Canal Street: Chinatown in New York (for Chinese lovers)

Chinese in New York City. See how Chinese haved made Manhattan their home. How they are retaining their routes.
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The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating 665,714 individuals as of the 2009 American Community Survey Census statistical data, including three Chinatowns, comprising the original Manhattan Chinatown, the Flushing Chinatown, and the Sunset Park Chinatown in Brooklyn. Chinese Americans, as a whole, have had a (relatively) long tenure in New York City. The first Chinese immigrants came to Lower Manhattan around 1870, looking for the "gold" America had to offer. By 1880, the enclave around Five Points was estimated to have from 200 to as many as 1,100 members. However, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which went into effect in 1882, caused an abrupt decline in the number of Chinese who immigrated to New York and the rest of the United States. Later, in 1943, the Chinese were given a small quota, and the community's population gradually increased until 1968, when the quota was lifted and the Chinese American population skyrocketed.

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[mikeygeneral]

Gotta love Chinatown. They got errrthing.