Asians in New York City

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.

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]

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]

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]

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

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

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

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:

• Asian American Federation of New York
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Asian Americans for Equality
• MinKwon Center for Community Action

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

• Bangladeshis in New York City
• Chinese people in New York City
• Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area
• Fuzhounese in New York City
• Indians in the New York City metropolitan area
• Japanese in New York City
• Korean Americans in New York City
• List of U.S. cities with significant Chinese-American populations
• List of U.S. cities with significant Korean-American populations
• Taiwanese people in New York City

• "Asian Americans, New York City." Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Ed. Richard T. Schaefer. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2008. 97–98. ISBN 9781412926942