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Rob_T_Firefly t1_j5i6zpl wrote

Reply to comment by Sad-Principle3781 in Loving the Chinese New Year celebration today in Chinatown!!! by greenthumbnyc

You're thinking of Manhattan's Little Italy which is basically the Epcot tourist-trap version of Italian these days.

Manhattan's Chinatown is still firmly Chinese because the Chinese-American community own their buildings and aren't selling them out to tourist traps. Meanwhile, there's a steady stream of new Chinese immigrants settling there who keep the place populated.

Here's a good article about it.

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Sad-Principle3781 t1_j5ig9y3 wrote

I mean that article is from 2015. Yea, I heard that new immigrants are arriving, but the place is way more disneyland than ten years ago from both the types of stores and the kind of people visiting. Also COVID must've done a number on the neighborhood.

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