Won, a 31-year-old tech consultant, said she consciously tried to avoid perpetuating model minority stereotypes about Asian Americans on the campaign trail. The challenge of representing such a broad constituency will likely fall to Julie Won, a liberal Democratic candidate expected next month to win the City Council seat that represents Long Island City - as well as Astoria, Sunnyside and Woodside in Queens. In 2019, Asians made up 11 percent of the housing complex’s tenants, according to a recent court filing. The Asian population is rising in another part of Long Island City, inside Queensbridge Houses, the country’s largest public housing complex. It also reflects the vast economic disparity among Asian New Yorkers, who have the widest income gaps of any racial group.
Still, the spike in the neighborhood’s Asian population is not only a story of upward mobility. “It’s because they see the potential of this developing area.” “Why do more and more Asian people want to do business here?” Mr. Huang, who grew up in China before attending college and graduate school in the U.S., noticed a need for more Asian food and beverage establishments, saying he and his friends were often choosing to wait up to two hours for Chinese food delivery from Flushing. Many local business owners are young immigrants like Nigel Huang, 27, who opened a bubble tea shop called Teazzi on the ground floor of the apartment building where he lives in the penthouse unit. Asians were the only major racial group whose population increased in all five boroughs. The Asian population in New York City jumped by more than 345,000 since 2010 to make up 15.6 percent of the city’s population, according to census data, accounting for more than half of the city’s overall population increase in the past decade.
In June, a record six Asian American candidates won their Democratic primaries for City Council, including the seat representing Long Island City. The surge in Asian residents has transformed neighborhoods - from Bensonhurst in Brooklyn to Parkchester in the Bronx - with the potential to significantly reshape New York’s housing market, small businesses and political representation. The nearly 11,000 Asians who live in the neighborhood make up about 34 percent of its population.
The census data also showed that among New York City neighborhoods, Long Island City experienced the fastest growth in residents who identified as Asian, a fivefold increase since 2010.
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