Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A New York City resident has pleaded guilty to operating an undisclosed Chinese government police station in the Chinatown section of Manhattan. Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chinatown (Chinese: 唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting.Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
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 ...
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]
Chatham Square is a major intersection in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. The square lies at the confluence of eight streets: the Bowery, Doyers Street, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row. The small park in the center of the square is known as Kimlau Square [1] and Lin Ze Xu Square. [2]
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.