There is a recent problem that has been bothering me for a while. I continue to hear about the gentrification of New York City, but I never understood how it began. However, Joe Salvo’s data has brought some light into the sudden changes to the cultural melting pot of New York City. NYC has always been known as a city where immigrants thrived. With the Statue of Liberty as our symbol, the continual richness of culture has remained. Yet, in the past few years, Harlem, Bed-Stuy, and Chinatown have all suffered from cultural gentrification. Looking at Salvo’s data, over the past few years, more people from within, instead of outside of America have immigrated to New York City. This struck me as an important point that could be the reason for the cultural deconstruction. With the recent decline in support for foreign immigration less immigrants reside in NYC. The economic issues also pushes for a nation to support its own people, particularly wealthy ones. This explains the increased amount of inner immigration to NYC. But, by choosing to maintain the economic stature of NYC, the cultural ideas of the slums have disappeared. The cultural identities of those foreign immigrants have now been eradicated, erasing a part of NYC’s diversity and uniqueness.