Manhattan’s Chinatown is the home to one of the largest population of Chinese people in the western hemisphere.  Everywhere you go you will see street vendors trying to sell fruit, meat, clothes, etc. It is hard not to get hit with the Chinese culture as soon as you enter the bustling neighborhood. With a population between 70,000 to 150,000, mostly of Asian people, it is no wonder that Chinatown would be a favorite destination for Chinese immigrants. The neighborhood has also become home to Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Burmese, Vietnamese, and Filipinos among others.

The Chinese have been entering the United States ever since the mid eighteenth century, and by the mid nineteenth century, more Chinese entered the United States, settling down and starting families. The Chinatown today has become “both a tourist attraction and the home of the majority of Chinese New Yorkers.” “Chinatown offers visitor and resident alike hundreds of restaurants, booming fruit and fish markets and shops of knickknacks and sweets on torturously winding and overcrowded streets.”

Source: http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html

Photo: Taken of Pell St. on a rainy/snowy morning after eating dimsum! 🙂