Editing Brooklyn (section)

====Hispanic American====
{{further|Puerto Ricans in New York City|Nuyorican}}
In the aftermath of [[World War II]] and subsequent [[urban renewal]] initiatives that decimated longtime Manhattan enclaves (most notably on the [[Upper West Side]]), Puerto Rican migrants began to settle in such waterfront industrial neighborhoods as [[Sunset Park, Brooklyn|Sunset Park]], [[Red Hook, Brooklyn|Red Hook]] and [[Gowanus, Brooklyn|Gowanus]], near the shipyards and factories where they worked. The borough's Hispanic population diversified after the 1965 [[Hart-Cellar Act]] loosened restrictions on immigration from elsewhere in Latin America.

[[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]] has since emerged as the largest hub of Brooklyn's [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic American]] community. Like other Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City, Bushwick has an established [[Stateside Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] presence, along with an influx of many [[Dominican Americans|Dominicans]], [[South America]]ns, [[Central America]]ns and [[Mexican Americans|Mexicans]]. As nearly 80% of Bushwick's population is Hispanic, its residents have created many businesses to support their various national and distinct traditions in food and other items. Sunset Park's population is 42% Hispanic, made up of these various ethnic groups. Brooklyn's main Hispanic groups are Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Dominicans and [[Ecuadorian Americans|Ecuadorians]]; they are spread out throughout the borough. Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are predominant in Bushwick, [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]]'s South Side and East New York. Mexicans (especially from the state of [[Puebla]]) now predominate alongside Chinese immigrants in Sunset Park, although remnants of the neighborhood's once-substantial postwar Puerto Rican and Dominican communities continue to reside below 39th Street. Save for Red Hook (which remained roughly one-fifth Hispanic American as of the 2010 Census), the South Side and Sunset Park, similar postwar communities in other waterfront neighborhoods—including western Park Slope, the north end of Greenpoint,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://greenpointers.com/2018/11/02/puerto-ricans-vibrant-history-in-north-brooklyn/|title=Puerto Ricans' Vibrant History in North Brooklyn|date=November 2, 2018|website=Greenpointers}}</ref> and [[Boerum Hill]], long considered the northern subsection of Gowanus—largely disappeared by the turn of the century due to various factors, including deindustrialization, ensuing gentrification and suburbanization among more affluent Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. A Panamanian enclave exists in [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]].