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Steve Mei, the assistant director of the Chinese-American Planning Council’s Youth Services Division, moved to New York City in the 1980s when he was a child. Growing up…
Our names are Fred Gong, Ben Krasnysky, and Crystal Lim. We are currently freshmen in the Macaulay Honors program at Brooklyn College. We all currently reside within New…
As a result of immigrating to New York, many Chinese have started out at the bottom but eventually moved into professional occupations such as government, finance, and education….
A location which many Chinese immigrants seemed to favor was Brooklyn’s third Chinatown, in Bensonhurst. With great expectations of social mobility, Chinese immigrants hoped to create a permanent…
The Chinese often lived in apartments or houses with several families because of economic or personal reasons. The immigrants were often not economically settled enough to afford the…
Chinese families who arrived in Bensonhurst were mainly more affluent. Instead of concentrating in the crowded Manhattan Chinatown, they sought to buy homes in outer-borough middle-class neighborhoods with…
Since the Italians dominated Bensonhurst since the 1950s, they were unaccepting of the new immigrants at first since the Chinese did not know how to speak English and…
As any immigrant group would, when more and more Chinese immigrants started to come to Bensonhurst, they wanted to build a community. They wanted to be able to…
Chinese-Americans are often painted as the “model minority.” Due to severe language barriers and distrust of the government, the Chinese tended not to ask for a lot of…
A major cause which forced the Chinese movement into was the increasing rent in the Manhattan Chinatown. Due to the influx of immigration and foreign capital, this enclave…
