Which areas of QUEENS are the most ASIAN MIXED ethnicities? (New York: apartments, renting)

[Tiger Beer]

I guess to be most specific, I am looking at QUEENS for areas that are not ALL Korean or ALL Chinese or whatever, but a big mix of DIFFERENT Asian ethnicities.

Flushing is one...but it is mostly predominately Korean&Chinese for Asian ethnicites. Are there are other areas with a big mix of say Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc.) or areas with Indian mixed in as well?

I am also thinking of an area safe enough for a wife and son (I'm white, wife is Asian, and son is mixed). Modest income, I'm the primary income earner, and college-educated, but I am not a professional of anything to bring in sizeable income by any means whatsoever.

What areas of Queens would someone recommend? Also, it seems NJ is another popular area for Asian immigrants...should I be looking over there as well, or does Queens far outnumber NJ in those area?

[karm]

i am a 30yo mixed southeast asian. have lived in Queens NYC pretty much all my life.
i am currently looking to leave NYC though, because i'm tired of it. bored with it. but i wanna move to another mixed asian community, lol!

i am not sure how it compares to NJ.

in my opinion, the part of Queens that is mostly "mixed" asian (mostly filipino plus chin, kor, viet, maybe some ja'p), is WOODSIDE but its not the ideal place to raise a kid.

however Bayside is really nice mix of asians (chi/kor) and whites. and ideal part of queens to raise a family.

Jackson heights, Elmhurst, Long Island City, and Maspeth is mixed asian, close to Manhattan, but crowded and small apartments, mostly. but not terrible if u dont need a house.

Flushing and Fresh Meadows is quiet and mixed asian. Many asians but first home there because homes there are alittle more affordable than in Bayside. Bayside is million-dollar homes mostly. Freshmeadows is around half that.

Holliswood and Bellerose are also nice quiet parts of outer queens, without going into Long Island, and are more spacious and more affordable, but have more south asian than mixed asian communities.

i am not redlining but within Queens, based on ur req's, i would AVOID Corona, Jamaica, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and a few other towns.

[Tiger Beer]

Thanks Karm - by the way, where else are you considering moving? Seems like California or Houston might be other alternatives.

You gave me a lot of good places to look and inquire:

Jackson Heights - back ten years ago, that seemed to be heavily hispanic? Has it been changing? I do remember a heavy but limited Indian presense in small confined place which I visited once which I always liked.

Elmhurst - 39% Asian...that's cool!

Maspeth: I checked it out on wikipedia, it says most people who live in Maspeth are of Polish, Slavic, Italian, Irish, German, Hispanic or Chinese descent. Seems like it might be interesting in other ways though, interesting European ethnicities there.

Long Island City - looked up some basic stuff...near Astoria, right? Not much on wikipedia, but I'm gonna research it more.

Fresh Meadows and Bayside sounds way too expensive...

Flushing, great write up on wikipedia - is one of the largest and most diverse neighborhoods in New York City. It is 43% Asian - WOW. High %! Kinda cool...and very diverse...wonder how much is predominately Korean/Taiwanese though! Still interesting, nontheless, and strong contender.

Holliswood & Bellerose - very little on wikipedia, I'll have to examine that one further.

Thanks for the direction, I'll be looking into all those further...

[karm]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Thanks Karm - by the way, where else are you considering moving? Seems like California or Houston might be other alternatives.

You gave me a lot of good places to look and inquire:

Jackson Heights - back ten years ago, that seemed to be heavily hispanic? Has it been changing? I do remember a heavy but limited Indian presense in small confined place which I visited once which I always liked.

Elmhurst - 39% Asian...that's cool!

Maspeth: I checked it out on wikipedia, it says most people who live in Maspeth are of Polish, Slavic, Italian, Irish, German, Hispanic or Chinese descent. Seems like it might be interesting in other ways though, interesting European ethnicities there.

Long Island City - looked up some basic stuff...near Astoria, right? Not much on wikipedia, but I'm gonna research it more.

Fresh Meadows and Bayside sounds way too expensive...

Flushing, great write up on wikipedia - is one of the largest and most diverse neighborhoods in New York City. It is 43% Asian - WOW. High %! Kinda cool...and very diverse...wonder how much is predominately Korean/Taiwanese though! Still interesting, nontheless, and strong contender.

Holliswood & Bellerose - very little on wikipedia, I'll have to examine that one further.

Thanks for the direction, I'll be looking into all those further...

hey tigger bear! lol i mean TIGER BEER!

well i got my options open... i'm being like u and looking up city/town, i havent found a resource that gives the %, that's really good! yeah i might research deeper into Houston, California is generally out of my price range. i just wish there were more places on the east coast with big mixed asian populations like CA has TX sounds like the closest thing so far.

come to think of it yeah maspeth has alot of slavics and euros i guess i just thought about it cuz it probably borders woodside somehow.

anyway jackson heights is super-saturated with indians, pakis, and tons of hispanics. rather than east asians.

if i were u i would look at where i would be working and figure how i'd get there. the subways can be awful but u will probably have to take them into manhattan unless you're working elsewhere.

also are u going to be renting an apartment? renting a house? or what?

"Main Street" is the Chinatown of Queens. mostly Chinese and Korean. hmmm where i go i want to be close to the asian supermarkets. maybe you too... in that case FLUSHING and ELMHURST have the most mixed asian stores!!

the schooling in Flushing and bayside is probably best of all queens -- i went to elementary through high school in flushing and bayside and most of my classmates were asians and whites from what i remember.

dont bother with holliswood and bellerose, they might be too out of ur way and they're kinda close to jamaica come to think of it. and btw in places like cambria heights, jamaica, ozone park, richmond hill, one will find west indian shops (like jamaican and even haitian!!) but no east asian shops or east asian people almost at all

oh by the way where in US are u from?

[analyticalkeys]

The first thing that comes to mind for me is Bayside, a lot of different types of Asians.. but I'm not so sure that you'd consider it mixed, it seems like they have their own sections of the neighborhood.

I went to school in Long Island City for four years, and I can't say that I've ever seen an Asian presence at all. Maspeth seemed to be a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood. I've lived in Jackson Heights all my life, and there's a very small Asian population.. I'd still consider most of the neighborhood to be heavily Hispanic, with those of Indian descent living on the lower streets border.

[Tiger Beer]

Sounds like ELMHURST & FLUSHING are the places to be!

I also looked into NJ a bit...and Bergen County (but sounds like a very wealthy area)...and Middlesex County.

Karm - I grew up in MI...but also lived in NYC, SF(CA) and OR.

Houston IS looking like the only area in the U.S. that seems to combine Asian presense with affordabality...but I'm far from being 'sold on' Houston though. Maybe NY/NJ Asian communities will eventually start moving to somewhere like FL I wish!

[Coolhand68]

There's also a Chinatown in Brooklyn around Sunset Park, but it's mostly Chinese and Korean and you're probably better off in Queens. I'm not familiar with any southeast Asian communities in NYC. I know there is a large population of Cambodian and Vietnamese in Massachusetts (Lowell/Chelmsford) which is about 30 minutes north of Boston.

[karm]

lol tiger i'm getting sold on HOUSTON TX very quickly!!

flushing and emhurst are great mixed asian communities, im just tired of the crowding and dirtiness of the city, it is inner-city after all.

but since ur coming from japan with tight buildins on rollerskates flushin and elmhurst might actually be more spacious to you -- especially if u et a house or an apt in a private house where u have balcony, driveway, yardspace, etc.

elevator buildings have that cochroach / sardine can feeling in all of queens

[DonnaReed]

Bayside - Korean

Flushing - Chinese

Forest Hills - mixed asian

Holliswood - very diverse including asians

Bellerose - very diverse including asians

Northern Queens Village increasingly Indian and Pakistani

(Bayside, Holliswood, Northern Queens Village are not moderate income.)

[qjane82]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Jackson Heights - back ten years ago, that seemed to be heavily hispanic? Has it been changing? I do remember a heavy but limited Indian presense in small confined place which I visited once which I always liked.

The Jackson Heights/Elmhurst area is a mix of Asians and Hispanics. It really depends on which direction you decide to walk/drive. If you walk 10-15 minutes away from the subway station then the stores that greeted you out of the station are gone and are replaced by coops/apartments or blocks of 2-fam single homes. The closer you are towards the major highways, Northern Blvd and Queens Blvd, the more residential the area. FYI seriously varied cheap good food can be had- Thai, Korean, and even a French bakery.