Editing Washington Heights, Manhattan (section)

====Immigration trends====
For the remainder of the 20th century, the Dominican community of Washington Heights continued to increase considerably, most notably during the mid to late 1980s, when over 40,000 Dominicans settled in Washington Heights, [[Hamilton Heights]], and [[Inwood, Manhattan|Inwood]].<ref name=Quisqueya/>{{Rp|30}} Around the year 2000, the Dominican community reached its peak and became a slim majority of Washington Heights and Inwood,<ref name=Bergad>{{cite book|title=Washington Heights/Inwood Demographic, Economic, and Social Transformations 1990 – 2005 with a Special Focus on the Dominican Population|first=Laird|last=Bergad|author-link=Laird Bergad|url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=clacls_pubs|publisher=Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, [[CUNY Graduate Center]]|year=2008|access-date=February 3, 2021}}</ref>{{Rp|10}} propelling the neighborhoods' combined population to 208,000, the highest level since 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p1_cd.pdf|title=Table PL-P1 CD: Total Population New York City Community Districts 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010|publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|date=July 2011|access-date=February 3, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/historical-population/pop_density_1950_2010.pdf|title=1950 to 2010 Population Density by Census Tract|access-date=February 3, 2021|publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]}}</ref>

Even as they arrived in great numbers, Dominicans who came to the neighborhood faced a difficult economic situation, with many of the manufacturing jobs they disproportionately occupied having disappeared throughout the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=dominicanprofile1990/> This was clear by 1990, when the proportion of Dominican New Yorkers living in households below the poverty line was 36%, more than double the citywide rate.<ref name=dominicanprofile1990/>{{Rp|19}} In addition to service work, many residents found local jobs in the small-scale garment sector and factory work in [[New Jersey]].<ref name=CB/>{{Rp|140}}<ref name=Quisqueya/>{{Rp|37}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/26/business/resurgence-of-sweatshops-reported-in-new-york.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 31, 2021|date=February 26, 1981|title=Resurgence of Sweatshops Reported in New York|first=Sandra|last=Salmans}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/nyregion/neighborhood-report-washington-heights-buzz-for-dominicans-minimum-wage-maximum.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 31, 2021|title=Neighborhood Report: Washington Heights – Buzz; For Dominicans, Minimum Wage, Maximum Uncertainty|first=Seth|last=Kugel|date=September 5, 1999}}</ref>

During the late 20th century, other immigrant groups began to make their home in the neighborhood as well. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a moderate influx of [[Soviet Jew]]s occurred following a loosening of the country's emigration policy,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gold|first=Steven J.|author-link=Steven J. Gold|year=1994|title=Soviet Jews in the United States|url=https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/94so/94soviet.pdf|pages=3–57|publisher=[[American Jewish Committee]]|volume=94|doi=10.2307/2547125|journal=[[American Jewish Year Book]]|jstor=2547125|access-date=February 3, 2021}}</ref>{{Rp|17}} predominantly professionals and artists pushed out by [[antisemitism]] and drawn by economic opportunity.<ref name=CB/>{{Rp|138}} The makeup of the neighborhood's Latino population also began to diversify beyond an exclusively [[Caribbean]] background, most prominently through the arrival of [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]]s and [[Ecuadorian Americans|Ecuadorian]]s, who together numbered over 6,000 by 2000 and over 10,000 a decade later.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/nny2000/newest_new_yorkers_2000.pdf|title=The Newest New Yorkers 2000|date=2004|publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|access-date=February 3, 2021}}</ref>{{Rp|70}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/nny2013/chapter3.pdf|title=The Newest New Yorkers, 2013 Edition|date=2013|publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|access-date=February 3, 2021}}</ref>{{Rp|49}}

Smaller communities of [[Central American]]s, [[Colombian Americans|Colombian]]s, and [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]] immigrants had also developed.<ref name=acsfactfinder2020/> The neighborhood's African-American population began to decrease from its height in the 1970s, making up less than one-tenth of the neighborhood by 2000.<ref name=CB/>{{Rp|138}}<ref name=PLP3A>[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010], Population Division – [[New York City Department of City Planning]], March 29, 2011. Retrieved June 14, 2016.</ref> In the present day, Washington Heights also has an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] community served by numerous [[synagogue]]s, many of which have noticed more young Jewish families move into the neighborhood during the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131104/washington-heights/washington-heights-jewish-population-thriving-after-lean-years/|first=Lindsay|last=Armstrong|access-date=March 30, 2021|title=Washington Heights' Jewish Population Thriving After Lean Years|work=[[DNAinfo]]|date=November 4, 2013|archive-date=January 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123204341/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131104/washington-heights/washington-heights-jewish-population-thriving-after-lean-years/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/washington-heights-jews-caught-in-a-growth-bind/|first=Rivka|last=Oppenheim|access-date=March 30, 2021|title=Washington Heights Jews Caught In A Growth Bind|work=[[New York Jewish Week]]|date=August 11, 2010}}</ref>