The new Latino New York
From Puerto Rican El Barrio and the South Bronx to Mexican Sunset Park and South American Queens.
Puerto Rican New York, 1970
In 1970 the census counted about 811,000 Puerto Ricans in New York. In Mott Haven they were half of everyone mapped, and more than four in ten in Longwood, East Harlem and Williamsburg.
Along the 7 train, 1990
Colombians, Ecuadorians and other South Americans settled along Roosevelt Avenue. In 1990 about 220,000 South Americans were mapped across the city, and about one in five people in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
Mexican Sunset Park, 2010
Mexican New Yorkers grew from about 23,000 in 1980 to about 309,000 in 2010. Sunset Park had the most, about 18,900, nearly one in five people mapped there.
The map today
Today about 342,000 New Yorkers have Mexican roots and about 430,000 South American roots. And for the first time on this map, Dominicans, about 712,000, outnumber Puerto Ricans, about 580,000.
Where New York Came From: a map of NYC immigration and ancestry, 1910 to today
All stories
- Harlem and the Great Migration
- From Italian Harlem to El Barrio
- Brooklyn's Nordic waterfront
- Finns, Lithuanians and Estonians
- New York's three Chinatowns
- The Lower East Side
- Jewish New York
- Little Odessa
- Redlining's long shadow
- Italian New York
- Washington Heights and Dominican New York
- German New York
- South Asian Queens
- Greek Astoria
- A century in seven stops
- The new Latino New York