Why do Dominicans own so many Corner Stores in NYC

[truth2you]

we send money back to DR. The money made here is light but you send that back to DR you can live comfy. Many people who come here just make money to send it back and get shyt right over there. So yeah there are those here who are broke but you ask them, they wouldn't know it because what they got here is such an upgrade to what they left behind.

Those who DO live here and make it, they're creeping into suburbs now and looking to stay there. The ones who don't stay in the same neighborhoods forever and good luck moving them out. That's why when Dominicans come in, they put their roots down and stay there.

Give it 10 years and you'll see many of us out in suburban Jersey

I think the Dominicans better use the money to build up ALL of D.R. because America is about to go through some hard times, at least for the average non-white. If I'm right, I think Dominicans better start trying to come together with black americans, and West Indians, because being separated is gonna make it hard on themselves. The reason I say black americans is because its so much of us throughout the country, there is power in numbers, and a lot of Dominicans still pass for black, so doing business with us will keep yall afloat.

With West Indians it's the same thing being that a lot of Dominicans want to go to places like Miami, and parts of Queens, West Indians got a good hold in these places, and the poverty isn't all bad, being that west indians put a lot into education, which was the new game of the 80's-90's, and that helped them get a foot hold in acquiring money for business. Mixing with them can help the Dominican community as well.

I just think new strategies have to be developed now, the old way of just sticking to yourself, and using small business to come up is damn near done with, at least for us. These major corporations are stomping out independent, small businesses, and the government is allowing it. We HAVE to find ways to come together, and use each other's positives, or we all are gonna sink. Whites in power aint sharing anything, anymore, and a lot of them could care less about our conditions like they did in the 70's-early 2000's. I feel they got jealous, because of watching tv, and thinking we were doing better then we really were, while a lot of them started to struggle. Remember, most of them don't interact with us, so they already have negative thoughts on us due to the news, but when reality tv started having "real housewives", rappers wearing high end jewerly/cars, and regular people driving nice cars, they truly believe we used the system to make it. The problem is they have republicans who will do things to make it harder for us(which is about to start), while we have democrats who aint doing shyt to fight back, they are worried about people in other countries.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Hell no

nikka are you ME?
NO.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Why do Arabs own so many Corner Stores in NYC

because Habib sold the dream to his akhis.

 

[SomeoneFromThePast]

Just like @September said it's just a mirroring of back home. There's colmados everywhere so it's natural for us to get into the same shyt here. That plus hair salons and barbershops, auto shops all over Webster and Jerome in the bx, most of the livery cab bases, and a shyt load of bakeries and restaurants. We just in it to win it and keep those remittances going back home

The same exact thing i was thinking while watching this mini documentary. If you go to Santo Domingo you will notice "colmados" everywhere, the same with hair salons and barbershops, basically in every corner.

The "auto repuestos" and "auto repair" shops are also everywhere in Santo Domingo. Mostly selling used car parts.

The colmados are basically the same thing as NY bodegas, only difference is that in DR they are a bit more alcohol centered than NY bodegas.

But in DR there's another business that is even more numerous than the "colmados"... That business is the lottery numbers business!!! In DR they call it "banca de lotería" or "Lottery Banks" in english.

Its basically a small mini store where you buy lottery tickets, and those are in every colmado, but they also exist on their own... They are literally everywhere in DR. In my block alone, there are 2 bancas like 20 meters away from each other. It's that bad!!

They get robbed at gun point all the time also, because they make so much cash!!

 

[SomeoneFromThePast]

Point is, its the kind of business dominicans are familiar with, so they go with that.

 

[Real N Quotes]

And s

 

[BigMan]

The same exact thing i was thinking while watching this mini documentary. If you go to Santo Domingo you will notice "colmados" everywhere, the same with hair salons and barbershops, basically in every corner.

The "auto repuestos" and "auto repair" shops are also everywhere in Santo Domingo. Mostly selling used car parts.

The colmados are basically the same thing as NY bodegas, only difference is that in DR they are a bit more alcohol centered than NY bodegas.

But in DR there's another business that is even more numerous than the "colmados"... That business is the lottery numbers business!!! In DR they call it "banca de lotería" or "Lottery Banks" in english.

Its basically a small mini store where you buy lottery tickets, and those are in every colmado, but they also exist on their own... They are literally everywhere in DR. In my block alone, there are 2 bancas like 20 meters away from each other. It's that bad!!

They get robbed at gun point all the time also, because they make so much cash!!

We haveloterries shacks/markets/stores everywhere in Aruba like that too. We just call them lotto

 

[x2y]

Why do Arabs own so many Corner Stores in NYC

They own all the Subways, Popeyes, Burger Kings, Texas Chickens, Delis... I been saying they taking over.

 

[mson]

They own all the Subways, Popeyes, Burger Kings, Texas Chickens, Delis... I been saying they taking over.

What's up with all those Texas Chickens popping up in the hood?

 

[AB Ziggy]

What's up with all those Texas Chickens popping up in the hood?

I don't know why they're popping up the past few years but I gotta admit their chicken is compared to Crown/Kennedy Fried chicken

 

[mson]

I don't know why they're popping up the past few years but I gotta admit their chicken is compared to Crown/Kennedy Fried chicken

I disagree. I think it's the other way around. The flavor is a bit more bland to me.

 

[3rdWorld]

Because brehs have allowed it..at their own expense

 

[x2y]

What's up with all those Texas Chickens popping up in the hood?

I don't even know they just started popping up about a year or two ago. I gotta agree with AB Ziggy the couple times I had it was better than Crown and Kennedy.

 

[beanz]

But that's why i ask, where is the money going?

If they are making money that is unseen, shouldn't it be put into some type of ownership. I know the home ownership rate is the lowest for all latins.

i'm not trying to shyt on dominicans, I see them as my cousins, and want better for them as well, but to fix problems you have to be honest with the situation you're in.

DR like somebody said. Dominicans that work off the books are usually the ones sending the chunk of it back home. My town where I was born, for example, went from a farming town with dirt roads to paved streets, multiple schools, and even an ambulance that people bought and sent over after a fundraiser.

the fax of the matter is that all other black immigrant groups outpace dominicans when it comes to educational and economic attainment. funny since they pretend they are better than black folks

Source?

 

[BigMan]

DR like somebody said. Dominicans that work off the books are usually the ones sending the chunk of it back home. My town where I was born, for example, went from a farming town with dirt roads to paved streets, multiple schools, and even an ambulance that people bought and sent over after a fundraiser.



Source?

List of ethnic groups in the United States by household income - Wikipedia
Hispanics of Dominican Origin in the United States, 2010
Chapter 1: Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Black Immigrant Population
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/nny2013/nny_2013.pdf
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/dominicans-puerto-ricans-poverty-_n_2734117.html

In cities or places with large populations of Dominicans, poverty rates for this group ranged from 43.2 percent to 10.0 percent (Figure 12). Poverty was around 30.0 percent or greater in 8 of the 20 places most populated by Dominicans (Boston, Massachusetts; Lawrence, Massachusetts; Lynn, Massachusetts; New York, New York; Passaic, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; and Reading, Pennsylvania).

https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf