Map of the Day: Where the Asians At?

elmhurst, mill basin, jersey city

? = jersey city?

i think you know the asian spots when the dollar vans ($2 now) congregate.

(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.

The spot in Brooklyn along Avenue U and the Brighton Line (Q train) is called Homecrest.

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.

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.

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.

Pop Pop's right, thats Sunset Park. Anyone who's ever lived in SP knows about the huge Asian population there.

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.

Dave - the Asians living directly in the East River must be "boat people"..

I vote elmhurst more than woodside, the map gets really chinese around grand ave. Plus, I live there.

k, the spot to the west of flushing is not "jackson hts/woodside" its Elmhurst...

paki and ajit -

i'm pretty sure that bright red hole west of flushing IS jackson hts/woodside, as john pointed out.

Surprisingly, many Asians live directly in the East River. And in other news, Jersey City is one of the five boroughs.

The area to the west of Flushing Meadow Park is Elmhurst.

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.

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.

does this include brown asians or only yellow ones?

You can find much better maps reflecting patterns of current Asian settlement at the Dept. of City Planning website (www.nyc.gov/planning)

Looks like a little sliver in/near K-Town.

That area in Queens before flushing looks like Woodside.

Ugh, its not Sunset Park either. That's more Gravesend/Sheepshead Bay

That's not Bayridge they live in, that's Sunset Park.