The first Chinatown in new york is Manhattan Chinatown, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was built in the middle of19th century. Its characteristic is that almost all the residents in this area come from China. At the same time, China people are also engaged in business activities here, mainly opening shops, restaurants and gift shops. Residents mainly come from Guangdong and Hong Kong, and the main language is Cantonese. According to some old immigrants, before1980s, people who didn't speak Cantonese were considered as "Tang people couldn't speak Tang dialect", and eating, shopping and looking for a job were ignored. Cantonese people are short and have dark skin. It is also easy to be mistaken for a foreigner.
The second Chinatown is in Flushing, Queens. The traffic in this area is very convenient. Terminal 7 of the subway, with one end in Flushing and the other end in midtown Manhattan, is the main passage between the two districts. Main Street is the main road in Flushing, full of restaurants and shops in China, and the streets are all from China. China residents mainly come from Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province provinces, and the common language is Mandarin.
According to people who came early, there were only two or three Chinese shops in Flushing 20 years ago, and the rest were Korean territory, but now almost all of them are "occupied" by Chinese. Walking on the streets of Myanmar, almost all people you see are from China, and whites and blacks have become ethnic minorities.
In recent years, the Chinese business in Flushing is particularly active, among which Wenzhou people's supermarkets are the most eye-catching. In just a few years, about eight or nine large supermarkets have been built. The boss and the staff inside are mainly from Wenzhou. Supermarkets have become the main factor to attract Chinese people from the surrounding areas of new york to shop in Flushing. At the weekend, people from China came to buy food.
The eighth street in Brooklyn is called the third Chinatown. Its geographical feature is that China people engage in business activities on Eighth Avenue and live on both sides of Eighth Avenue and near Sunset Park. Now, China shops on Eighth Avenue are next to each other. Its China residents mainly come from Guangdong and Fuzhou.
This Chinatown started in a grocery store. In A.D. 1970, a Cantonese opened the first China grocery store here, and later other China people followed suit. Because local housing prices and rents are relatively cheap, more and more Cantonese people have moved out of Manhattan's Chinatown and settled in this new community.
In the last decade of last century, Fuzhou immigrants increased day by day. At first, Fuzhou people mainly did business on East Broadway in the First Chinatown, but the original Cantonese people were forced to move out. Later, this Guangdong Street gradually became a well-known Fuzhou Street. However, a street is far from meeting the needs of more and more Fuzhou people, so Fuzhou people have to find another way.
The eighth avenue in Brooklyn is very suitable for their needs. It has the following advantages: first, the rent is cheap, and the house price is not expensive, which is much lower than the first Chinatown. The second is convenient transportation. There is a subway connection between the first Chinatown and the third Chinatown. Don't change trains. This is very convenient for Fuzhou people who set up shop in the first Chinatown and live in the third Chinatown.
Some people say that new york has a fourth Chinatown and a fifth Chinatown. This refers to Amherst and Fresh Ranch in Queens. Indeed, in these communities, there are many China residents, who not only walk everywhere, but also often come across China shops. But I think there are more than half of Chinese residents in Chinatown, and these two places have not yet reached this standard.
The disadvantage of Chinatown is that it is dirty and messy. The first is dirty. Streets and alleys are full of rubbish and phlegm. Much dirtier than the American community. Although the streets are dirty, all the families in China are bright and clean. This incident puzzled some American scholars. Why do people in China do well in personal hygiene, but not in public places?
What followed was chaos. The streets in Chinatown look messy. Businessmen along the street leave their goods outside the door. I have been to the first Chinatown roadside many times to buy fresh and cooked meat paws. But China people who sell brown seeds run when they see the police. Later I met him and asked, "What are you running for?" He replied: "I have been arrested dozens of times. The police won't let me sell things on the roadside. " He finally said: "The United States is free of everything, but it is not free at this point!" Some vegetable markets in China are a bit like small markets in rural Chinese mainland.
Vegetables are piled up on the roadside, and pedestrians squat to choose vegetables. It is also common for people to cross the road, whether it is a red light or a green light. Finally, poverty. Poor refers to poor order and poor morality. If you don't follow the rules, you always want to take advantage of it. Cheating often happens. Both the client and the victim are from China. Fake things are everywhere. The knockoffs in Chinatown are very famous in America. New york City Police Department has raided many times, but it can't be cured. In the First Chinatown, China women often ask me quietly if I want to fake brand-name bags and cam-.
However, Chinatown is also a treasure trove of feng shui. The shops in Chinatown are always bustling and the roads are always shoulder to shoulder. There is always a queue at the post office in Chinatown, and there is no door outside Chinatown. The high utilization rate of houses in Chinatown is really rare. Sometimes office buildings are separated, and a small place is crowded with many "big-name" companies, and a small house number is covered with different brands.