Chinatown, Manhattan

Chinatown, Manhattan 曼哈頓華埠 / 曼哈頓唐人街
Neighborhood
Crossing Canal Street in Chinatown, facing Mott Street toward the south
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°42′54″N 73°59′49″W / 40.715°N 73.997°W / 40.715; -73.997
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Manhattan
Community District	Manhattan 3[1]
Area [2]
• Total	1.99 km2 (0.768 sq mi)
Population  (2010)[2]
• Total	47,844
• Density	24,000/km2 (62,000/sq mi)
Ethnicity [3]
• Asian	63.9%
• White	16.3%
• Hispanic	13.4%
• Black	4.8%
• Other	1.6%
Economics
• Median income	$68,657
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes	10002, 10013
Area code	212, 332, 646, and 917
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	曼哈頓華埠
Simplified Chinese	曼哈顿华埠
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mànhādùn Huábù Bopomofo ㄇㄢˋ ㄏㄚ ㄉㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄅㄨˋ Wade–Giles Man4-ha1-tun4 hua2 pu4 IPA [mân.xá.twə̂n xwǎ.pû] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Maahn hā deuhn Wā bouh Jyutping Maan6 haa1 deon6 waa1 bou6 IPA [man˨.ha˥.tɵn˨ wa˥.pɔw˨] Eastern Min Fuzhou BUC Man-ha-tún huà-pú
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	曼哈頓唐人街
Simplified Chinese	曼哈顿唐人街
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mànhādùn Tángrénjiē Bopomofo ㄇㄢˋ ㄏㄚ ㄉㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄤˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄝ Wade–Giles Man4-ha1-tun4 t'ang2 jen2 chieh1 IPA [mân.xá.twə̂n tʰǎŋ.ɻə̌n.tɕjé] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Maahn hā deuhn Tòhng yàhn gāai Jyutping Maan6 haa1 deon6 tong4 jan4 gaai1 IPA [man˨.ha˥.tɵn˨ tʰɔŋ˩.jɐn˩.kaj˥]
Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
NRHP reference No.	10000012
Added to NRHP	February 12, 2010

Manhattan's Chinatown^[a] is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.^[4][5] Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves.^[6] The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City,^[7] as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.^[8]

Chinatown is also a densely populated neighborhood, with over 141,000 residents living in its vicinity encompassing 1.7 square miles, "of which 28.1% identified as Asian" in 2023.^[9][10] Historically, Chinatown was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Fuzhounese-speaking immigrants also arrived and formed a sub-neighborhood annexed to the eastern portion of Chinatown east of The Bowery, which has become known as Little Fuzhou subdivided away from the primarily Cantonese populated original longtime established Chinatown of Manhattan from the proximity of The Bowery going west, known as Little Hong Kong/Guangdong. As many Fuzhounese and Cantonese speakers now speak Mandarin—the official language in Mainland China and Taiwan—in addition to their native languages, this has made it more important for Chinatown residents to learn and speak Mandarin.^[11] Although now overtaken in size by the rapidly growing Flushing Chinatown (located in the New York City borough of Queens)^[12] and Brooklyn Chinatown, the Manhattan Chinatown remains a dominant cultural force for the Chinese diaspora, as home to the Museum of Chinese in America and as the headquarters of numerous publications based both in the U.S. and China that are geared to overseas Chinese.

Chinatown is part of Manhattan Community District 3, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10013 and 10002.^[1] It is patrolled by the 5th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.

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