How racially segregated is Manhattan?

Below is a map of New York based on the 2010 census, with a coloured dot representing 25 residents of a specific race (red is White, blue is Black, orange is Hispanic, green is Asian, and yellow is "other"). read more

Most of Manhattan has all ethnicities and rich and poor and middle class living side by side in the same neighborhoods, with a few exceptions like Harlem and East Harlem which are still predominantly black and Hispanic. read more

Tens of thousands of low-income elementary school students in New York City attend public schools that exist as socioeconomic and racial islands within diverse neighborhoods, according to a new study conducted by the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School. read more

But by far the second most significant separation – white-Latino segregation – is also very extreme in New York. The same Census analysis that found NYC was the second-most-segregated metro area in terms of white and black people found that it was the third-most-segregated metro area in terms of white and Latino people. read more