Reply #164: The upper west side I will operationally define as.... [View All]

[Smarmie Doofus]

.... 59th to 96th street from CPW to Riverside Drive. There are very few non-whites, as a % of the total population, in residence on the UWS. If I am wrong.... please tell me where the non-white residents are being hidden.

There are many nonwhites who go to school, shop and work ( largely retail) on the UWS and go home to other sections of the city. The typical UWSer, in my observation ( as an outsider, BTW) has contact with these folks but it is generally of a fleeting nature.

The gist of the anti-Seinfeld sentiment expressed here seems to be that the *regulars* on the show... not the bit characters, eg, librarians, dry-cleaning clerks who are often nonwhite.... are overwhelmingly white. I'm sorry, my experience is that this is pretty accurate. Most UWSiders socialize and affiliate withe other UWSiders, and not with people from the Bronx, for example. ( I'm from the Bronx, BTW).

>>>>So there is an undercurrent, and element of racism in the underlying principle.>>>

Ya lost me here; in the underlying principle of *what*?