The Manhattan Community Board 3 is a New York City community board encompassing the Manhattan neighborhoods of Alphabet City, the East Village, the

Lower East Side The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets. Traditionally an im ...

, Two Bridges, and a large portion of

Chinatown A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Aust ...

. It is delimited by the

East River The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...

on the east, the

Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/ suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East Rive ...

on the south, Pearl Street,

Baxter Street Baxter Street () is a narrow thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the borough of Manhattan in New York City in the United States in North America. It lies between Mulberry Street and Centre Street. It r ...

, Canal Street,

Bowery The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.Jackson, Kenneth L. ...

and Fourth Avenue on the west, as well as by the 14th Street on the north. Its current chair is Paul Rangel, and its district manager Susan Stetzer. Like all community boards in New York City, its members are unelected political appointees.

Demographics

As of the

United States Census, 2010 The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators serving ...

, Community Board 3 has a population of 163,277, down from 164,407 in 2000 but up from 161,617 in

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. Of them (as of 2010), 52,898 (32.4%) are White non-Hispanic, 11,294 (6.9%) are

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...

, 55,180 (33.8%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 241 (0.1%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 434 (0.3%) of some other race, 3,036 (1.9%) of two or more race, 40,194 (24.6%) of Hispanic origins. The racial make-up as of the 2000 census was 46,396 (28.2%) White non-Hispanic, 11,633 (7.1%)

, 57,871 (35.2%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 240 (0.1%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 997 (0.4%) of some other race, 3,475 (2.1%) of two or more race, 44,195 (26.9%) of Hispanic origins. 49.6% of the population benefit from public assistance as of 2009, up from 23.4 in 2000. The land area is 1,077.1 acres, or .

References

External links

Official site of the Community BoardManhattan Community District 3 Profile
Community boards of Manhattan {{Manhattan-stub