Chinatown in New York, Manhattan

Chinatown, Manhattan

Manhattan's Chinatown, home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, is the oldest of at least 9 Chinatowns in the New York metropolitan area.

Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 819,527 uniracial individuals as of 2014.

All the pictures have been taken by Elena.

Historically, Chinatown was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers. 

Chinatown, Broome street.

In the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Fuzhounese-speaking immigrants also arrived and formed a sub-neighborhood annexed to the eastern portion of Chinatown, which has become known as Little Fuzhou.

Flags of the U.S. France and Chinatown.

 As many Fuzhounese and Cantonese speakers now speak Mandarin—the official language in China and Taiwan—in addition to their native languages, this made it more important for Chinatown residents to learn and speak Mandarin. 

Although now overtaken in size by the rapidly growing Flushing Chinatown, located in the nearby borough of Queens – also within New York City – the Manhattan Chinatown remains a dominant cultural force for the Chinese diaspora.

The neighborhood is also home to the Museum of Chinese in America and as the headquarters of numerous publications based both in the U.S. and China that are geared to overseas Chinese.

The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area

Monument to Lin Ze Nu (1785-1850). In memory of the Americans of Chinese Ancestry who lost their lives in defense of freedom and democracy

Kathay Bank. Here live the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating an estimated 800,000 individuals. 

Mosco and Mulberry corner. The remaining Chinatowns are located in the boroughs of Queens (up to four, depending upon definition) and Brooklyn (three) and in Nassau County, all on Long Island in New York State.

There are also Chinatowns in in Edison and Parsippany-Troy Hills in New Jersey.

Mulberry street.Manhattan's Little Fuzhou an enclave populated primarily by more recent Chinese immigrants from the Fujian Province of China

Manhattan's Chinatown Pagoda.

Some boroughs are technically considered a part of Manhattan's Chinatown, albeit now developing a separate identity of its own.

Pell street.  new and rapidly growing Chinese community is now forming in East Harlem, Uptown Manhattan, nearly tripling in population between the years 2000 and 2010.

Place of Freedom.

The city of New York has the nation's largest Chinese American population by a wide margin.

This area is the primary destination for new Chinese immigrants. 

 After the City of New York itself, the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn encompass the largest Chinese populations, respectively, of all municipalities in the United States.