I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is notoriously known to be a dirty crime filled city, but that is not is how a citizen of Brooklyn looks at it. I see Brooklyn as my hometown and over the past forty to fifty years many different types of people came to my neighborhood. I live in a Jewish Community that was first created in the 1960’s for Syrian Jewish Immigrants. So ever since the community was first started, the size has been increasing. I also notice a major increase in Italian population in Brooklyn.
As time goes on every area changes and people will always move. I don’t think i see any resemblance of the change in my community to the writings of Binder other than the fact of immigrant waves coming and settling in to a new place. 
Jack, it’s funny that you say how you notice an influx of Italian people in your Jewish community. Following this same immigration trend, as my parents grew up in Manhattan, they too noticed and increase in a certain immigrant group. Jews and Italians, since the beginning of the immigration waves have inhabited the same areas and even replaced one another. Based on our discussion today in class, we concluded that our families settled in the same areas. i find it especially interesting that my family in Brooklyn, mainly Bensonhurst, have shared real estate with people of Jewish descent. This also holds true for my family members in Manhattan and other parts of Brooklyn.