There are some Chinatowns in the Queens area of ​​New York City. The original Queens Chinatown appeared in Flushing, originally as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing the original Manhattan Chinatown scale, and then in turn growing its own Chinatown in Elmhurst, Corona, and East Queens.
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Context
The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia, mentioning 779,269 people in 2013, including at least 12 Chinatowns - six (or nine, including Chinatowns sprouting up Corona and Whitestone, Queens, and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City proper, and each in Nassau County, Long Island; Cherry Hill, Edison, New Jersey; and Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, not to mention the newly emerging ethnic Chinese pockets throughout the New York City metropolitan area. The Chinese Americans, as a whole, have significant working lives in New York City. The first Chinese immigrants came to Lower Manhattan around 1870, searching for the "gold" opportunity offered by America. In 1880, the enclave area around Five Points was estimated to have 200 to 1,100 members.
However, the Chinese Exclusion Law, which took effect in 1882, caused a sudden decline in the number of Chinese who immigrated to New York and throughout the United States. Then, in 1943, the Chinese were given a small quota, and the population gradually increased until 1968, when the quota was lifted and the Chinese American population skyrocketed. In recent years, the Cantonese dialect that has dominated Chinatown for decades is rapidly being knocked out by Chinese, the national language of China and the lingua franca of most recent Chinese immigrants.
Demographics of the entire city
As the right city with the largest Chinese population in America by a wide margin, with an estimated 573,388 people in 2014, and as a prime destination for new Chinese immigrants, New York City is divided into official municipal territories, which is also home to a significant Chinese Population , with Brooklyn and Queens, located on Long Island, leading the fastest growth. After New York City itself, Queens and Brooklyn districts cover the largest Chinese population, respectively, of all municipalities in the United States.
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Flushing Chinatown (?????), or Mandarin Town Flushing (??????) in Flushing, is one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic Chinese enclaves outside Asia, as well as in New York City itself. Chinatown Chinatown on Main Street and the area to the west, especially along Roosevelt Avenue, has been the main link of Flushing Chinatown. However, Chinatown continues to expand southeast along Kissena Boulevard and north beyond Northern Boulevard. The Flushing Chinatown houses more than 30,000 people born in China alone, the largest Chinatown with this metric outside of Asia and one of the largest and fastest growing Chinatown in the world.
History
Before Chinatown
In 1645, Flushing was founded by Dutch settlers on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek under the charter of the Dutch West India Company and was part of the New Dutch colony. The settlement is named after the town of Vlissingen, in the southwest of the Netherlands, the main port of the company; Flushing is the historic anglicization of the city's Dutch name.
In 1664, the British took over New Amsterdam, ending Dutch control over the colony, and renamed it New York Province. When Queens County was founded in 1683, "Flushing City" was one of the original five cities comprising the area. Many historical references to Flushing are to this city, which is bordered from Newtown on the west by Flushing Creek (now often called the Flushing River), from Jamaica to the south by "hills" - that is, the moraine terminals left behind by the last glaciers, and from Hempstead to the east with what later became the Nassau County line. The city was dissolved in 1898 when Queens became a small town in New York City, and the term "Flushing" today usually refers to a much smaller area, including the former Flushing Village and the immediate areas to the east and south. It was later resolved by several ethnic groups, including Europeans, Hispanics, Middle East, African Americans, and eventually Asian ancestry.
Appears as Little Taipei/Taiwan Small
In the 1970s, the Chinese community established a foothold in Flushing, whose demographic constituency was predominantly Caucasian, interspersed by small Japanese communities. This wave of immigrants from Taiwan was the first to arrive and develop the Flushing Chinatown. It's known as Little Taipei (???) or Little Taiwan (???) . Many who come are descendants of former soldiers and political supporters of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party, who have lost the war against the Chinese Communist Party, and placed themselves in Taiwan. Together with immigrants from Taiwan at this time, a large South Korean population has also called Flushing home.
Before the 1970s, Cantonese immigrants had greatly dominated Chinese immigration to New York City; However, during the 1970s, Taiwanese immigrants were the first wave of Chinese immigrants who spoke Mandarin rather than Cantonese to arrive in New York City. Due to the dominance of Cantonese-speaking immigrants, mostly working-class in Manhattan's Chinatown (????), as well as poor language barriers and poor housing conditions there, Taiwanese immigrants, who are more likely to have achieved higher education standards and socioeconomic status , could not connect with Chinatown Manhattan, and chose to settle in Flushing instead. As Taiwan's population grows, Chinatown Chinatown is made with higher living standards and better housing conditions.
Mandarin Town, Flushing
For many years, many non-Cantonese ethnic Chinese immigrants from different regions and provinces of China began arriving in New York City. This led to the creation of more Chinese Chinatowns or Mandarin Town (???) gradually replacing Little Taipei . This wave of immigrants speaks in Mandarin and other varieties of Chinese. Like Taiwanese, they face cultural and communications problems in Cantonese-speaking Cantonese Chinatown in Manhattan and settled in Flushing and Elmhurst, Queens, which also have significant Chinese-speaking populations. The Flushing Chinese population varied considerably over the next few decades as people from different provinces began arriving, planting their different linguistic and cultural features into their Chinatown.
Flushing and Chinatown bordering Long Island Koreatown are growing rapidly (?????????) as well.
Chinese Demography
The junction of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, in the heart of Chinatown, is home to a large concentration of Chinese businesses, including Chinese restaurants. Chinese-owned businesses typically dominate the area along Main Street and the blocks to the west, while Korean businesses are found in a large number of East Main Street and east of Flushing Chinatown, on Union Street. The majority of signs and advertising stores in the area have become Chinese. The Chinese are an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as the entire population in Flushing. As a result, Chinatown Flushing has grown rapidly enough to become the largest Chinatown outside Asia. Chinatown Flushing has surpassed the original Chinatown of Manhattan.
The 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association estimated that 60,000 Chinese were in Flushing alone. In 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the Flushing core population, with China in turn representing 41% of the Asian population. However, Chinese ethnicity is an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as the overall population in Flushing and Chinatown. The high level of legal and illegal immigration from Mainland China continues to spur an increase in the Chinese population in Flushing, as in all the New York City Chinatowns.
According to the Daily News article, Chinatown Flushing is ranked as the second largest Chinese community in New York City with 33,526 Chinese, up from 17,363, an increase of 93%. The Brooklyn Chinatown is now ranked # 1 as China's largest Chinatown with 34,218 Chinese, up from 19,963 in 2000, up 71%. As for Chinatown Manhattan, China's population declined by 17%, from 34,554 to 28,681 from 2000 to # 3.
Streetscape
Culture
Chinatown Flushing now rivals Chinatown Manhattan as a cultural center of China and has been called "Chinese Times Square" or "Chinese Manhattan". The Lunar New Year parade has become a growing annual celebration of Chinese New Year. More and more Chinese supermarkets are discovering and selling a wide selection of unique and diverse Chinese food and groceries at Flushing, the largest of which are the Hong Kong Supermarket and the New York Supermarket, which is also a fast growing Chinese American chain supermarket. The Main Street segment between Roosevelt Avenue and Kissena Boulevard represents the cultural heart of Flushing Chinatown. The rise of Flushing as an epicenter of Chinese culture outside Asia has been attributed to the enormous regional demographic diversity of represented Chinese.
Language
Mandarin Chinese (including Mandarin Oriental), Fuzhou dialect, Fujianese Min Nan, Wu Chinese, Beijing dialects, Wenzhounese, Shanghai, Suzhou dialects, Hangzhou dialects, Cantonese, Taiwan and English are all commonly used at Flushing Chinatown, while Hakka and Mongolian language is now appearing.
Cuisine
Popular Chinese cooking styles are accessible everywhere in Flushing, including Hakka, Taiwanese, Shanghai, Hunan, Szechuan, Cantonese, Fujian, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, and Chinese Korean cuisine. Even the relatively familiar style of Dongbei cuisine in Northeast China is now available in Flushing, also Mongolian cuisine.
Media
The World Journal , one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside of China, is headquartered in nearby Whitestone (??), Queens, with offices in Flushing as well. Many other Chinese newspapers such as the China Press, Sing Tao Daily, The Epoch Times, and other English publications, are available in Chinatown Flushing.
SinoVision, one of the largest Chinese-language media networks in North America also has its headquarters in Flushing.
Education center
In line with its rapid growth, Flushing in particular has witnessed the proliferation of highly competitive businesses touted as educational centers as well as nonprofit organizations that declare intent to educate the public. Some entities offer education in Mandarin, lingua franca from Mainland China; others claim to provide intensive training in computers and technological prowess; while others attract high school students with strict preparatory classes for college entrance exams in math, science, and English literacy (see: cramming schools and buxiban).
Public institutions and services
The largest Flushing branch of Queens Borough Public Library is located at the junction of Kissena Boulevard and Main Street. The library has an auditorium for public events.
New York Hospital Queens, member of the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, is the premier medical center that provides Flushing as well as the surrounding community with comprehensive medical care services. Many tertiary medical clinics also serve Flushing residents.
A wide range of social services aimed at helping new and established immigrants in China is already available in Flushing.
Transportation
Train 7 and & lt; 7 & gt; New York City subway has its terminal on Flushing - Main Street; the Main Street junction and Roosevelt Avenue, in the heart of Flushing Chinatown, is the third busiest intersection in New York City, behind only Times Square and Herald Square in Manhattan. It is the busiest subway station in Queens and the 12th busiest station overall by 2016. Many other bus and railway connections also serve Chinatown at the Main/Roosevelt Road junction, including 22 bus routes as well as the branches of Port Washington Branch Road Long Island Rail. Chinatown Chinatown is also easily accessible by car from several major highways, the Grand Central Parkway and the Whitestone Expressway/Van Wyck Expressway. There are also some dollar van services that carry passengers between Flushing Chinatown and other Chinatowns in New York City and Long Island.
Political influence
Flushing Chinatown's political stature seems to increase significantly. John Liu, born in Taiwan, a former member of the New York City Council representing District 20, which includes Flushing Chinatown and other northern Queens neighborhoods, was elected New York City Superintendent in November 2009. Simultaneously, Peter Koo, born in Shanghai, to succeed Liu considers this board membership seat.
Chinatown Satellite
Chinatown at Elmhurst
Elmhurst's fast-growing Chinatown (????) is the second in Queens, in addition to Chinatown Flushing. Previously a small area with Chinese shops on Broadway between 81st Street and Cornish Avenue, the newly evolved Chinatown in Queens has now grown to 45th Avenue and Whitney Avenue and evolved as a satellite of the Chinatown Chinatown. In Chinese translation, Elmhurst is named ?? (ÃÆ' â,¬ ih? In Standard Chinese). There are also many other Southeast Asian businesses and stores in the area, including China Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Hong Kong Supermarket and New York Supermarket serve as the largest Chinese supermarket that sells various types of food to this Chinatown Elmhurst. Financial institutions have emerged along Broadway to serve the various Chinese communities in Elmhurst. Like Flushing's Chinatown, this place is also inhabited by Chinese speakers, although many also speak other languages ​​such as Hakka.
Chinese pocket in Corona
The annexation of Elmhurst Chinatown is the Corona neighborhood, which emerged as a geographical chirp that connects the larger Chinatown in Flushing and Elmhurst.
Chinese enclave at Whitestone
Since 2000, thousands of Chinese Americans have migrated to Whitestone, given the considerable presence of nearby Flushing Chinatown, and have continued their eastward expansion in Queens and into neighboring Nassau (???) on Long Island (??)). The World Journal , the largest Chinese language newspaper in the United States and one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside of China, with a daily circulation of 350,000, is based in Whitestone. Hong Kong-based Hong Kong-based Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd is also located in Whitestone.
See also
- Long Island
Chinatown:
- Chinatown
- American Chinese in New York City
- Chinatown in Brooklyn (??????)
- Chinatown, Manhattan (????)
- Little Hong Kong/Guangdong (???/??)
- Little Fuzhou (???)
- Chinatown, Avenue U (???, U ??)
- Chinatown, Bensonhurst (???, ????)
- Chinatown in Canada and the United States
- List of Chinatowns in the United States
Koreatown:
- Koreatown
- Koreatown, Manhattan
- Koreatown, Long Island
- Koreatown, Fort Lee
- Koreatown, Palisades Park
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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