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  2. Chinatown, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating an estimated 779,269 individuals as of 2013; [18] the remaining Chinatowns are located in the boroughs of Queens (up to ...

  3. Chinese Community Center - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Community Center facade, facing Mott Street.There is also an entrance at Elizabeth Street.. The Chinese Community Center at 60-64 Mott Street is home to both the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), the oldest Chinese community service organization of Chinatown established in 1883, and New York Chinese School, established in 1909 for children who came from overseas ...

  4. Chinatown - Wikipedia

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    The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest ethnically Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017, [66] including at least 12 Chinatowns – six [67] (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, [68] and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York ...

  5. Chinatown Film Festival - Wikipedia

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    The mission of the film festival was to increase the exposure of Asian culture, while uniting it with other international cultures.It takes place in various venues through Manhattan's Chinatown, and aims to use the highly accessible medium of film to create a new point of contact with Asian cultures, as well as to provide a springboard for greater rebirth of New York's Chinatown, giving it a ...

  6. Chinatowns in Queens - Wikipedia

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    The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017, [4] including at least 12 Chinatowns - six [5] (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, [6] and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City proper, and one each in Nassau County, Long Island; Cherry ...

  7. Museum of Chinese in America - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1980 in Manhattan's Chinatown, the museum began as the New York Chinatown History Project by historian John Kuo Wei Tchen and community resident and activist Charles Lai to promote understanding of the Chinese American experience and to address the concern that "the memories and experiences of aging older generations would perish without oral history, photo documentation, research ...

  8. Chinatown Fair - Wikipedia

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    Chinatown Fair Family Fun Center is a video arcade center located on Mott Street in Chinatown, Manhattan. Historically, the arcade catered toward competitive fighting games . The original arcade opened in 1944 and closed in February 2011, but reopened in May 2012 under different management.

  9. 1982 garment workers' strike - Wikipedia

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    In 1982, New York City's Chinatown was home to approximately 500 garment factories employing 20,000 members of the ILGWU Local 23-25. [2] Most of the Chinatown workers were immigrant women from Hong Kong and southern China. [3]