Neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City
Little Fuzhou is a neighborhood in the Two Bridges and Lower East Side areas 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 concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere .[ 1] [ 2] Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves .[ 3]
Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City ,[ 4] 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.[ 5] Starting in the 1980s and especially in the 1990s, the neighborhood became a prime destination for immigrants from Fuzhou , Fujian , China .
Manhattan's Little Fuzhou is centered on East Broadway . However, since the 2000s, Chinatown in the neighborhood of Sunset Park became New York City's new primary destination for the Fuzhou immigrants, surpassing the original enclave in Manhattan.[ 6]
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