Only 36% of New Yorkers believe race relations in the state are excellent or good, while 60% believe they are fair or negative, a Siena College poll released Monday found. 

The annual survey by the polling institute released as the nation recognizes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day shows slight improvement from a year ago, when 31% of New Yorkers believe race relations were good or excellent. 

Still, there's been a decline since 2008 and 2014, when at least 47% of New Yorkers believed race relations in New York were positive. In the last eight years, the high-water mark for New Yorkers finding good or excellent race relations in the state stood at 39%.

Meanwhile, 72% of New Yorkers say people of color -- including Black, Hispanic and Asian residents -- face racial discrimination, while 19% say they do not. That's changed little from a year ago, when New Yorkers surveyed answered the same question, 70% to 22%. 

At the same time, a similar margin, 71% to 20%, believe Jews, Muslims and other relgious minorities experience discrimination based on their religion. 

“The overwhelming majority of New Yorkers of every stripe think racial minorities experience discrimination in New York – including 92% of Blacks, 87% of Latinos and 67% of whites; 84% of Democrats, 66% of independents and 56% of Republicans; and at least 63% from every region,” Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said. “Similarly, at least 62% of voters, regardless of religion, race, party, or region, say that religious minorities experience discrimination."

A third of New Yorkers surveyed said they were treated unfairly in the last year because of their race, religion, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. That includes 50% of Latinos and 41% of Black New Yorkers, the poll found. 

"This number has remained largely consistent over the last five years,” Greenberg said. “Dr. King would have turned 93 this weekend. He said, ‘Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.’ New Yorkers say that struggle persists.”  

The poll of 806 New York registered voters was conducted from Jan. 9 to Jan. 13. It has a margin of error of 4 percentage points. The crosstabs of the poll can be found here.