Asians in New York City

Asians in New York City
Languages
	English, Mandarin (官話), Cantonese (廣東話), Fuzhounese (福州話), Bengali (বাংলা), Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), Hindi (हिन्दी), Tamil (தமிழ்), Telugu (తెలుగు), Tagalog, Urdu (اُردُو), Korean (한국어), Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), Thai (ภาษาไทย), Japanese (日本語), Khmer (ខ្មែរ), Hmong (𖬇𖬰𖬞 𖬌𖬣𖬵), Lao (ລາວ), and other Languages of Asia, as well as Spanish (español)
Religion
	Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism,Sikhism, Irreligion, Others
Related ethnic groups
	Asian Americans

Asians in New York City are residents of New York City of Asian descent or origin. New York City has one of the largest Asian American communities in the United States and of the Asian diaspora of any city in the world.

Population

New York City alone, according to the 2010 census, has now become home to more than one million Asian Americans, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles.^[2] New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper.^[3]

Chinese New Yorkers

In 2020, approximately 9% of New York City's population was of Chinese ethnicity, with about eighty percent of Chinese New Yorkers living in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn alone; New York City itself contains by far the highest ethnic Chinese population of any individual city outside Asia, estimated at 628,763 as of 2017.^[4] There is also a rising demand of Asian population choose to live in Long Island City.^[5] Much of the Chinese community lives in Chinatown, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Manhattan, Flushing, Queens, Long Island City, Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In September 2023, New York State made Lunar New Year a mandatory public school holiday.^[6]^[7]

South Asian New Yorkers

Indian and Indian Americans comprise the largest American municipal South Asian diaspora, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshi and Bangladeshi Americans and people of Pakistani heritage at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.^[8] Queens is over 8% South Asian; 6-7% Indian. Tompkinsville, Staten Island has many Sri Lankans. In 2023, New York State made Diwali a mandatory public school holiday.^[7]

Korean New Yorkers

People of Korean heritage made up 1.2% of the city's population. They are more commonly in Flushing and Koreatown, Manhattan.

Filipino New Yorkers

Filipino and Filipino Americans were the largest southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%. The community has a stronghold in Woodside, Queens. Around 13,000 Filipino Americans and immigrants live in this area, equating to 15% of Woodside's population.

Japanese New Yorkers

Japanese or Japanese American heritage people are 0.3% and mostly have a presence in Manhattan.

Vietnamese New Yorkers

People of Vietnamese heritage made up 0.2% of New York City's population in 2010.

Organizations and activism

One of the partner research centers of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium is based at the City University of New York. New York University hosts the Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies.^[9] "Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York" was an exhibition at Interference Archive from December 2013 to March 2014,^[10] supported by the Museum of Chinese in America.

Activist organizations:

Cultural organizations:

Asian American Arts Centre
Asian American Dance Theatre
Asian American International Film Festival
Asian American Writers' Workshop
Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
Asian American Arts Alliance
Happy Family Night Market

References

^ Jonathan H. X. Lee; Kathleen M. Nadeau (2011). Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. ABC-CLIO. pp. 333–334. ISBN 978-0-313-35066-5. Since the Philippines was colonized by Spain, Filipino Americans in general can speak and understand Spanish too.
^ Kirk Semple (June 23, 2011). "Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers". The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2011. Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city's kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in the spring, their numbers have topped one million—nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers—which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined.
^ "Asian American Statistics". Améredia Incorporated. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
^ "ACS DEMOGRAPHIC AND HOUSING ESTIMATES 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates Chinese alone - New York City, New York". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
^ Hong, Nicole (2021-10-18). "Inside the N.Y.C. Neighborhood With the Fastest Growing Asian Population". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
^ David Robinson (September 11, 2023). "NY makes Asian Lunar New Year a public school holiday. When is it in 2024?". USA TODAY Network. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
^ ^a ^b SANDRA ESCALLÓN and TELEMUNDO 47 (December 26, 2023). "These NY and NJ laws will take effect in 2024". NBC New York. Retrieved December 26, 2023. New school holidays Hochul signed legislation to declare Asian Lunar New Year a public school holiday across New York State. Legislation (A.7768/S.7573) would ensure schools are not in session on Lunar New Year, underscoring Hochul's commitment to supporting and protecting New York's AAPI community. The Democrat also signed legislation that makes Diwali a school holiday for New York City public schools. Legislation S.7574/A.7769 requires that all public schools in New York City be closed on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Indian calendar in each year, which is known as Diwali.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Table SF1-P9 NYC: Total Asian Population by Selected Subgroups" (PDF). NYC.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 5, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
^ "Asian/Pacific/American Studies". apa.as.nyu.edu.
^ "Interference Archive - Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York". interferencearchive.org.

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