Asian Americans in New York City

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Asian Americans in New York City represent the largest Asian American population of any city in the United States.

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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. New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper. In 2010, 6.0% of New York City was of Chinese ethnicity, with about forty percent of Chinese New Yorkers living in the borough of Queens alone. People of Korean heritage made up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese or Japanese American heritage 0.3%. Filipino and Filipino Americans were the largest southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%, followed by people of Vietnamese heritage, who made up 0.2% of New York City's population in 2010. Indian and Indian Americans comprise the largest South Asian group, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshi and Bagladeshi Americans and people of Pakistani heritage at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.

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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.

"Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York" was an exhibition at Interference Archive from December 2013 - March 2014, supported by the Museum of Chinese in America.

Activist organizations:

• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Cultural organizations:

• Asian American Arts Centre
• Asian American Dance Theatre
• Asian American International Film Festival
• Asian American Writers' Workshop
• Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival

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See also

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

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References

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Further reading

• "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

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