Chinatowns in Queens

Chinatowns in Queens
Intersection of Main Street, Kissena Boulevard, and 41st Avenue in Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠)
Traditional Chinese	皇后區的唐人街
Simplified Chinese	皇后区的唐人街
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huánghòu-qū de Tángrén-jiē

Flushing Chinatown Chinese: 法拉盛
Neighborhood of Queens
41st Avenue in Flushing Chinatown
Country	United States of America
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Queens
Region	Long Island

There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity and in turn spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens.

The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating 779,269 individuals as of 2013, including at least 12 Chinatowns - six (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City proper, and one each in Nassau County, Long Island; Edison, New Jersey; and Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, not to mention fledgling ethnic Chinese enclaves emerging throughout the New York City metropolitan area. Chinese Americans, as a whole, have had a (relatively) long tenure in New York City. The first Chinese immigrants came to Lower Manhattan around 1870, looking for the "golden" opportunities America had to offer. By 1880, the enclave around Five Points was estimated to have from 200 to as many as 1,100 members.