Greater New York Councils Queens and Genesis Rodriguez from the Bronx were appointed as the VOA's volunteer and staff advisers respectively. After bring appointed, the officers formed committees and began advocating for the creation of new Venturing crews in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. These boroughs became priorities because of the lack of a Venturing presence in those districts at the time. Greater New York Councils The Greater New York Councils (GNYC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves the New York City area. GNYC has a unique organization in that it is sub-divided into boroughs, led by a
Demographics of New York (state) those with roots in Caribbean Islands like Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Haiti, as well as recent immigrants from Sub-Saharan African countries. The Bronx has a large population of blacks that are of Latin American origin, but so does northern Manhattan (Harlem) and Brooklyn which had American-born black majorities since the 1920s, as well the largest African American population of any state. New York City has 1 million of New York State's 1.4 million Asian Americans. At 520,000 of New York State's over 600,000 Chinese Americans, New York City has a higher total number of Chinese Americans than Los Angeles