As Jewish enclaves spring up around NYC, so does intolerance
By MARY ESCH and RYAN TARINELLI, MARY ESCH and RYAN TARINELLI, Associated Press
Published: January 2, 2020, 4:30pm
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In this Dec. 30, 2019, photo, Jewish girls walk to a bus in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York, for the trip to Monsey, N.Y. Monsey Trails commuter bus company offers daily service between Monsey, N.Y., and the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. With the rapid expansion of Orthodox communities outside New York City has come civic sparring, and some fear the recent violence in the area may be an outgrowth of that conflict. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Photo Gallery
MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) — For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust.
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