The
Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan
— a borough of New York City
— is an ethnic enclave with
a large population of Chinese immigrants,
similar to other Chinatown districts
in American cities. By the 1980s,
it had surpassed San Francisco's Chinatown
to become the largest enclave of Chinese
immigrants in the Western hemisphere.
Chinatown started on Mott Street,
Park, Pell and Doyer streets, east
of the notorious Five Points district.
By 1870, there was a Chinese population
of 200. By the time the Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882 was passed, the population
was up to 2,000 residents. By 1900,
there were 7,000 Chinese residents,
but fewer than 200 Chinese women.
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