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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…
