Chinatowns in Queens
| Chinatowns in Queens | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 皇后區唐人街 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 皇后区唐人街 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Huánghòu-qū Tángrén-jiē | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Wong4 Hau6 Keoi1 Tong4 Jan4 Gaai1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, and subsequently, in turn, spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens. As of 2023, illegal Chinese immigration to New York has accelerated, and its Flushing neighborhood has become the present-day global epicenter receiving Chinese immigration as well as the international control center directing such migration. As of 2024, a significant new wave of Chinese Muslims are fleeing religious persecution in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Province and seeking religious freedom in New York, and concentrating in Queens.