The history of Corona can be told through the lens of bocce, the lawn game that elderly Italian-Americans have spent their days playing for decades upon decades. As the area draws more Latino residents, they, too, are joining the ranks of the Queens neighborhood's intense regulars. "An influx of immigrants from South and Central America, coupled with a slow but sustained flight of residents to the suburbs, transformed the core of the neighborhood?not to mention its faces," Narratively writes. "What was once a completely Italian neighborhood is now less than ten percent white and over sixty percent Hispanic." The integration?both on the court and on the streets?is not without its struggles, but the game manages to trump some differences. [Narratively]
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