Shirdi Sai Cultural and Community Center is one such temple.
The area is served by Metropark Station, providing a one-seat commuter rail connection to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.Ī variety of Hindu temples have been established along the strip, alongside diverse Christian, Jewish, and Muslim congregations in the greater area. The district, which lies nears the sprawling Chinatown, Edison, is also known in particular as a destination for Indo-Chinese cuisine. Establishments have appeared on food critics' "best of South Asian cuisine" national and regional lists. Over 60 Indian and Pakistani restaurants alone are found in the neighborhood. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 42.6% of Iselin residents identified themselves as being Indian American, the highest for any census-designated place in the United States. This zone is the largest and most diverse South Asian ethnic enclave and cultural hub in the United States. county with the highest concentration of Indian Americans. Little India is located in Central Jersey in Middlesex County, the U.S. Indian-American supermarket chain Patel Brothers has a location on the strip. Many come to the area for its traditional gold and Maharashtrian jewelry retailers. Oak Tree Road in Edison and Iselin is home to over 400 South Asian business establishments, including dining, halal grocery, jewelry, apparel and electronics retailing, and entertainment. The intersection of Wood Avenue and Oak Tree Road is where the two towns meet. The epicenter of Little India retail is traditionally on the two-block stretch of Oak Tree Road between Correja Avenue and Middlesex Avenue in Iselin, an area officially known as India Square there, as of 2017, rents were roughly double over the rest of the strip.
Little India on Oak Tree Road runs for about one-and-a-half miles through Edison and neighboring Iselin, New Jersey. One food and entertainment critic has named the "atmospheric" Little India as one of the "50 Best Reasons to Live in New Jersey."
It is about a thirty-five-minute drive southwest of Manhattan amid a leafy suburban residential region home to many South Asian families. Little India, Edison/Iselin, also known as Oak Tree Road, is a heavily South Asian shopping, business and dining district centered on a road, designated County Route 604, in Middlesex County, New Jersey.