response to 1990 2006 Written within the same article of blacks no longer a majority There blacks account for 6 in 10 residents BUT THOSE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES MAKE UP BARELY HALF OF ALL RESIDENTS Since 2000 the proportion of whites living there has more than doubled to more than one in 10 residents the highest since the 1940s THE HISPANIC POPULATION WHICH WAS CONCENTRATED IN EAST HARLEM IS NOW AT AN ALL TIME HIGH IN CENTRAL HARLEM UP 27 PERCENT SINCE 2000 Again within the same article About 15 percent of Harlem s black population is foreign born mostly from the Caribbean WITH A GROWING NUMBER FROM AFRICA Also within the article Some experts say the decline in the black population may be overstated because poorer people are typically undercounted by the census and Harlem has a disproportionate number of poor people Other analysts point to the outflow of some blacks and the influx of others as positive evidence that barriers to integration have fallen in other neighborhoods and that Harlem has become a more attractive place to live It s a mistake to see this only as a story of racial change said Scott M Stringer the Manhattan borough president What s interesting is that many African Americans are living in Harlem by choice not necessity Andrew A Beveridge a sociologist at Queens College said Harlem has become as it was in the early 1930s a predominantly black neighborhood but with other groups living there as well