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...
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workers in New York's Manhattan Chinatown following the September 11th attacks in 2001. Oxford Dictionaries defines "Chinatown" as "... a district of...
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satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, and subsequently, in...
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including at least 12 Chinatowns - six (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City...
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Watts and Spring Streets in the west. It runs through the neighborhood of Chinatown, and forms the southern boundaries of SoHo and Little Italy as well as...
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Destruction of Manhattan, 1900–1940, 2001:73 ff Fernando, Nisha (2007). Culture and Identity in Urban Streets: A Case Study of Chinatown, New York City...
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activity. Six Chinatowns (or nine, New York including the emerging Chinatowns in Elmhurst and Whitestone, Queens, and East Harlem, Manhattan) are located...
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Kolkata Chinatown, Lae Chinatown, London Chinatown, Los Angeles Chinatown, Manhattan Chinatown, Milan Chinatown, Montreal Chinatown, Mumbai Chinatown, Newark...
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Lower Manhattan in New York City, known for its former Italian population. It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on...
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Chinatowns are enclaves of Chinese people outside of China. The first Chinatown in the United States was San Francisco's Chinatown in 1848, and many other...
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in Manhattan's Chinatown, the heart of the entrenched Cantonese community that continues to thrive in the western portion of Manhattan's Chinatown. Although...
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neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, nestled at the southern end of the Lower East Side and Chinatown on the East River waterfront, near the...
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Mott Street (redirect from Mott Street (Manhattan))
north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is regarded as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Bleecker...
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Chase Bank (redirect from Chase Manhattan Corporation)
Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000. Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the...
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Collect Pond (redirect from Collect Pond, Manhattan)
water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New...
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Little Fuzhou (redirect from Little Fuzhou, Manhattan)
of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Little Fuzhou constitutes a portion of the greater Manhattan Chinatown, home to the highest...
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Flying Dragons (gang) (category Chinatown, Manhattan)
a Chinese American street gang that was prominent in New York City's Chinatown from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Formed in 1967, by immigrants primarily...
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and Mott Street in Chinatown, Manhattan (曼哈頓華埠). Established in November 1893, the tong fought a violent war for control of Chinatown's rackets and businesses...
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Dimes Square (category Chinatown, Manhattan)
"microneighborhood" of New York City, located between the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan. The exact perimeter and nature of the neighborhood...
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Forsyth Street (redirect from Forsyth Street, Manhattan)
southernmost portion, south of Canal Street, runs parallel to the Manhattan Bridge in Chinatown. On the west side of this block, a greenmarket operates in the...
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Long Island City. Much of the Chinese community lives in Chinatown, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Manhattan, Flushing, Queens, Long Island City, Queens, Sunset Park...
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Lower Manhattan. By the late 20th century, many Chinese immigrants moved to Elizabeth Street, south of Kenmare Street, forming Manhattan's Chinatown. The...
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Michael Chen (gangster) (category People from Chinatown, Manhattan)
delivery boy for a Chinese restaurant in Upper Manhattan while attending Seward Park High School near Chinatown. His father was a taxi driver. He graduated...
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Bowery (redirect from The Bowery (Manhattan))
neighborhood roughly overlaps with Little Australia. To the south is Chinatown, to the east are the Lower East Side and the East Village, and to the...
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Doyers Street (redirect from Doyers Street (Manhattan))
998102 Doyers Street is a 200-foot-long (61 m) street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is one block long with a sharp bend...
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Bend Park, Five Points Park and Paradise Park, is a public park in Chinatown, Manhattan, in New York City that was built in 1897. American photojournalist...
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China into the United States between 1984 and 2000. Operating from Chinatown, Manhattan, Ping oversaw a snakehead smuggling ring which brought as many as...
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Like many other communities, the older Chinatowns face certain social problems. Although Chinatowns are now generally viewed and valued as tourist attractions...
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Johnny Eng (category People from Chinatown, Manhattan)
the Flying Dragons. By 1988 he had moved into the heroin trade in Manhattan's Chinatown. A confidential report issued by the Justice Department called Eng...
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Chinatown Fair Family Fun Center is a video arcade center located on Mott Street in Chinatown, Manhattan. Historically, the arcade catered toward competitive...
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