The Times notes that less than 3% of UES residents are non-Hispanic black people, and wonders why, unlike the fictional television character George Jefferson, more African Americans were not 'moving on up' to the East Side. Indeed, "a study of the country’s 100 largest metro areas, released last year by the Brookings Institution, found that the New York area was the second most segregated for black people." [NYT]
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