The Albanians are operating in the Bronx and the Russians in Coney Island. Damn close to my neighborhood, too damn close.
The Albanians are doing a good job of assimilating here in the Bronx. It's estimated that they own a full one third of the apartment buildings in the borough (and nearly 75 percent of the pizzerias, but that's another story all together).
They began as building superintendents back in the '70s and started buying up the apartment complexes dirt cheap when "white flight" was at its peak back in the '80s and '90s.
They're very shrewd, business minded people.
