New York City, with a Census-estimated population of 8,584,629 in July 2025, is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis. It is the largest city in the United States, and has a long history of intern
Chinatown, Manhattan, is the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.
Brooklyn's Jewish community is the largest in the United States, with approximately 561,000 individuals.
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
Central Synagogue, a notable Reform synagogue located at 652 Lexington Avenue
New York City is home to the largest urban Jewish community in the world. As of 2020, the city is home to over 960,000 Jews across the five boroughs, representing approximately 12% of the city's total
Demographics of New York City
…Uzbek Americans and Armenian Americans are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic White population. New York is also home to the highest Jewish population of any city in the world, numbering 960,000 in 2023, more than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined. In the borough of Brooklyn, an estimated 1 in 4 residents…
Jewish shopkeeper in New York City, c. 1929
Asser Levy Recreation Center on East 23rd Street and Asser Levy Place, Manhattan. Built as a free public bath in 1904–1906 to relieve unsanitary slum conditions and named after Asser Levy, a prominent Jewish citizen of Dutch New Amsterdam and its English successor, New York City.
European Jewish immigrants arriving in New York in 1887