Indians in the New York City metropolitan region

Indians in the New York City metropolitan region
India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, known as Little Bombay and home to the highest concentration of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere, is one of at least 24 Indian American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area, with the largest metropolitan Indian population outside Asia, as large-scale immigration from India continues into New York.
Hindi name
Hindi	न्यूयॉर्क शहर महानगरीय क्षेत्र में भारतीय N'yūyŏrk śhahar mahānagarīya kṣētra mēṁ bhāratīya (Indians living in the NY Metro Area)

Aziz Ansari Preet Bharara Upendra Chivukula Deepak Chopra Nina Davuluri Nikki Haley Norah Jones Mindy Kaling Padma Lakshmi Siddhartha Mukherjee Raj Mukherji Indra Nooyi Vikram Pandit Kal Penn Rachel Roy Reshma Saujani Hari Sreenivasan Katepalli Sreenivasan Himanshu Suri

Indian in the New York City metropolitan region constitute one of the largest and fastest growing ethnicities in the New York City metropolitan area of the United States. The New York City region is home to the largest Indian American population among metropolitan areas by a significant margin, enumerating 679,173 uniracial individuals by 2014 U.S. Census estimates. The Asian Indian population also represents the second largest Asian American community in the New York City metropolitan area, following the also rapidly growing population of the estimated 819,527 uniracial Chinese Americans in the New York City metropolitan area.

It was after the Luce–Celler Act of 1946 that Indian Americans were restored naturalization rights in the United States. A number of Indian Americans came to the U.S. via Indian communities in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Jamaica. The quota on Indian immigration was removed in the 1960s, leading to exponential growth in the number of Indian immigrants to the United States. While Indians prior to this time were primarily involved in agricultural endeavors or constructing railroads in the western United States, the largest number hereafter came to New York City and its affluent suburban environs, consisting largely of professionals, including physicians, engineers, financiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and lawyers, as well as businesspeople.