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A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone. [2] Mandarin Chinese, commonly spoken by Taiwanese, has become the lingua franca in New York City's ethnic Chinese communities. [3] Elmhurst, Queens, also has a large and growing Taiwanese community. [4]
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 ...
As the city proper with the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia by a wide margin, estimated at 628,763 as of 2017, [15] and as the primary destination for new Chinese immigrants, [16] New York City is subdivided into official municipal boroughs, which themselves are home to significant Chinese populations, with Brooklyn and Queens, adjacently located on Long Island, leading the ...
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Brooklyn, Queens: Postal code: 11222, 11101, 11104, 11377, 11372, 11373, 11368, 11354: Nearest metro station: Greenpoint Avenue Flushing Line Roosevelt/74th West end: West Street in Greenpoint: Major junctions: I-495 in Long Island City NY 25 (Queens Boulevard) in Sunnyside Grand Central Parkway in Willets Point: East end
In May 1985, there was a gang-related shooting outside of 30 East Broadway, which at the time was a Sichuan cuisine restaurant. The shooting eventually spilled over into the restaurant injuring a non-Asian 37 year old customer named Brian Monahan who was at the time an AT&T executive and had been dining with friends. A 4-year-old little boy ...
De Point on 127th Street and 20th Avenue, an eco-friendly lifestyle center, was opened in 2012, with views of the Manhattan skyline, and a number restaurants, a spa, a swimming pool, a hotel, children's corner, rooftop garden restaurant and lounge and various shops. The College Point Multiplex Cinemas has 12 movie screens, as well as a mini-arcade.
Flying Dragons leader Johnny Eng, also known as "Onionhead", was charged and convicted in 1992 of masterminding an international heroin importing scheme. Federal prosecutors alleged evidence against Eng including 300 pounds of heroin shipped to New York in stuffed animals, strapped to couriers, and sealed in steel machines used to wash bean ...