Download or read book Chinatowns of New York City written by Wendy Wan-Yin Tan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a span of more than a century, New York's Chinese communities have grown uninterruptedly from three streets in lower Manhattan to five Chinatowns, over 100 street blocks, across the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. No other Chinese communities outside Asia come close to this magnitude.