Amy

Just a girl up against algos & market makers | SPX & swings | Iranian by way of Germany | the world is too beautiful not to pay attention. stay curious 🩷

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

I just hope I see this same passion and energy to protect and honor immigrant enclaves when ICE comes to raid them. Something tells me I won’t!

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@kasumiga1 A few luxury blocks can't keep our city's economy afloat. Also just look at the data. Most arrivals don’t qualify for benefits, they are the backbone of the city's actual labor force. No freeloading there. It’s mostly our own citizens who get the welfare benefits

[Amy @amyjoon_]

People melting down that Mamdani’s ‘immigrant enclaves’ post skipped Little Italy are wild. I bet you there are ZERO Italy-born residents living in Little Italy. It’s a theme park for tourists and a great place to get cannoli. It is not an immigrant enclave.

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@MinusAquinas If you go to Park Hill on Staten Island today, you’ll find the largest Liberian community outside of Africa. No?

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@PTeacherUSA @SpiritualGanstr Who do you think is on the ladders building the high-rises, paving the roads, working the fields, and running the logistics keeping this country moving? They are overwhelmingly working-class immigrants doing the heaviest physical labor in the economy.

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@PTeacherUSA @haysoner98 Imagine typing out a whole paragraph just to announce you’re completely miserable and left behind by the modern world. Take care!

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@kasumiga1 @HastonAnge24203 Agree. Bloomberg years were definitely a peak. But that boom was built by the newer immigrants who spent the 80s and 90s reviving dead neighborhoods and opening businesses. Even Bloomberg constantly said they were the engine keeping the city running.

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@kasumiga1 @HastonAnge24203 Fair point. But NYC wasn't a finished perfect product. In the 70s the city was practically bankrupt and whole neighborhoods were abandoned. It’s the new arrivals that are providing the literal muscle keeping NYC alive right now, just like the Irish and Italians did a century ago

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@theanalysis78 @HastonAnge24203

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@heathlo27 No one is erasing the Italians who built this city, that history is permanent. But if you look at the actual data, new Italian immigrants aren't the ones moving there today. And if you think a community is exactly the same as it was 100 years ago, you don't know New York

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@OfHomoSapiens @22Lamb22 I literally live in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city. I love and respect NYC history, but I also see how it’s actively changing outside my front door every day. True NYC history is a constant wave of shifting demographics. But sure, I'll walk on.

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@RevSteveNYC There’s still a difference between a neighborhood that has kept its traditional culture alive for generations and a neighborhood where new immigrants are just arriving to build a life today. Both are important but they do different things

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@lownormal Fair point. But the argument people are making is "why is Little Palestine on here instead of Little Italy?" And the answer to that specific is still demographics. One is a living immigrant community infrastructure; the other is a historic tribute to the community that built it

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@haysoner98 Exactly

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@MinusAquinas If we map based on who "traditionally" lived somewhere, the map becomes completely stagnant. The families who built those historic neighborhoods moved to the suburbs decades ago. The map is trying to show where working-class immigrants are actively settling in 2026

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@kasumiga1 @HastonAnge24203 Care to elaborate?

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@JHWeissmann Idk I live in Astoria and I love its Greek roots, but I just don’t see it as an "immigrant enclave" where current, Greek-born immigrants are actively settling and building new lives today. There are way more Arabs, Brazilians, and Balkan immigrants moving here

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@SpiritualGanstr You’re looking for a heritage map, that’s not what this is. An enclave is where working-class immigrants are actively settling and building lives today. No one is erasing history

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@HastonAnge24203 Every wave of immigrants helps build this city, from the Italians a century ago to the new arrivals today. I don’t get your point. An enclave is a living, breathing neighborhood, not a historic tourist district

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@MinusAquinas It literally is. We have one of the highest concentrations of Palestinians in the US, there. Have you ever walked down 5th Ave in Bay Ridge? It’s a textbook living immigrant enclave.

[Amy @amyjoon_]

@22Lamb22 Name doesn’t change the lack of an active immigrant community. Nobody is actually moving there from Italy in 2026, I don’t understand why this is even a discussion