Chinese people in New York City
The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China. The Chinese American population of the New York City metropolitan area was an estimated 893,697 as of 2017, constituting the largest and most prominent metropolitan Asian national diaspora outside Asia. New York City itself contains by far the highest ethnic Chinese population of any individual city outside Asia, estimated at 628,763 as of 2017.
The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980.
Crossing Canal Street in the Manhattan Chinatown, facing Mott Street toward the south
Little Fuzhou is a sub-neighborhood within Chinatown, Manhattan, the highest concentration of Chinese people outside Asia.
Pell Street, Manhattan Chinatown
There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, and subsequently, in turn, spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens. As of 2023, illegal Chinese immigration to New York has accelerated, and its Flushing neighborhood has become the present-day global epicenter receiving Chinese immigration as well as the international control center directing such migration.
Intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠)
41st Avenue in Flushing Chinatown
The intersection of Main St and Roosevelt Ave after an early morning rainstorm.
Bank of China on Main Street in Flushing
