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Community Profile: New York's Nigerian population started growing in the 1970s and 80s, accelerating since 2000 in part thanks to the Diversity Visa program. Nigerians from a wide variety of backgrounds—though a significant percentage are middle-class and highly educated— now make up a large percentage of the city's massive West African community, particularly in East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Flatbush, Clifton, and Concourse. Numerous evangelical churches now serve Christian Nigerian New Yorkers, and there are a number of restaurants, markets, and other businesses for the wider community. Community and hometown organizations also represent those with ties to particular Nigerian states like Edo and Akwa Ibom. The multilingualism of Nigerian New Yorkers testifies to the country's extraordinary linguistic diversity, though Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Edo varieties appear to be the most common, with Nigerian English sometimes a lingua franca. Smaller language groups are also present, including some with substantial and well-organized communities: Afenmai, Anaang, Edo, Efik, Esan, Ibibio, Kalabari, Tiv, Urhobo, and likely others.
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substantial community from southeast Nigeria has been established in New York in recent years, including speakers of Efik from in and around Calabar in Cross River State, and speakers of the related Ibibio and Anaang from the state of Akwa Ibom. Many work in healthcare. According to one community member, there may be several thousand community members in the metropolitan area, not only in the Bronx but across Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, Orange County, and New Jersey.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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