Racial segregation in New York City is a result of income inequalities, pre-existing communal reputations and a lack of social mobility. Income inequalities can be seen through such matrices as the housing price affordability, accessibility of a higher education and usage of public welfare. These are good indicators of how income is unequal for different races throughout the city. Moreover, many boroughs of the city have been subjected, over many decades, to prejudices giving them a defined character and exclusivity, which may not be based on empirical evidence such as government statistics or credible research. Lastly, there is less than ideal social mobility within those boroughs that leads to a vicious cycle of the aforementioned being
