I dunno. I grew up in Queens, the other side of Queens, but Queens was Archie Bunker country then. Corona was pretty Hispanic by 1970, and Elmhurst the most "diverse" zip code in the country (if not the world). But it was safe, people were church going (unlike Archie) and families were close. It has become a cesspool. But everyone I went to high school with wanted to get out were it was less crowded and congested, where driving to the grocery store did not entail a traffic jam. We were part of the post-World War II migration.
My family name traces to a Huguenot settler in New Netherlands in 1664. My patronymic great-great-grandfather was a police captain in Manhattan during the Civil War. We abandoned New York, and the newcomers have more or less destroyed it.