23 communities compared — 667 shuls, 36 kosher stores and restaurants, 200 day schools and 28 mikvaos on the map.
Most of New York's Orthodox community lives in and around the city. Brooklyn holds the great Chasidic and yeshivish neighborhoods — Boro Park, Williamsburg, Flatbush and Crown Heights. Queens has Kew Gardens Hills and Forest Hills in the middle of the borough and Far Rockaway on the peninsula. Manhattan has the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side and Washington Heights, Staten Island's Willowbrook is the city's newest Orthodox neighborhood, and Riverdale is the Bronx's Modern Orthodox enclave on the Hudson.
On Long Island, the Five Towns and West Hempstead are Nassau County's South Shore communities, and Great Neck is the North Shore's. North of the city, Rockland County is Monsey and its villages — Spring Valley, Wesley Hills, New Hempstead and Pomona — one of the largest and fastest-growing Orthodox areas in the country, about 30 miles from Manhattan.
Further out, New Rochelle is Westchester's Modern Orthodox suburb, half an hour from Grand Central, and upstate there are Kiryas Joel, the Satmar town in Orange County, and Albany, the state capital.
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| Boro Park Brooklyn | 178 | 5 | 35 | 1 | $–$$ | $1.14M | Moving guide → |
| Flatbush Brooklyn | 131 | 3 | 43 | 1 | $$–$$$ | $875k | Moving guide → |
| Williamsburg Brooklyn | 56 | 1 | 14 | 1 | $$–$$$ | $1.14M | |
| Five Towns Long Island, NY | 48 | 5 | 12 | 2 | $$$–$$$$ | $857k | Moving guide → |
| Far Rockaway, NY Long Island, NY | 37 | 2 | 9 | 1 | $$ | $677k | Moving guide → |
| Monsey Monsey, NY | 37 | 4 | 22 | 2 | $–$$$ | $864k | Moving guide → |
| Spring Valley, NY Monsey, NY | 30 | 2 | 8 | 1 | $–$$ | $650k | Moving guide → |
| Crown Heights Brooklyn | 27 | 5 | 9 | 1 | $$–$$$ | $1.09M | Moving guide → |
| Great Neck, NY Long Island, NY | 19 | · | 6 | 3 | $$$$ | $662k | Moving guide → |
| Wesley Hills, NY Monsey, NY | 18 | · | 4 | · | $$–$$$ | $542k | Moving guide → |
| New Hempstead, NY Monsey, NY | 12 | · | 4 | · | $$–$$$ | $650k | Moving guide → |
| Pomona, NY Monsey, NY | 11 | · | · | · | $$–$$$ | $361k | Moving guide → |
| Kew Gardens Hills Queens, NY | 10 | 5 | 12 | 1 | $$ | $494k | Moving guide → |
| Upper East Side Manhattan & Riverdale, NY | 9 | · | 4 | 2 | $$$$ | $1.6M | Moving guide → |
| Kiryas Joel, NY Kiryas Joel, NY | 8 | · | 1 | 2 | $$ | $487k | |
| Staten Island Staten Island, NY | 8 | · | 4 | 3 | $$ | $682k | Moving guide → |
| Upper West Side Manhattan & Riverdale, NY | 6 | · | 1 | 1 | $$$$ | $1.69M | Moving guide → |
| Washington Heights Manhattan & Riverdale, NY | 6 | · | 2 | 1 | $$–$$$ | $695k | Moving guide → |
| Riverdale, NY Manhattan & Riverdale, NY | 5 | · | 5 | 1 | $$$ | $388k | Moving guide → |
| Forest Hills, NY Queens, NY | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | $$–$$$ | $552k | Moving guide → |
| West Hempstead, NY Long Island, NY | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | $$–$$$ | $638k | Moving guide → |
| Albany Albany, NY | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | $–$$ | $265k | Moving guide → |
| New Rochelle New Rochelle, NY | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | $$$ | $927k | Moving guide → |
The largest Haredi community in the Western Hemisphere — 13th Avenue is the Main Street of American Chasidic life, with Bobov, Belz, Vizhnitz, Ger, and dozens of other dynasties all within walking distance of each other and a complete kosher infrastructure on every block.
One of the largest Orthodox communities outside Israel — the Avenue J–M corridor and Coney Island Avenue combine dense Ashkenazic yeshiva-world families with a growing Sephardic presence, all in Brooklyn's most affordable large Orthodox enclave.
The heart of Chasidic Brooklyn — a dense, Yiddish-speaking Satmar-majority community with Pupa, Vien, Sanz-Klausenburg, Viznitz and Boyan kehillos, centered on Lee and Bedford Avenues.
One of the largest Modern Orthodox communities in North America — Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett, and Inwood form a self-contained Jewish universe on Long Island's South Shore, with Central Avenue as the kosher commercial spine.
The dense, yeshivish-leaning half of the Five Towns community — seventeen shuls, Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and the most affordable frum housing within walking distance of the Five Towns.
One of the largest and fastest-growing Chassidic and Yeshivish communities in the US — Monsey and surrounding Ramapo Township have well over 100 shuls and dozens of yeshivos, with Route 59 and Central Avenue forming a kosher commercial corridor rivaling Brooklyn.
The dense, working end of the Monsey area — a village of shtieblach and Chassidishe kehillos where housing is the most affordable in Rockland and almost everything is within walking distance.
The worldwide heart of Chabad-Lubavitch — 770 Eastern Parkway sits at the center of a community where Kingston Avenue's kosher strip, round-the-clock minyanim, and an unmatched farbrengen culture draw Lubavitchers and visitors from every continent.
An affluent North Shore peninsula with one of the largest suburban eruvin in the country — Great Neck Synagogue and the Young Israel on Middle Neck Road, a large Persian and Sephardic community, and a quick LIRR ride into Manhattan.
Monsey's leafy village neighbor — larger homes on larger lots along the Lime Kiln Road shul corridor, inside the Rockland Eruv, for families who wanted Monsey's infrastructure without Monsey's density.
A quiet residential village between Monsey and Pomona — larger homes, a cluster of Ashkenaz kehillos, and a noticeably more Modern and Yeshivish mix than the Chassidish villages to its south.
The newest of the Monsey-area spillover villages — a small, fast-forming kehilla in the woods north of Monsey, close enough to use everything Monsey has and far enough to feel like its own town.
A dense, walkable Orthodox stronghold in central Queens anchored by Main Street's wall-to-wall kosher corridor — multiple established shuls, top-tier day schools, and a fully functional eruv make it one of the most self-contained frum communities in New York City.
Manhattan's other Orthodox center — the grand institutional shuls of Kehilath Jeshurun, Park East and Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Ramaz on East 85th Street, and a quieter, more family-and-established pace than the West Side, all within walking distance of Central Park.
The Satmar Chasidic town in Orange County, New York — founded in the 1970s by the Satmar Rebbe, organized around Congregation Yetev Lev and its kehilla, and among the youngest and fastest-growing places in the United States.
New York City's fastest-growing Orthodox neighborhood outside Brooklyn — Willowbrook's Young Israel, Agudah, Ger, Belz and Sephardic shuls, three mikvaos and its own yeshivos, with houses and yards at prices Brooklyn families can reach.
Manhattan's Orthodox heartland — Lincoln Square Synagogue, the Jewish Center, Ohab Zedek and the Young Israel of the West Side a few blocks from Broadway, inside the Manhattan Eruv that began here, with the subway to everything and apartment living by default.
Manhattan's most affordable Orthodox community — the German-Jewish kehilla of K'hal Adath Jeshurun (Breuer's) on Bennett Avenue, Yeshiva University a few blocks east, and a large, young crowd of newlyweds who come for the rents and the subway.
The Bronx's Modern Orthodox enclave on the Hudson — the Riverdale Jewish Center, the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and the Young Israel of Riverdale among its shuls, a community eruv, and a quieter, greener feel than anywhere else in the city.
Central Queens' other Orthodox hub — a Modern Orthodox core around Young Israel and the Queens Jewish Center layered with one of America's largest Bukharian communities, on a 108th Street kosher corridor with a fast subway to Manhattan.
A close-knit Nassau County Modern Orthodox community built around HANC and the Young Israel — its own eruv, a kosher strip on Hempstead Avenue, and single-family homes priced well below the Five Towns.
The Orthodox community of New York's capital, around Whitehall Road and New Scotland Avenue — Beth Abraham-Jacob, the Shteeble, Maimonides Hebrew Day School and a community mikvah within a short walk of each other.
Westchester's Modern Orthodox suburb on the Sound — the Young Israel of New Rochelle on North Avenue, Congregation Anshe Sholom, Westchester Torah Academy and a community mikvah, twenty-five minutes from Manhattan by train.
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ShulMap maps 23 Orthodox communities in New York: Boro Park, Flatbush, Williamsburg, Five Towns, Far Rockaway, Monsey, Spring Valley, Crown Heights, Great Neck, Wesley Hills, New Hempstead, Pomona, Kew Gardens Hills, Upper East Side, Kiryas Joel, Staten Island, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Riverdale, Forest Hills, West Hempstead, Albany and New Rochelle. Together they have 667 shuls on the map, plus 36 kosher stores and restaurants, 200 day schools and 28 mikvaos. Each has its own page with a walkable shul map.
Boro Park has the most on ShulMap, with 178 mapped, followed by Flatbush (131) and Williamsburg (56). Shul count is a rough guide to community size, not to fit — a smaller community with a daily minyan near housing you can afford may suit a family better than a bigger one.
By the US Census median home value for each community's ZIP (2020–2024), Albany ($264,700) is the most affordable in New York, followed by Pomona ($360,800) and Riverdale ($387,600), and Upper West Side ($1,687,800) the most expensive. These are ZIP-wide figures as valued by owners — asking prices usually run higher, and each relocation guide says which sections cost what.
ShulMap has mikvaos mapped in Boro Park, Flatbush, Williamsburg, Five Towns, Far Rockaway, Monsey, Spring Valley, Crown Heights, Great Neck, Kew Gardens Hills, Upper East Side, Kiryas Joel, Staten Island, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Riverdale, Forest Hills, West Hempstead, Albany and New Rochelle. Day schools are mapped in Boro Park, Flatbush, Williamsburg, Five Towns, Far Rockaway, Monsey, Spring Valley, Crown Heights, Great Neck, Wesley Hills, New Hempstead, Kew Gardens Hills, Upper East Side, Kiryas Joel, Staten Island, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Riverdale, Forest Hills, West Hempstead, Albany and New Rochelle. A community without one on the map may still have one we have not added yet, and families commonly use institutions in a neighboring community.
It differs community by community, and ShulMap never infers one. Each community page carries its own eruv detail with the source and the date it was last checked. Always confirm with your local rav or the eruv hotline before carrying on Shabbos.
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