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Examination of an Inner-City Community

This paper is a detailed examination of one inner-city community, Mott Haven, located in the Bronx, in New York City. This paper examines the demographics, recent historical shifts, and surrounding influences that shape and inform Mott Haven as a distinct entity. These elements include Mott Haven's geographic location within the Bronx and the ways in which this community has come to define itself. Mott Haven provides an example that is in many ways typical of an urban community in which poverty, crime, unemployment, and other social problems present the social welfare system with ongoing challenges which are not always met by existing policies, programs, and attitudes.

The Bronx, one of New York City's five boroughs, is located on Manhattan's northern peninsula, bounded by the Hudson River to the west and the East River, leading north to the Long Island Sound. The Bronx is separated from Manhattan at its southern end by the Harlem River, and Mott Haven is located along this river at the southeastern corner of the Bronx, across from East Harlem. Its northern borders touch Hunts Point, Morrisania, and Concourse/Highbridge. It is home to Yankee Stadium and its own community school district.

Mott Haven's total population, as of 1990, was 77,214; of these 33,277 were under 18. Approximately two thirds of the district is Latino and one third is black; the white population is negligible, as is the representation of Asians. More than a quarter of its elementary students have a limited proficiency in English. Mott Haven houses 11,885 children per square mile, placing it sixth in the Bronx and well above the average density for the borough as a whole (Woudstra, 1999, p. 156). Mott Haven is home to a substantial number of disadvantaged, at-risk, minority children with little access to the mainstream or the benefits of the larger society.

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