The
New York metropolitan area is home to the largest ethnic
Chinese population outside of Asia, constituting the largest metropolitan
Asian American group in the United States and the largest Asian-national metropolitan
diaspora in the
Western Hemisphere, enumerating an estimated 819,527 uniracial individuals as of 2014 – including at least 12 Chinatowns – six (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in
Corona and
Whitestone,
Queens, and
East Harlem,
Manhattan) in
New York City proper, and one each in
Nassau County,
Long Island;
Edison,
New Jersey; and
Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, not to mention fledgling ethnic Chinese enclaves emerging throughout the New York City metropolitan region, such as
China City of America in
Sullivan County,
New York and
Dragon Springs in
Deerpark,
Orange County, New York – with this community rising rapidly in population as well as economic and political influence.