of . The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 54.8% (16,389) White, 0.9% (273) African American, 0.1% (21) Native American, 29.9% (8,953) Asian, 0.0% (10) Pacific Islander, 0.2% (67) from other races, and 1.1% (324) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.0% (3,894) of the population. Bath Beach has had a long history of being predominantly populated by Italian Americans just like other surrounding areas like Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Gravesend. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, large influx of Asian or American-Asian residents, mainly of Chinese heritage have been moving into these neighborhoods and in the 2020 census data according to NYC Dept. Of City Planning, each the white population and Asian population in Bath Beach were between 10,000 to 19,999 indicating that the neighborhood approximately are almost equally white and Asian populated, though a CNN article about the US racial populations shows in further detail that the white population is just slightly higher than the Asian population in Bath Beach. However, as of 2020, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst showed the Asian populations surpassing the white populations for the first time in history. Street grid Streets of the neighborhood have a unique nomenclature. Four two-way thoroughfares traverse the neighborhood, running southeast/northwest, parallel to Shore Parkway: these are Cropsey Avenue, Bath Avenue, Benson Avenue, and 86th Street. Another, Harway Avenue, runs from Stillwell only as far as 24th Avenue. The one-way northeast/southwest cross-streets are numbered, with the word "Bay" attached (to distinguish them from other numbering systems elsewhere in the borough), from Bay 7th Street in the northwest through Bay 54th Street in the southeast. Every third "Bay" numbered street is replaced with a two-way numbered avenue, from 14th Avenue in the northwest to 28th Avenue in the southeast (except for what would be 22nd Avenue, which is called Bay Parkway). These avenues (as well as 86th Street) are part of the larger grid of avenues and streets encompassing other neighborhoods to the north and west, in the former Towns of Gravesend, New Utrecht, and Brooklyn. Belt Parkway runs on the shorefront north of Bay Parkway and is close to the shorefront south of Bay Parkway. Parks Parks in Bath Beach include Bath Playground, Calvert Vaux Park, Scarangella Playground, and Anthony Catanzaro Square. Transportation Bath Beach is served by the of the New York City Subway system, along the BMT West End