Chinese people in the New York City metropolitan area
China City of America in Sullivan County, New York is proposed in 2012 but whose development has stalled due to the 2022 arrest of its CEO.
Dragon Springs (in Deerpark, Orange County, New York) serves as the de facto headquarters for both the global Falun Gong New religious movement as well as its Shen Yun performance arts troupe.
[9] The Chinese American community in the New York metropolitan area is rising rapidly in population as well as economic and political influence.
[12] In 1992, New York City officially began providing language assistance for electoral materials in Chinese, given that this population had reached a critical mass in numbers.
[20] 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 fastest growth.
[21][22] After the City of New York itself, the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn encompass the largest Chinese populations, respectively, of all municipalities in the United States.
There has additionally been a consequential component of Chinese emigration of illegal origin, most notably Fuzhou people from Fujian and Wenzhounese from Zhejiang in mainland China, specifically destined for New York City,[28] beginning in the 1980s.
Quantification of the magnitude of this modality of emigration is imprecise and varies over time, but it appears to continue unabated on a significant basis.
As many immigrant Chinese to New York City move up the socioeconomic ladder, many have relocated to the suburbs for more living space as well as seeking particular school districts for their children.
They instead chose to settle in Manhattan's Chinatown for affordable housing and as well as the job opportunities that were available such as the seamstress factories and restaurants, despite the traditional Cantonese dominance until the 1990s.
The Cantonese dialect that has dominated Chinatown for decades is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China, which is becoming the lingua franca.
This can be attributed to the influx of immigrants from Fuzhou who often speak Mandarin, as well as the increase in Mandarin-speaking visitors coming to visit the neighborhood.
The segment of Main Street between Kissena Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, punctuated by the Long Island Rail Road trestle overpass, represents the cultural heart of Flushing Chinatown.
Due to the then dominance of working class Cantonese immigrants of Manhattan's Chinatown including its poor housing conditions, they could not relate to them and settled in Flushing.
Since 2000, thousands of Chinese Americans have migrated into Whitestone, Queens (白石), given the sizeable presence of the neighboring Flushing Chinatown, and have continued their expansion eastward in Queens and into neighboring, highly educated Nassau County (拿騷縣) on Long Island (長島), which has become the most popular suburban destination in the U.S. for Chinese.
Chinese immigrants then moved into this area, consisting of not only new arrivals from China, but also members of Manhattan's Chinatown seeking refuge from high rents, who flocked to the relatively less expensive property costs and rents of Sunset Park and formed the original Brooklyn Chinatown,[66] which now extends for 20 blocks along 8th Avenue, from 42nd to 62nd Streets.
Substantial Chinese American communities can also be found throughout many individual suburban municipalities in New Jersey, most notably in Parsippany-Troy Hills, West Windsor, and Edison.
Heavy Chinese migration is also occurring to central Jersey (as well as to neighboring Bucks County, Pennsylvania) specifically seeking proximity to the top-ranked Princeton University.
The perception that American Jews eat at Chinese restaurants on Christmas Day is documented in media as a common stereotype with a basis in fact.
[85][86][87] The tradition may have arisen from the lack of other open restaurants on Christmas Day, as well as the close proximity of Jewish and Chinese immigrants to each other in New York City.
[90] The Epoch Times, an international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement, is also headquartered in Manhattan.
[91][92][93][94] The Hong Kong-based, multinational Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily maintains its overseas headquarters in Chinatown, Manhattan.
184 is a public school in Manhattan's Chinatown, as part of the New York City Department of Education, that offers a dual-language instructional program in Mandarin and English.
The Little Fuzhou neighborhood within Chinatown, Manhattan, hosts the East Broadway station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line (F and
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4, 5, 6, and <6> trains) serves the burgeoning Chinese community of East Harlem in Upper Manhattan.
[111][112] As of 2016[update], the two largest Taiwanese airlines have provided free shuttle services to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City for customers based in New Jersey.
As of 2017, Guo Wengui, a self claimed Chinese billionaire turned political activist, has been in self-imposed exile in New York City, where he owns an apartment worth $68 million on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, overlooking Central Park.
[122] Concomitantly, Peter Koo, born in Shanghai, was elected to succeed Liu to assume this council membership seat.
Margaret Chin became the first Chinese American woman representing Manhattan's Chinatown on the New York City Council, elected in 2009.
[1] Yuh-Line Niou is a Taiwanese-American Democratic Party member of the New York State Assembly representing the 65th district in Lower Manhattan, elected in 2016, taking over the seat previously held by Sheldon Silver.
