A Building, and a City, as a Way Station to a Better Life

This piece explains how immigrants move from one city to another, the same as many other Americans. They first move to areas with other immigrants and then, as they are more assimilated, they move to another area. - - Donna Poisl

by KIRK SEMPLE

For two years, a five-story walk-up apartment building in the Bronx has served as a small beachhead for a new immigrant community: refugee families from the South Asian nation of Bhutan. From this new home on University Avenue, where they were placed by a resettlement agency, the families have made their first, tentative steps in an unfamiliar culture and language.

But now they are on the move again. In the year since The New York Times profiled the building and the eight Bhutanese families who were living there, four of the families have left for other states — Virginia, Pennsylvania, Vermont and North Carolina — and most members of a fifth have moved to Albany.
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