For the first time, Asians in New York City, according to census figures released this spring, number more than 1 million, nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers, according to an article in today's edition of The New York Times by Kirk Semple.
"Not so long ago, the phrase 'New York's Chinatown' meant one thing: a district in Lower Manhattan near Canal Street. How it could refer to as many as six heavily Chinese enclaves....The city has spawned neighborhoods with nicknames like Little Bangladesh, Little Pakistan, Little Manila and Little Tokyo," the article said.
"Many leaders have seized on the one-million figure as a fresh reason for immigrants and their descendants who hail from across the Asian continent to think of themselves as one people with a common cause -in the same way that many people from Spanish-speaking cultures have come to embrace the broad terms Latino and Hispanic," the article said.
The article said that the census figures show "a striking 32 percent increase in New York's Asian population since 2000, making it the city's fastest-growing racial group by far,"" adding that "the Hispanic population grew only 8 percent during that time, while the ranks of non-Hispanic whites declined 3 percent and blacks declined 5 percent."
The article indicated the "fastest-growing Indian neighborhoods" are in Richmond Hill and Ozone Park in Queens and "an established Chinese community in Sunset Park has spread south and east to Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Homecrest" Brooklyn and a Bangladeshi community has grown up in Kensington, Brooklyn. It also noted that Koreans are growing in Woodside and Filipinos in Woodside and Elmhurst Queens.
"Not so long ago, the phrase 'New York's Chinatown' meant one thing: a district in Lower Manhattan near Canal Street. How it could refer to as many as six heavily Chinese enclaves....The city has spawned neighborhoods with nicknames like Little Bangladesh, Little Pakistan, Little Manila and Little Tokyo," the article said.
"Many leaders have seized on the one-million figure as a fresh reason for immigrants and their descendants who hail from across the Asian continent to think of themselves as one people with a common cause -in the same way that many people from Spanish-speaking cultures have come to embrace the broad terms Latino and Hispanic," the article said.
The article said that the census figures show "a striking 32 percent increase in New York's Asian population since 2000, making it the city's fastest-growing racial group by far,"" adding that "the Hispanic population grew only 8 percent during that time, while the ranks of non-Hispanic whites declined 3 percent and blacks declined 5 percent."
The article indicated the "fastest-growing Indian neighborhoods" are in Richmond Hill and Ozone Park in Queens and "an established Chinese community in Sunset Park has spread south and east to Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Homecrest" Brooklyn and a Bangladeshi community has grown up in Kensington, Brooklyn. It also noted that Koreans are growing in Woodside and Filipinos in Woodside and Elmhurst Queens.
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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