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The vibrant history of Jamaica

Today Jamaica is very lively and exciting. People went these streets like bees from the very first sun rays hits the street. From four in the morning, delivery trucks starts to flood the streets. To deliver all kinds of goods that provides necessity (from newspapers to food supply) to keep this street running like a well oiled machine. At six in the morning public transportation starts to claim the street for workers and students. After six you will see Jamaica swirling with life. We’ll see different kinds of people live friendly from all over parts of the world. The peaceful existence of unique people makes us appreciate the simple and good things in life.
However Jamaica Avenue wasn’t like this colorful street that most people to come to love back sixty years ago. Jamaica avenue was not as progressive back then. To illustrate the desperate and dramatic transformation of this interesting district. It is necessary to go back fifty to sixty years ago and explore the history of the street. Compare the lives of the community who lived back in
1950s to the current time
Jamaica was one of the original Dutch settlements in New York. A collection of different ethnicity in central Queens. It was once called “Jamaica.” In early 1980s and late 1990s Jamaica become the major attraction for immigrant to come to New York. Moreover, there were different landmarks and structures that were still remain or vanished and some makes improvements and developments. (K. Jackson 668.) After the World War II when times gone by population increased from 1,550,849 up to 19,368,102 people living in Jamaica as of 2010 (ESD.NY.com)
In early 50’s Jamaica was almost whites and Irish immigrants, when 1960s come blacks started to moving in and whites started to move out. In late 1980s and early 1990s Jamaica diverse. As we were living in diverse country the immigrants spread in different parts of New
York. In Queens County Back in the 1950s and

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