Belarusian Americans in New York City

A Belarusian grocery store in New York City, July 2016.
St. Cyril of Turov Cathedral, a church of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Boerum Hill, 2011.
Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah in Kew Gardens, Queens, September 2020.
Mir Yeshiva of Brooklyn, June 2020.

New York City includes a sizeable Belarusian American population. The New York metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of Belarusians in the United States. Many Belarusians live in Brighton Beach and elsewhere in South Brooklyn, along with other ex-Soviet immigrants including Russians and Ukrainians. Around 55,000 people of Belarusian descent live in the New York City metropolitan area, with estimates ranging from 50,000 to 75,000.


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