TRINIDADIANS and Tobagonians have helped to expand the population of the borough of Brooklyn in New York over the past decade.
Brooklyn, according to a brand-new countrywide survey, is the second fastest-growing community in the United States.
The population has risen over the past 10 years by 235,000 people – nine per cent – to 2.74 million, and is larger than Chicago, according to the survey.
A total of 28 per cent of Brooklyn’s population is Black, with many residents coming from the Caribbean.
T&T’s exact contribution to the latest population growth has not been identified, but that city is a historically popular haven for T&T emigrants.
Some Trinidadians and Tobagonians moved to Brooklyn in the 1940s and 1950s to fill available jobs, and there has since been a steady stream of migrants.
There are second and third-generation American citizens in Brooklyn of T&T-born parentage.
Queens, another borough in which there are T&T-born migrants, has added 175,000 people over the past decade, and now has a population of 2.41 million.
New York’s total population is now 8.8 million people.
There is rapid growth and increasing diversity throughout the state, the survey found.
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