Little Fuzhou
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Little Fuzhou on East Broadway as seen from Manhattan Bridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 小福州 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 小福州 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 東百老匯區 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东百老汇区 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | East Broadway Quarter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Little Fuzhou is a neighborhood in the Two Bridges and Lower East Side areas of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Little Fuzhou constitutes a portion of the greater Manhattan Chinatown, home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves.
Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Starting in the 1980s and especially in the 1990s, the neighborhood became a prime destination for immigrants from Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province in southeastern China.
Manhattan's Little Fuzhou is centered on East Broadway. However, since the 2000s, Brooklyn Chinatown in the neighborhood of Sunset Park became New York City's new primary destination for Fuzhou immigrants, surpassing the original enclave in Manhattan.