The New York metropolitan area has the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia: an estimated 924,619 in 2024. As of 2025, New York City proper had an estimated 635,355, the most by far of any c
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 of Asia.
Pell Street, Manhattan Chinatown
Chinatown, Manhattan
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Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.
Chinese people in the New York metropolitan area
…borough of NYC now has large growing Chinese enclaves leaving The Bronx as the only borough in the city to lack a significant growing Chinese enclave. Manhattan's Chinatown holds the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves…
View west along East Broadway from the Manhattan Bridge in 2024
Doyers Street in an 1898 postcard
Doyers Street in Chinatown in 1938