Indians in the New York City metropolitan area
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Indians in the New York City metropolitan area constitute one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnicities in the
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History
An Asian Indian presence in the New York area dates back to the 19th century, with Swami Vivekananda establishing the first Hindu institution in New York City in 1894 after the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago[8][9][10][11] and Bengali Muslim peddlers passing through immigration facilities in New York to head to Jersey Shore beach towns such as Asbury Park, Atlantic Park and Long Beach. These peddlers sold “Oriental” items like silks, small trinkets and other curios to tourists. Though most of these peddlers were transient seasonal workers at resorts, a small number of men stayed in New Jersey year-round to renew stocks of goods and shepherd younger traders from India to the US.[12] Bengali and other South Asian Muslims would also settle in New York City and marry into African American and Puerto Rican communities that they lived close to,[13] initially living in the Lower East Side but moving uptown into Harlem, opening some of the first Indian restaurants in New York.[14] After India become independent and partitioned, many of these men formed the Pakistan League of America in 1947.
The first Indian to become a
During 1960s and 1970s, Indians also set up several cultural and religious institutions based in New York City, though they drew people from the entire metropolitan area. The 1970s would also see the construction of the first houses of worship for Indian religions in New York City, such as the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing and the Sikh Cultural Society building a gurdwara at a former Baptist church in Richmond Hill. Other religious groups reappropriated other spaces in the city, such as Keralite Christians hosting Malayalam services in a Bronx church and Jains renting Manhattan office space. Indian would also form several associations based around linguistics groups. Indians in the New York-New Jersey area also started to create mass media organizations in the 1970s, including newspapers such as India Abroad, the first television show targeted towards Indian Americans, and by 1975, 13 half-hour radio shows for New York Indians.[22] Movie theaters in Manhattan and Queens showing Indian movies also started to open.
A small Little India did already exist in Manhattan on
The most famous enclave in the New York City area – Jackson Heights – emerged during the 1970s, with electronics store Sam and Raj, being opened by merchants Subhash Kapadia and Nitin Vora in 1976 and then being quickly followed by a number of Indian stores opening on 74th Street. Though many Indians actually lived in the adjacent, cheaper neighborhood of Elmhurst,[25] Jackson Heights quickly became popular among the regional Indian and South Asian community due to its location near a major subway transfer station and the overall large Indian population in Queens. By 1990, there were already 74 Indian businesses in Jackson Heights and businessowners had formed the Jackson Heights Merchants Association in response to conflict between Indian immigrants and white residents over perceived quality-of-life issues.[26]
Other neighborhoods in Queens also became notable South Asian enclaves during the 1980s and 1990s.
Starting in the 1990s, following the path of past generations of New Yorkers, many Indian immigrants starting moving eastward from Queens to more suburban areas of Long Island in the 1990s, including Nassau County towns such as Hicksville, Elmont, East Meadow, and North New Hyde Park seeking bigger homes, better schools, and more space. During the 1990s, Indians were the fastest growing ethnic group on Long Island.[27] This coincided with a change in the businesses and clientele in the older enclaves like Jackson Heights, with establishments being targeted more towards working-class immigrants than the English-speaking professionals who were the main shoppers in Queens, as seen by more signage in Jackson Heights being in vernacular languages.[26] Hicksville would become the center of the Indian community on Long Island, with Indian stores concentrating on South Broadway around Route 103 by the 2000s.[28]
Indians also sprawled further into New Jersey, with growing concentrations of Indians in areas such as
As more Indians started to move into the New Jersey enclaves and they grew increasingly more affluent, tensions started to increase between them and prior residents. In the late 1980s, a hate group called the Dotbusters – named after the bindi that many Hindu women wear – beat up several Indians in Jersey City, including killing a Parsi man, Narvoze Mody.[31] That same month, a letter threatening to attack Indians in the city was also published in its main newspaper, The Jersey Journal, and there were several racist messages written on the stores and homes of Indian immigrants. Community leaders accused Jersey City’s government of responding slowly to the attacks and at one point invited the Guardian Angels to patrol the city’s streets. Following a series of protests and increased attention from the city government, racist attacks started to decrease by the end of the decade.[32]
However, the increased racism was a reason for some Indians to move southwards to Edison and Middlesex County,[33] though they also faced some resistance there as they started to set up businesses in Edison, with stores on Oak Tree Road being vandalized and proprietors saying that city government did not take them seriously.[29] Indians in Edison and Iselin would also get into other conflicts with the city governments, with the Indian Business Association of the area protesting high amounts of traffic tickets and curfews on its Navratri celebration.[34]
Demographics
The
The Indian American population in the New York City metropolitan region was second in its population as an
In 2014, 12,350 Indians legally immigrated to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA core based statistical area;[53] in 2013, this number was 10,818;[54] in 2012, 10,550;[55] 11,256 in 2011;[56] and 11,388 in 2010.[57] These numbers do not include the remainder of the New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. New Jersey is the only U.S. state in which immigrants born in India comprised the largest foreign-born nationality, representing approximately 10% of all foreign-born residents in the state.[58]
New York City boroughs
As the
Rank | Borough | Indian Americans | Indian Americans per square mile | Percentage of Indian Americans in Borough's Population |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Queens (2014)[61] | 144,896 | 1,326.5 | 6.2 |
2 | Brooklyn (2012) | 25,270 | 357.9 | 1.0 |
3 | Manhattan (2012) | 24,359 | 1,060.9 | 1.5 |
4 | The Bronx (2012) | 16,748 | 398.6 | 1.2 |
5 | Staten Island (2012) | 6,646 | 113.6 | 1.4 |
Total (2014)[59] | 227,994 | 753.4 | 2.7 |
Medium and small-sized cities, as of 2021 American Community Survey
New Jersey
Community | County | Asian Indian % | Note |
---|---|---|---|
Carteret | Middlesex | 13.6% | As of 2012 |
Cranbury CDP | Middlesex | 11.5% | As of 2012 |
Cranbury Township
|
Middlesex | 10.5% | As of 2012 |
East Windsor | Mercer | 16.6% | |
Edison | Middlesex | 36.2% | |
Franklin | Somerset | 14.6% | |
Fords CDP | Middlesex | 11.1% | |
Iselin CDP | Middlesex | 45.1% | |
Monroe Township | Middlesex | 11.6% | As of 2016[64] – By 2022, Asian Indians made up 33.3%+ of the township's population.[51] |
North Brunswick | Middlesex | 16.5% | |
Parsippany-Troy Hills | Morris | 24.8% | |
Piscataway | Middlesex | 18.3% | |
Plainsboro Township | Middlesex | 44.7% | |
Robbinsville CDP | Mercer | 15.7% | As of 2012 |
Secaucus | Hudson | 22.9% | |
South Brunswick | Middlesex | 22.9% | |
West Windsor
|
Mercer | 33.8% | |
Woodbridge
|
Middlesex | 16.7% |
New York
- Nassau County on Long Island has become a major suburban destination for Indians:
Community | Asian Indian % |
---|---|
Bellerose Terrace | 11.8% |
Garden City Park | 18.4% |
Herricks | 23.5% |
Hicksville | 18.7% |
Manhasset Hills | 28.4% |
Searingtown | 18.1% |
List of Little Indias
In New Jersey
- Hudson County
- Bombay, Jersey City, home of India Square
- Newport, Jersey City[65]
- Mercer County
- U.S. county, at nearly 20% in 2020
- Monroe Township, with one of the fastest growth rates of its Indian population in the Western Hemisphere, increasing from 256 (0.9%) as of the 2000 Census[67] to an estimated 4,204 (10.0%) as of 2015,[68] representing a 1,542% (multiple of 16) numerical increase over that period. By 2022, the Indian population was approaching one-third of Monroe Township's population.[51]
- Plainsboro (44.7% Asian Indian)[66]
- North Brunswick (16.5% Asian Indian)[66]
- South Brunswick (36.3% Asian Indian)[66]
- Stelton Road, Piscataway (18.3% Asian Indian)[66]
- Woodbridge Township (16.7% Asian Indian)[66]
- Morris County
- Route 46, Parsippany (24.8% Asian Indian)[66]
- Route 46,
- Somerset County
- Bridgewater, in the vicinity of a Hindu temple on the central and western parts of the township
Bombay, Jersey City
Oak Tree Road (Edison/Iselin)
In New York
- Nassau County, Long Island
- Bellerose Terrace; Broadway/Route 107, Old Country Road, Hicksville;[91] Garden City Park; Herricks; Manhasset Hills; Searingtown
- New York City With over 700,000 Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere.
- Manhattan
- 25th and 30th Streets (growing preponderance of South Indian cuisine), has become known as Curry Hill,[93] developing rapidly as Manhattan's Indian population nearly doubled between the 2000 and 2010 Census[94] and has continued to increase, to a Census-estimated 27,289 in 2013.[95]
- 2nd Avenues, with many North Indian restaurants, and known as Curry Row.
- Queens
- Flushing, in the vicinity of the Hindu Temple Society of North America
- Bellerose Manor
- Hillside Avenue, Floral Park
- Hillside Avenue, Glen Oaks
- Hillside Avenue, Jamaica
- 73rd and 74th Streets between Roosevelt and 37th Avenues, Jackson Heights
- Punjab Avenue (ਪੰਜਾਬ ਐਵੇਨਿਊ), Richmond Hill (Little Punjab)
- Manhattan
Culture
Commerce
Indians have a long history of commerce in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Indians in the United States began to focus on tourism as a source of income. Many tribes opened businesses, such as hotels and Indian grocery stores.
Indian Independence Day Parade
The annual New York City India Day Parade, held on or approximately every August 15 since 1981, is the world's largest
Sikh Day Visakhi Parade
The world's largest Sikh Day Parade outside India celebrating Vaisakhi and the season of renewal is held in Manhattan annually in April. The parade is widely regarded as being one of the most colourful parades.[102]
Arts, entertainment, and media
In September 2014, approximately 19,000 Indian Americans attended a speech delivered onstage by Indian Prime Minister
News publications in English
- India Abroad
- Little India
- News India Times
- The Indian American
- The South Asian Times
- Tiranga in New Jersey
Languages
Indians in New York and New Jersey, as in the United States as a whole, are highly fluent in English. However,
Cuisine
Indian cuisine is very popular in the New York City metropolitan region, bolstered by the growth of the Asian Indian populace and accompanied by growth in the number of Indian restaurants, located both within and outside of traditional Indian enclaves; such that within New York City proper alone, there are hundreds of Indian restaurants.
In 1968, a family of
By 2000, Indian food had become ubiquitous in the New York metropolitan area, both inside and outside of Little Indias, with dhabas popping up around the metro area. These dhabas would serve a quickly growing niche of Indian quick-service food, with a particular appeal to Indians working in professions such as a trucking, taxi-driving, importing, and garment dealers. Indian was also getting more attention from the mainstream American press, with some of these dhabas getting reviews from outlets such as The New York Times.[112]
Religion
Parallelling India's religious constituency, most Indians in the New York City metropolitan region practice
Education
Indians have been attaining school board membership positions on various boards of education in New Jersey and on Long Island.
Deepavali/Diwali, Eid/Ramadan as school holidays
Momentum has been growing to recognize the Hindu holy day Deepavali (Diwali) as a holiday on school district calendars in the New York City metropolitan region.[122][123] New York City announced in October 2022 that Diwali would be an official school holiday commencing in 2023,[124] and this was codified into New York State law in 2023.[125]
Passaic, New Jersey established Diwali as a school holiday in 2005.[122][123] South Brunswick, New Jersey in 2010 became the first of the many school districts with large Indian student populations in Middlesex County in New Jersey to add Diwali to the school calendar.[123] Glen Rock, New Jersey in February 2015 became the first municipality in Bergen County, with its own burgeoning Indian population post-2010,[66][126] to recognize Diwali as an annual school holiday.[127][128]
Efforts have been undertaken in
In March 2015, New York City
Cricket
Economic developments
Indian
Much like other immigrant groups in the US, Indians have established themselves in a variety of different small businesses in the New York area, with South Asians owning 40% of the gas stations in New York City by the early 1990s[145] and also owning many of New York's newsstands by the mid-1980s.[146] South Asians also make up 50% of New York's taxicab drivers,[147] with Indians such as Bhairavi Desai playing a prominent role in organizing cabbies from the 1990s to the present.[148][149]
Airline connections with India and the Indian diaspora
A majority of Indian Americans in the New York region are recent immigrants or children of such from India. In that context, travel between the United States and India has developed strong cultural connections, and, in more recent years, business traffic for expatriates. Air India operates
Notable people
Arts and culture
- Waris Ahluwalia – fashion designer, actor, and model[159]
- Aziz Ansari – actor, comedian
- Bala Devi Chandrashekar – Bharatanatyam dancer
- Sarita Choudhury – actress
- Nina Davuluri – Miss America 2014
- Sameer Gadhia – lead singer of alternative rock band Young the Giant
- Terry Gajraj – singer
- Rohit Gupta – filmmaker
- Poorna Jagannathan – actress and fashion model[160]
- Norah Jones (Geetali Norah Jones Shankar)[161] – singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
- Vikas Khanna – Michelin Star Chef, Restaurateur, author, Filmmaker and Humanitarian.
- Ashok Kondabolu – internet personality
- Hari Kondabolu – comedian
- Utsav Lal – pianist, composer, and educator
- Hasan Minhaj – actor and comedian
- Bibhu Mohapatra – fashion designer
- Mira Nair – filmmaker
- Kal Penn – actor
- Rachel Roy – fashion designer
- Salman Rushdie – historical fiction novelist
- Rakesh Satyal – novelist
- Suraj Sharma – actor
- rapper
- Mathai – singer-songwriter
- Raveena – singer-songwriter
Business
-
Ajaypal Singh Banga
- JPMorgan Chase & Co[162]
- MasterCard
- Sant Singh Chatwal – founder of numerous hotel brands including The Chatwal, Dream Hotels, and Time Hotels.
- Vijay Dandapani – CEO, Hotel Association of New York City[163]
- Vishal Garg – CEO, Better.com
- Ajit Jain – president, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group[164][165]
- Anshu Jain – president at Cantor Fitzgerald
- Arvind Krishna – CEO, IBM
- Sandeep Mathrani – CEO, WeWork
- Starbucks Corporation
- Indra Nooyi – CEO of PepsiCo
- Vikram Pandit – former CEO of Citigroup
- Morgan StanleyInvestment Management
Education
-
Katepalli Sreenivasan
- Viral Acharya – professor of finance, New York University Stern School of Business
- Columbia University Law School
- professor of mathematics, Princeton University
- Fu Foundation School of Engineering, Columbia University
- Mahmood Mamdani – professor of political science, Columbia University
- Geeta Menon – professor and previously Dean Emeritus at New York University Stern School of Business
- Arvind Panagariya – professor, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
- academic dean of New York University Tandon School of Engineering
- Raghu Sundaram – Dean of New York University Stern School of Business
Entrepreneurship and technology
- Dhairya Dand – inventor, artist, and designer[166]
- Vikram Joshi – CTO and co-founder of Pulsd[167][168]
- Roopa Unnikrishnan – innovation consultant
Health
-
Dave Chokshi
- Deepa Avula – Executive deputy commissioner, mental health and hygiene, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene[169]
- Dave Chokshi, former Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
- Deepak Chopra – physician, alternative medicine advocate, public speaker, and author[170]
- General Non-Fiction
- Ashwin Vasan – Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
Law, politics, and diplomacy
- Rohit Aggarwala – Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the chief climate officer of New York City
- naturalized U.S. citizen[15]
- Sikhmayor in New Jersey
- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- Saikat Chakrabarti – U.S. Congressional aide
- Upendra J. Chivukula – Commissioner, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
- New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- New Jersey State Senator, representing the 11th District in Monmouth County
- Gurbir Grewal – New Jersey's 61st State Attorney General
- Sam Joshi – mayor, Edison, New Jersey
- Kris Kolluri – CEO of the Gateway Development Commission, an agency formed under the auspices of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to construct a new railroad tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan and New Jersey[171]
- Shekar Krishnan – New York City councilman, elected in November 2021, representing Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, Queens
- Zohran Mamdani – member, New York State Assembly, representing the 36th District, in Queens
- Raj Mukherji – member, New Jersey General Assembly, representing the 33rd District in Hudson County
- Jenifer Rajkumar – member, New York State Assembly, representing the 38th District, in Queens
- 2024 U.S. presidential election
- Reshma Saujani – attorney and politician, founder of tech organization Girls Who Code
- White House Deputy Press Secretary
- Neena Singh – mayor, Montgomery Township, New Jersey, first female Sikh mayor in New Jersey[172]
- Sterley Stanley – Assemblyman
Media
- Janaki Chada – Politico[173]
- Rhona Fox – founder, soca music record label Fox Fuse
- Neeraj Khemlani – executive, Hearst Communications, CBS
- Anna Kodé – real estate and style writer, The New York Times[174]
- Priya Krishna – food writer, The New York Times
- Sukanya Krishnan – news anchor, WNYW
- Nina Lakhani – The Guardian[175]
- Padma Lakshmi – television host, cookbook author, actress, and model
- Sapna Maheshwari – business journalist, The New York Times[176]
- healthand science journalist, The New York Times
- Ved Mehta – late, blind staff writer, The New Yorker
- Seema Mody – journalist, CNBC
- Vinita Nair – television journalist
- Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy – National Housing and Economy correspondent, USA TODAY[177]
- Anirban Sen – journalist, Reuters[178]
- Priya Shahi – journalist, SILive.com[179]
- Aditi Shrikant – lead psychology reporter, CNBC[180]
- Simran Jeet Singh – journalist, Religion News Service
- Hari Sreenivasan – journalist, anchor, PBS NewsHour Weekend
- Sreenath Sreenivasan – technology journalist
- Arya Sundaram – Gothamist[181]
- Ali Velshi – journalist, MSNBC
- Arun Venugopal – WNYC and Gothamist
- Rohit Vyas – journalist
- Fareed Zakaria – journalist, author, and television host, CNN
See also
- Asian Americans in New York City
- Chinese people in New York City
- Curry Row
- Bangladeshis in New York City
- Demographics of New York City
- Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area
- Fuzhounese in New York City
- Japanese in New York City
- Koreans in New York City
- Russians in New York City
- Taiwanese people in New York City
- Caribbean immigration to New York City
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