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We've done tons of census race-data maps before, but this one at Webfoot is particularly well-built. One thing we learned right away: not too many Native American neighborhoods in the five-boroughs. There are, however, at least six high-density Asian spots. We've identified three-- can you name the rest? [Related: if you have Google Earth, Goth reader Phillip Gross suggests this cool census data overlay for similar information goodness.]
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That's not Bayridge they live in, that's Sunset Park.
Ugh, its not Sunset Park either. That's more Gravesend/Sheepshead Bay
That area in Queens before flushing looks like Woodside.
Looks like a little sliver in/near K-Town.
You can find much better maps reflecting patterns of current Asian settlement at the Dept. of City Planning website (www.nyc.gov/planning)
does this include brown asians or only yellow ones?
Yep, Sheepshead Bay, around Avenue U on the Q line specifically, which is much more pleasant to shop than Chinatown - alot less congestion. Too bad Ocean Palace closed.
paki, only east asians i think, because we know that if south asians were in the mix, jackson heights would be burning a bright red hole in the map.
The area to the west of Flushing Meadow Park is Elmhurst.
Surprisingly, many Asians live directly in the East River. And in other news, Jersey City is one of the five boroughs.
paki and ajit -
i'm pretty sure that bright red hole west of flushing IS jackson hts/woodside, as john pointed out.
k, the spot to the west of flushing is not "jackson hts/woodside" its Elmhurst...
I vote elmhurst more than woodside, the map gets really chinese around grand ave. Plus, I live there.
Dave - the Asians living directly in the East River must be "boat people"..
No, anti-, you're looking at spot with the arrow and the question mark, the one that's circled. I'm looking at the one labeled "Bayridge" that isn't circled. Ugh, yourself.
Pop Pop's right, thats Sunset Park. Anyone who's ever lived in SP knows about the huge Asian population there.
In Queens, that's Elmhurst, 60% immigrants, many from East and Southeast Asia. Best Indonesian and Malaysian restaurants in NYC.
In Jersey, that looks like Jersey City.
About the Asians living in the river -- I'm the developer of the maps, and I can tell you that census boundaries don't all ways respect geography. Sometimes they draw the tract so that it doesn't cross water, sometimes they don't. From the Census Bureau's point of view, it's an administrative boundary only: they count all the people in that tract. If there don't happen to be any people in a big part of the tract, no importa.
The area around Avenue U in Brooklyn is sometimes called Brooklyn's Chinatown. There are a lot of Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants, groceries, computer stores, herbalists, etc.
Here's a typical row of storefronts. Dr. Poon's is probably asked what kind of a doctor he is a lot.
There's even what looks like a garment factory on E17th. It's been there for years.
Technically the area spans both Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay.
The spot in Brooklyn along Avenue U and the Brighton Line (Q train) is called Homecrest.
(This is the developer again.) As to the question of whether "Asian" includes South Asian as well as East Asian, I am not sure. It depends upon either 1) how people filling out the Census form respond or 2) how the Census Bureau groups people.
There is a category "Other Race" that I didn't make an option on the map (hmm, maybe I should) but that you can get to via this link:
http://webfoot.com/maps/CensusOverlays.html?column=10&normalizer=P&title=none+of+above&min=0&max=1&long=-73.8995361328125&lat=40.70718949655447&zoom=11
BTW, my ISP is being strange. I'd prefer to use maps.webfoot.com, and that worked yesterday and most of today, but RIGHT NOW it isn't, so I've temporarily gone back to webfoot.com/maps. Sigh.
i think you know the asian spots when the dollar vans ($2 now) congregate.
? = jersey city?
elmhurst, mill basin, jersey city