Mexican

Mexican New York is overwhelmingly a Brooklyn and Queens story — around three in five Mexican New Yorkers live in those two boroughs, concentrated in Sunset Park and Bushwick on one side of the river and North Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights on the other. Corona has the largest Mexican-born population of any neighbourhood in the city and Sunset Park the second. The other thing worth knowing is where the cooking comes from: most of the community traces to Puebla in central Mexico, with Tlaxcala, Guerrero and Oaxaca behind it, and most arrived through the 1980s and 1990s. The Puebla connection is strong enough that the community is sometimes called Puebla York. It shows up on the plate — cemitas, mole poblano and tacos árabes are Poblano specialities rather than generic Mexican ones, and they are far easier to find here than the Tex-Mex the cuisine is usually flattened into.

Live from OpenStreetMap, filtered to venues tagged mexican within about a mile of Times Square — thin coverage outside that radius, and tagging is crowd-sourced, so treat this as a starting point.

No tagged mexican spots turned up near Midtown right now.