Influence on New York cuisine

New York has the largest variety of recipes in the United States. Mixing and combining many cultures around the world, the city adopted certain recipes from a large variety of places. New York’s recipes still have some of the culinary history of the city, and creations are based on Latin American and European recipes. (See culinary schools in New York)

The New York neighborhoods 

The New York neighborhoods that have more representation in the culinary culture of New York are: The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Manhattan. These neighborhoods still have the ethnic culture of food in the city of New York, and involvement of ethnic groups from different countries. Each neighborhood has a number of people who come from all over the world. Some of the ethnic groups that each neighborhood has are: 

The Bronx

Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Korean, Italian, Albanian Italian, Filipino, Jamaican, West Indian and Irish.

Queens

Greek, Czech, Bangladeshi, Arab, Indian, Pakistani, Colombian, Dominican, Mexican, Ecuadorean, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Italian, Dominican, Colombian, Kosher, Russian, Uzbek, Bangladeshi, Latin American, Mexican, Bangladeshi, Caribbean, African-American, African and Creole.

Brooklyn

Irish, Italian, Arabic, African American, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Puerto Rican and West Indian, Russian, Georgian, Arab, Ukrainian, Ecuadorian, Jamaican, African American, Dominican, Haitian, Creole, Polish,  Ukrainian Bengali, Pakistani, Mexican and Polish. 

Staten Island

Italian, Russian, Arab, Polish and Sri Lankan.

Manhattan

Puerto Rican, Latin American, Chinese and Vietnamese, Mexican, Dominican, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Ukrainian African-American, Latin American, West Indian, West African, Italian, Chinese, German, Czech and Hungarian. 

Venezuelan cuisine is one of the most varied, and the fact that there are a lot of Venezuelan-Americans in New York enriches each of the dishes that the different neighborhoods where the Venezuelan ethnic groups are mostly established. In conclusion, New York cuisine is highly influenced by different cultures.