Chinese Americans in New York City

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.