Chinese people in the New York metropolitan area

in the Manhattan Chinatown, facing Mott Street toward the south Among the earliest documented arrivals of Chinese immigrants in New York City were "sailors and peddlers" in the 1830s. Three students came in 1847 to further their education in the United States. One of these scholars, Yung Wing, soon became the first Chinese American to graduate from a U.S. college, when he completed his studies at Yale University in 1854. Throughout the nineteenth century, the number of Chinese immigrants settling in Lower Manhattan grew. By 1880, the enclave around Five Points was estimated to have from 200 to as many as 1,100 members. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 contributed to a revival in Chinese immigration, and the community's population gradually increased until 1968. In that year, the quota was lifted and the Chinese American population grew rapidly. The Sino-American Friendship Association was established in Midtown Manhattan in 1992. In 2022, "police service stations" serving as espionage arms of the Chinese Communist Party were discovered and shut down in Manhattan's Chinatown and Flushing's Chinatown. ==Demographics==

New York City boroughs is a sub-neighborhood within Chinatown, Manhattan, the highest concentration of Chinese people outside of Asia. New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia, with an estimated population of 573,388 in 2014. It continues to be a primary destination for new Chinese immigrants. New York City is subdivided into official municipal boroughs, which themselves are home to significant Chinese populations, with Brooklyn and Queens, adjacently located on Long Island, leading the fastest growth. After the City of New York itself, the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn encompass the largest Chinese populations, respectively, of all municipalities in the United States. Immigration from China during the 2010s The city's Chinese-immigrant population saw significant growth at the turn of the century, rising from 261,500 in 2000 to 350,000 in 2011. Chinese immigrants accounted for 12,000 of the country's asylum requests in fiscal year 2013, of which 4,000 were filled with the New York-area asylum office. In 2013, 19,645 Chinese immigrants legally immigrated from Mainland China to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA core-based statistical area. This was greater than the combined totals for Los Angeles and San Francisco, the next two largest Chinese American gateways. The corresponding figures for earlier years were 24,763 in 2012, 28,390 in 2011, and 19,811 in 2010. These numbers do not include the remainder of the New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area, nor do they include the smaller numbers of legal immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Since the 1980s, NYC has seen a rise in undocumented Chinese Immigration, including Fuzhou people from Fujian and Wenzhounese from Zhejiang in mainland China. The city's 150,000 to 200,000 Fuzhounese Americans account for the bulk of the group in the United States, many of whom are employed in or operate businesses within the Chinese restaurant industry. Many airlines connect Asia to New York metropolitan area. As of April 2026, John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is a primary hub for several mainland Chinese carriers, including Air China (Beijing), China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai), China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou), and XiamenAir (Xiamen). They are joined at JFK by major regional players like Cathay Pacific Airways, Philippine Airlines, and Vietnam Airlines (non-stop service from Ho Chi Minh City). The Taiwan-New York route is particularly well-served at JFK by China Airlines (non-stop to Taipei), EVA Air, and luxury carrier Starlux Airlines. Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) remains a critical gateway, primarily through United Airlines, which operates an extensive non-stop network to Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Delhi. Meanwhile Singapore Airlines continues to operate its world-renowned ultra-long-haul service to Singapore from both Newark and JFK (with Newark flight maintaining its status as one of the longest nonstop commercial routes in existence) Movement within and outside the metropolitan area As many immigrant Chinese in New York City move up the socioeconomic ladder, they relocate to the suburbs for more living space and to seek specific school districts for their children. As a result of this process, new Chinese enclaves and Chinatown commercial districts have emerged and are growing in these suburbs, particularly in Nassau County on Long Island and in some counties of New Jersey. Some Chinese New Yorkers are also migrating to Boston, Philadelphia, and eastern Connecticut. ==Geography==

Little Fuzhou in Manhattan is an ethnoculturally distinct neighborhood within the Manhattan Chinatown itself, populated primarily by Fujianese people. The Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn houses another such Little Fuzhou. Queens and Brooklyn are home to other Chinatowns. The Flushing as well as Elmhurst areas of Queens, Bensonhurst and Homecrest, neighborhoods in Brooklyn Chinatowns For many decades in the 20th century, Manhattan's Chinatown was the only Chinatown of NYC until the 1980s when other satellite Chinatowns began to emerge out in Queens and Brooklyn and since the 1990s and especially the 2000s onward, each of these boroughs have evolved multiple large Chinatowns in various sections and far surpassing Manhattan's Chinatown as the largest Chinese population base of NYC. Since the 2010s, Staten Island has also experienced a boom in Chinese residents and authentic Chinese businesses where now New Dorp is being considered the growing Chinatown of Staten Island, which means almost every borough of NYC now have large growing Chinese enclaves leaving The Bronx as the only borough in the city to lack a significant growing Chinese enclave. Manhattan (曼哈頓華埠) Manhattan's Chinatown holds the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, Manhattan's Chinatown is divided into two different portions. The western portion is the older, original part of Manhattan's Chinatown, primarily dominated by Cantonese populations and colloquially known as Cantonese Chinatown. Cantonese were the earlier settlers of Manhattan's Chinatown, originating mostly from Hong Kong and from Taishan in Guangdong Province, as well as from Shanghai. They form most of the Chinese population of the area surrounded by Mott and Canal Streets. The modern borders of Manhattan's Chinatown are roughly Delancey Street on the north, Chambers Street on the south, East Broadway on the east, and Broadway on the west. Queens (皇后華埠) on Broadway in Queens is now a satellite of the Flushing Chinatown. New York City's satellite Chinatowns in Queens, as well as in Brooklyn, are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves, as large-scale Chinese immigration into New York continues, with the largest metropolitan Chinese population outside Asia. busy intersection of Main Street, Kissena Boulevard, and 41st Avenue in the Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), in Queens. The segment of Main Street between Kissena Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, punctuated by the Long Island Rail Road trestle overpass, represents the cultural heart of Flushing Chinatown. The neighborhood expands southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard. Housing more than 30,000 individuals born in China alone, the largest by this metric outside Asia, Flushing is home to one of the largest and fastest-growing Chinatowns in the world. In the 1970s, a Chinese community established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non-Hispanic white. Taiwanese began the surge of immigration. It originally started off as Little Taipei or Little Taiwan due to the large Taiwanese population. Due to the then dominance of working-class Cantonese immigrants in Manhattan's Chinatown, including its poor housing conditions, they could not relate to them and settled in Flushing. Later on, when other groups of Non-Cantonese Chinese, mostly speaking Mandarin, started arriving in NYC, like the Taiwanese, they could not relate to Manhattan's then-dominant Cantonese Chinatown; as a result, they mainly settled with Taiwanese to be around Mandarin speakers. Later, Flushing's Chinatown would become the main center of different Chinese regional groups and cultures in NYC. By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the population of the core area of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population. However, ethnic Chinese now constitute an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as of the overall population in Flushing and its Chinatown. A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone. Mandarin (including Northeastern Mandarin and Beijing dialect), Fuzhou dialect, Min Nan Fujianese (Hokkien), Wu Chinese (including Wenzhounese, Shanghainese, Suzhou dialect, Hangzhou dialect and Changzhou dialect), Cantonese, and English are all prevalently spoken in Flushing Chinatown, while the Mongolian language is now emerging. Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available there. Given its rapidly growing status, the Flushing Chinatown has surpassed the original New York City Chinatown in the Borough of Manhattan in size and population, while Queens and Brooklyn vie for the largest Chinese population of any municipality in the United States apart from New York City as a whole. Elmhurst, another neighborhood in Queens, also has a large and growing Chinese community. Previously a small area with Chinese shops on Broadway between 81st Street and Cornish Avenue, this new Chinatown has now expanded to 45th Avenue and Whitney Avenue. Since 2000, thousands of Chinese Americans have migrated into Whitestone, Queens (白石), given the sizeable presence of the neighboring Flushing Chinatown, and have continued their expansion eastward in Queens and into neighboring, highly educated Nassau County (拿騷縣) on Long Island (長島), which has become the most popular suburban destination in the U.S. for Chinese. Since the 2020s, there has also been a rapidly growing Chinese enclave in Long Island City, composed mainly of higher-income residents; this community was described in LIC Journal as "New York's newest Chinatown". The expanding Chinese enclave was part of a larger trend of growth in the community's Asian population, which was 34% Asian by 2021. Most of the new Asian residents in Long Island City are East Asian, specifically Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, and are second- or third-generation Americans. which now extends for 20 blocks along 8th Avenue, from 42nd to 62nd Streets. This relatively new but rapidly growing Chinatown located in Sunset Park was originally settled by Cantonese immigrants, like Manhattan's Chinatown in the past. However, in the recent decade, an influx of Fuzhou immigrants has been pouring into Brooklyn's Chinatown and supplanting the Cantonese at a higher rate than in Manhattan's Chinatown, and Brooklyn's Chinatown is now home to mostly Fuzhou immigrants. During the 1980s and 1990s, the majority of newly arriving Fuzhou immigrants settled within Manhattan's Chinatown, and the first Little Fuzhou community emerged within Manhattan's Chinatown; by the first decade of the 21st century, however, the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx had shifted to Brooklyn's Chinatown, which is now home to the fastest-growing and perhaps largest Fuzhou population in New York City. Unlike the Little Fuzhou in Manhattan's Chinatown, which remains surrounded by areas that continue to house populations of Cantonese, all of Brooklyn's Chinatown is swiftly consolidating into New York City's new Little Fuzhou. However, a growing community of Wenzhounese immigrants from China's Zhejiang is now also arriving in Brooklyn's Chinatown. Also in contrast to Manhattan's Chinatown, which still successfully continues to carry a large Cantonese population and retain the large Cantonese community established decades ago in its western section, where Cantonese residents have a communal venue to shop, work, and socialize, Brooklyn's Chinatown has seen a change from its primarily Cantonese community identity to a more diverse Chinese population. Like Manhattan's Chinatown during the 1980s and 1990s (pre-gentrification), Brooklyn's Chinatown became the main affordable housing center for Fuzhou immigrantsand for job opportunities ranging from seamstress factories and restaurantsdespite its domination by Cantonese immigrants in the earlier years. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as well as Avenue U in Homecrest, Brooklyn, in addition to Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Coney Island, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, and Marine Park, has given rise to the development of Brooklyn's newer satellite Chinatowns, as evidenced by the growing number of Chinese-run fruit markets, restaurants, beauty and nail salons, small offices, and computer and consumer electronics dealers. While the foreign-born Chinese population in New York City increased by 35 percent between 2000 and 2013, to 353,000 from about 262,000, the foreign-born Chinese population in Brooklyn increased 49 percent during the same period, to 128,000 from 86,000, according to The New York Times. The emergence of multiple Chinatowns in Brooklyn is due to overcrowding and high property values in Sunset Park's main Chinatown, leading many Cantonese immigrants to move out of Sunset Park into these new areas. As a result, the newer, smaller Brooklyn Chinatowns are primarily Cantonese-dominated, while the main Brooklyn Chinatown is increasingly dominated by Fuzhou emigres. Staten Island (史丹頓島華埠) Staten Island has been getting an influx of Chinese homeowners since the 2010s due to wanting a more relatively affordability to purchase homes with many of them originally coming from southern Brooklyn's Chinatowns, which have experienced property value and house purchase and rent price hikes. But since 2020s, their numbers have grown even more where now some reports indicating a Chinatown is evolving in the borough with New Dorp being the main target as calling this the home of Staten Island's Chinatown with New Dorp Lane being the primary strip of an increasingly growing base of authentic Chinese businesses from eateries, educational services, home care services, pharmacies, and other social services. There is also now a large Chinese supermarket with a large parking space on 2380 Hylan Blvd called HL Supermarket. Currently the influx of Chinese businesses and residents are all spread out and mixed in with other non-Asian residents and businesses in New Dorp Lane which is very reminiscent of Bensonhurst's 86th Street between 18th - 25th Avenues back in the 2000s, which since the 2010s have become more than 50% majority Chinese becoming the 86th Street Bensonhurst Chinatown. However, the Chinese population including their authentic Chinese businesses in Staten Island are also spread out in many parts of the borough despite New Dorp being considered the borough's center of a growing Chinatown. List • Chinatowns of NYC: • Chinatown, Manhattan (紐約華埠) • Little Hong Kong/Guangdong (小香港/廣東) • Little Fuzhou (小福州) • East Harlem (東哈萊姆) • Chinatowns in Queens (皇后區): • Chinatown, Flushing (法拉盛華埠) • Chinatown, Elmhurst (唐人街, 艾姆赫斯特) • Corona, Queens • Whitestone, Queens (白石) • Long Island City (長島市) • Chinatowns in Brooklyn (布魯克林): • Chinatown, Sunset Park (布鲁克林華埠) • Chinatown, Avenue U (唐人街, U大道) • Chinatown, Bensonhurst (唐人街, 本森社区) • New Dorp, Staten Island(史丹頓島) Long Island Long Island comprises Brooklyn and Queens, as well as Nassau and Suffolk counties. Heavy Chinese migration is occurring from Brooklyn and Queens eastward, most notably settling into suburban Nassau County, often in search of numerous public schools considered among the topmost in the U.S. New Jersey Bergen County, Middlesex County, Mercer County, Morris County, and Somerset County are all home to substantial Chinese communities, as are individual municipalities, most notably in Parsippany-Troy Hills, West Windsor, and Edison. Heavy Chinese migration is also occurring to central Jersey (as well as to neighboring Bucks County, Pennsylvania) near Princeton University. Numerous Chinese commercial establishments, including restaurants and supermarkets, serve these communities. ==Culture==

are common and are an integral institution in the cultural fabric of Chinatown in Manhattan. Languages For much of the overall history of the Chinese community in New York City, Taishanese was the dominant Chinese variety. After 1965, an influx of immigrants from Hong Kong made Cantonese the dominant dialect for the next three decades. Later on, during the 1970s–80s, Mandarin- and Fuzhou-speaking immigrants began to arrive in New York City. Taiwanese immigrants were settling in Flushing, Queens, when it was still predominantly European American, while Fuzhou immigrants were settling in Manhattan's then very Cantonese-dominated Chinatown. The Taiwanese and Fuzhou people were the earliest significant numbers of Chinese immigrants to arrive in New York who spoke Mandarin but not Cantonese, although many spoke their regional Chinese dialects as well. Since the mid-1990s, an influx of immigrants from various parts of mainland China has increased the influence of Mandarin in the Chinese-speaking world. Chinese parents often have their children learn Mandarin, regardless of their own linguistic background, and Mandarin is becoming the dominant lingua franca among the Chinese population in New York City. In the Manhattan Chinatown, many newer immigrants who speak Mandarin live around East Broadway, while Chinatowns in Brooklyn and Queens have also witnessed influxes of Mandarin-speaking Chinese immigrants, as well as Min Chinese and Southern Min speakers. The Cantonese- and Fuzhou-speaking communities have historically included a higher proportion of working-class residents. Due in part to gentrification in Manhattan's Chinatown, Sunset Park has become a major destination for newly arrived Fuzhou immigrants, while Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay have seen increases in Cantonese-speaking arrivals. As a result, Brooklyn's Chinese communities have grown in size and prominence relative to Manhattan's Chinatown. Cuisine Many popular styles of regional Chinese cuisine are available in New York City, including Hakka, Taiwanese, Shanghainese, Hunanese, Sichuanese, Cantonese, Fujianese, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Korean-Chinese, and Malaysian Chinese cuisine. Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available in Flushing, Queens, as well as Mongolian cuisine and Uyghur cuisine. Kosher preparation of Chinese food Kosher preparation of Chinese food is widely available in New York City, serving the metropolitan area's large Jewish and particularly Orthodox Jewish populations. Many American Jews eat at Chinese restaurants on Christmas Day, a tradition that may have arisen from the lack of other open restaurants on Christmas Day, as well as the close proximity of Jewish and Chinese immigrants to each other in New York City. Kosher Chinese food is usually prepared in New York City, as well as in other large cities with Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, under strict rabbinical supervision as a prerequisite for Kosher certification. News media '' headquarters in Whitestone (白石) / College Point (大學點), Queens Numerous media publications geared toward serving the Chinese diaspora are headquartered in the New York metropolitan area. The World Journal, one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside of Asia, has its headquarters in Whitestone (白石), Queens. The China Press is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The Epoch Times, an international far-right multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement, is also headquartered in Manhattan. The Hong Kong-based, multinational Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily maintains its overseas headquarters in Chinatown, Manhattan. The Beijing-based, English-language newspaper China Daily publishes a U.S. edition, which is based in the 1500 Broadway skyscraper in Times Square. Sino Monthly and Global Chinese Times are published in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey, to serve a growing global readership and New Jersey's growing Chinese population. Museums The Museum of Chinese in America at 215 Centre Street in the Manhattan Chinatown has documented the Chinese American experience since 1980. Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in Manhattan Chinatown Chinese Lunar New Year is celebrated annually throughout New York City's Chinatowns. Chinese New Year was signed into law as an allowable school holiday in the State of New York by Governor Andrew Cuomo in December 2014, as absentee rates had run as high as 60% in some New York City schools on this day. In June 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared that the Lunar New Year would be made a public school holiday; and in September 2023, New York State made Lunar New Year a mandatory public school holiday. Religion • Protestantism (see also Chinese American church) • Dragon Springs, just north of NYC in Orange County, is a center for Falun Gong. Beginning in 2006 many Chinese Catholics began worshipping at St. John Vianney Church in Flushing. ==Education==

P.S.184 is a public school in Manhattan's Chinatown, as part of the New York City Department of Education, that offers a dual-language instructional program in Mandarin and English. Conversely, the Yung Wing school, also in Manhattan's Chinatown and known additionally as P.S.124, is an elementary school within the New York City Department of Education, and all students at the YingHua International School in nearby Kingston, New Jersey, are fluent in Mandarin by 8th grade. Chinese Americans compose a disproportionate enrollment relative to the general population in the nine elite public high schools of New York City, including Stuyvesant High School and Bronx Science High School. Chinese schools The New York City metropolitan area contains several extracurricular Chinese schools for children and adults in the Chinese community that offer lessons in the Chinese language and culture. The Huaxia Chinese School system, which teaches Simplified Chinese, operates in several locations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. ==Transportation==

Numerous New York City Subway routes directly serve the multiple Chinatowns of New York City. The BMT Fourth Avenue Line () and BMT Brighton Line () connect Chinese communities in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Little Fuzhou neighborhood within Chinatown, Manhattan, hosts the East Broadway station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line (). Avenue U is served by the , while Sunset Park is served by the , and Bensonhurst is served by the . The IRT Lexington Avenue Line () serves the burgeoning Chinese community of East Harlem in Upper Manhattan. Meanwhile, Flushing in Queens is served by the IRT Flushing Line () of the New York City Subway, as well as by four stations of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Port Washington Branch. A system of dollar vans operates between the different Chinatowns in New York City. The dollar vans (which are distinct from, and not to be confused with, Chinatown bus lines), go from Manhattan's Chinatown to places in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; Elmhurst, Queens; and Flushing, Queens. There is also a service from Flushing to Sunset Park that does not pass through Manhattan. Contrary to their name, the dollar vans' fares are $2.50, which is cheaper than the New York City transit fares of $2.75 . There are also intercity bus services that operate from the Chinatowns in New York City. The two largest Taiwanese airlines have provided free shuttle services to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City for customers based in New Jersey. • China Airlines's service stops in Fort Lee, Parsippany, and Jersey City • EVA Air's service stops in Jersey City, Piscataway, Fort Lee, and East Hanover. ==Organizations==

The Chinese American Planning Council is headquartered on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It supports initiatives such as Project Reach NYC. Chinese American associations include the Sino-American Friendship Association, the Millburn-Short Hills Chinese Association (MSHCA; ) in New Jersey, which hosts a moon festival each year. 2005 is the year of the organization's establishments. The Long Island Chinese American Association (LICAA) serves the Chinese Americans on Long Island. , Gordon Zhang is the president. Other associations include Chinese American Association of North Hempstead and the Herricks Chinese Association. ==Political influence==

in Flushing Chinatown, urges renunciation of the Chinese Communist Party by China. In 1933, the leftist Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance formed to advocate for thousands of Chinese laundry workers when New York City passed a heavy tax targeting Chinese. The political stature of Chinese Americans in New York City has become prominent. As of 2017, Guo Wengui, a self-claimed Chinese billionaire turned political activist, has been in self-imposed exile in New York City, where he owns an apartment worth $68million on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, overlooking Central Park. He has continued to conduct a political agenda to bring attention to alleged corruption in the Chinese political system from his New York home. In July 2024, Guo was convicted of fraud in New York. Taiwan-born John Liu, former New York City Council member representing District 20, which includes Flushing Chinatown and other northern Queens neighborhoods, was elected New York City Comptroller in November 2009, becoming the first Asian American to be elected to a citywide office in New York City. Concomitantly, Peter Koo, born in Shanghai, was elected to succeed Liu to assume this council membership seat. Peter Koo ran as a Republican and was elected as a Republican to The New York City Council in November 2009. He changed his party affiliation to a member of the Democratic Party in 2012 and was re-elected to the city council as a Democrat in November 2013. Margaret Chin became the first Chinese American woman representing Manhattan's Chinatown on the New York City Council, elected in 2009. Grace Meng, an American-born Taiwanese, has been a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 6th congressional district in Queens, since 2009. Of the more than 2,100 Asian Americans within the uniformed ranks of the New York Police Department (NYPD) in 2015about six percent of the totalroughly half were Chinese American, NYPD statistics show, a number which has grown tenfold since 1990. Yuh-Line Niou is a Taiwanese-American Democratic Party member of the New York State Assembly representing the 65th district in Lower Manhattan, elected in 2016, taking over the seat previously held by Sheldon Silver. In November 2014, Nancy Tong became the first Chinese American Democrat elected female district leader in Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn). In November 2022, Iwen Chu, a resident of Brooklyn, was elected to The New York State Senate as a Democrat. In November 2023, Susan Zhuang, born in mainland China and living in Brooklyn, was elected to the New York City Council as a Democrat. In November 2022, Lester Chang, who was born in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn, was elected to The New York State Assembly, representing southern Brooklyn as a Republican. Steve Chan was elected to the New York State Senate in November 2024 as a Republican representing Bensonhurst and other parts of southern Brooklyn. In 2021, Republican Party politicians, including Curtis Sliwa, who ran for Mayor of New York City, attracted Chinese American voters who opposed Democratic Party policies in education and crime. ==Economic influence==

The economic influence of Chinese in New York City is growing as well. The majority of cash purchases of New York City real estate in the first half of 2015 were transacted by Chinese as a combination of overseas Chinese and Chinese Americans. The top three surnames of cash purchasers of Manhattan real estate during that time period were Chen, Liu, and Wong. According to China Daily, the ferris wheel under construction on Staten Island, slated to be among the world's tallest and most expensive with an estimated cost of $500million, has received $170million in funding from approximately 300 Chinese investors through the U.S. EB-5 immigrant investor program, which grants permanent residency to foreign investors in exchange for job-creating investments in the United States, with Chinese immigrating to New York City dominating this list. Chinese billionaires have been buying New York property to be used as pied-à-terres, often priced in the tens of millions of U.S. dollars each, and as of 2016, middle-class Chinese investors were purchasing real estate in New York. Chinese companies have also been raising billions of dollars on stock exchanges in New York via initial public offerings. Major Chinese banks have maintained operational offices in New York City. ==Notable people==

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Fu – founder of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering at Columbia University Business • Sam Chang – real estate and hotel developer • James S.C. Chao – shipping magnate and father of former U.S. Cabinet member Elaine Chao • Guo Wengui – billionaire businessman and political activist • Andrea Jung – CEO and president of Grameen America, a non-profit microfinance company with philanthropy as its primary mission • Kim Y. Lew – CEO, Columbia Investment Management Co., manager of the multi-billion dollar Columbia University endowment • Peng Zhao – CEO, Citadel Securities • Charles Wang – late owner, New York Islanders team of the National Hockey League • Chris Jiashu Xu – real estate and hotel developer Entrepreneurship and technology • Perry Chen – co-founder of Kickstarter • Christopher Cheung – co-founder, Boxed • Chieh Huang – CEO and co-founder, Boxed • William Fong – co-founder, Boxed • Andrew Yang – founder, Venture for America; U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate; candidate, New York City mayoral election 2021; and pioneer of the Universal Basic Income concept • David Zhu – co-founder, Enterproid Law, politics, and diplomacy • Margaret Chan – New York State Supreme Court Civil Branch justice in Manhattan • Steve Chan – New York State Senator, elected November 2024, representing the 17th district • Lester Chang - New York State Assembly, elected November 2022, representing parts of Brooklyn • Leigh Cheng – New York City Court judge, Brooklyn • Chi Ossé – youngest ever member of the New York City Council to be elected, in January 2022 at age 23, to represent District 36 in Brooklyn • Denny Chin – justice on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan • Margaret Chin – first Chinese American woman elected to represent Manhattan's Chinatown on the New York City Council in 2009 • Iwen Chu – former New York State Senator, representing the 17th district (2023–2024) • Peter Koo – New York City councilman elected in 2009 to represent District 20 in Queens • Li Baodong – President of the United Nations Security Council during months in 2011 and 2012 • Doris Ling-Cohan – New York State Supreme Court Civil Branch justice in Manhattan • Nancy Tong - elected Democratic party female District Leader in November 2014, representing parts of Brooklyn, NY • Wenjian Liu – first Chinese American officer in the New York City Police Department to die in the line of duty in 2014 • Wenliang Wang – honorary chairman, NYU Center on U.S.-China relations • Eva Wong – Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Community Mental Health, appointed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani • Phil Wong – councilman, New York City's 30th City Council district in Queens, elected in November 2025 • Peter Yew – Chinese Americans first protested police brutality with high-profile activism outside New York City Hall in May 1975, after the beating of this 27-year-old Chinese-American engineer who was a bystander at the scene of a traffic dispute in Chinatown in Manhattan. • Kathy YL Chan – journalist, Bloomberg News • Mable Chan – The New York Times • Melissa Chan – journalist, NBC News • Sewell Chan – executive editor, Columbia Journalism Review • Wilfred Chan – The Guardian • Clio Chang – journalist, Curbed • Gordon G. Chang – journalist, multiple platforms • Laura Chang – journalist, editor of the Booming blog, The New York Times • Lia Chang – actress and photographic journalist, multiple media platforms • William Y. Chang – late founder of the Chinese-American Times newspaper • Chau Lam – Gothamist • Adrian Chen – investigative journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker • Aria Hangyu Chen – multimedia journalist • Brian X. Chen – lead consumer technology journalist, The New York Times • Caroline Chen – journalist, ProPublica • David W. Chen – investigative journalist, City Hall bureau chief, The New York Times • Elaine Chen – digital editor, The New York Times • Stefanos Chen – real estate reporter, The New York Times • Evelyn Cheng – journalist, CNBC • Roger Cheng – executive editor in charge of breaking news, CNET News • Paul Cheung – journalist, global director of interactive and digital news production, The Associated Press • Ronny Chieng – comedian • Lindsey Choo – journalist, Forbes • Andrew R. Chow – journalist, The New York Times • Denise Chow – science and technology editor, NBC News • Dominic Chu – journalist, CNBC • Christine Chung – journalist, The New York Times • Connie Chung – journalist • James Dao – op-ed editor, The New York Times • Wendi Deng – media personality, film producer, and businessperson • Christina Fan – journalist, WCBS-TV • Scarlet Fu – Bloomberg Television anchor and New York Stock Exchange reporter • Esther Fung – journalist, The Wall Street Journal • Vivian Giang – journalist, The New York Times • Lisa Kailai Han – journalist, Business Insider • Amy He – journalist, China Daily • Angela He – corporate communications specialist, The New York Times • Gary He – journalist, Vox Media • Hezi Jiang – journalist, China Daily • Joe Hong – journalist, Gothamist • Nicole Hong – law enforcement and courts journalist, The New York Times • Hong Xiao – journalist, China Daily • Krystal Hu – journalist, Reuters • Winnie Hu – journalist, The New York Times • Hua Hsu – journalist, The New Yorker • Eddie Huang – writer, author of Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir • Virginia Huie – journalist, News 12 Long Island • Jing Cao – journalist, Bloomberg News • Jason Kao – journalist, The New York Times • Hope King – senior business reporter, Axios • K.K. Rebecca Lai – graphics editor, The New York Times • Katherine Lam – digital producer, Fox News • Esther Lee – deputy editor, The Knot • Jennifer 8. Lee – journalist, credits including The New York Times • Melissa Lee – news anchor, Fast Money on CNBC • Clarissa-Jan Lim – journalist, MSNBC • Kristin Lin – op-ed columnist, The New York Times • Betty Liu – news anchor, Bloomberg Television • Jennifer Liu – journalist, CNBC • Denise Lu – The New York Times • Lu Wang – journalist, Bloomberg News • Richard Lui – news anchor, MSNBC and NBC News • Michael Luo – journalist, The New York Times • Sarah Min – investing reporter, CNBC • Alfred Ng – associate engagement editor, New York Daily News • Emily Ngo – journalist, Politico • Niu Yue – journalist, China Daily • Shiyu (Shelly) Xu – field producer, Fox News • Gillian Tan – Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering private equity and mergers and acquisitions • Terry Tang – deputy editorial page editor, The New York Times • Kaity Tong – journalist, news anchor • Crystal Tse – Bloomberg News • Echo Wang – journalist, Reuters • Christine Wang – news editor, CNBC • Vivian Wang – journalist, The New York Times • Justin Wee – photojournalist, The New York Times • Andrea Wong – journalist, Bloomberg News • Natalie Wong – journalist, Bloomberg News • Vanessa Wong – journalist, BuzzFeed • Kimberly Yam – journalist, HuffPost • Ellen Yan – The New York Times, Newsday • Angela Yang – NBC News • Jeff Yang – media consultant, "Tao Jones" columnist for The Wall Street Journal • Lucy Yang – journalist, WABC-TV • Maya Yang – journalist, The Guardian • Stephen Yang – photojournalist, New York Post • Yueqi Yang – journalist, Bloomberg News • Angela Yee – radio personality • Vivian Yee – journalist, The New York Times • Claudia Yeung – communications director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York • Karen Yi – journalist, Gothamist • Yong Xiong – investigative producer and journalist, CNN • William Yu – digital media strategist • Jada Yuan – travel correspondent, The New York Times • Yun Li – journalist, CNBC • Benjamin P. Zhang – journalist, Business Insider • Raymond Zhong – climate change journalist, part of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize winning team for COVID-19 pandemic coverage, The New York Times • Zijia Song – journalist, multiple media platforms Theater, arts, and culture • Celia Au – actress and filmmaker • Awkwafina (Nora Lum) – Korean-Chinese actress and rapper • Malan Breton – fashion designer • Kevin Chan – fashion designer • Amy Chang – actress • Fala Chen – actress • Angel Chang – fashion designer • Cheung Pei Pei – actress • David Henry Hwang – Broadway playwright, librettist, and screenwriter • MC Jin – rapper • Yue-Sai Kan – television host and producer, entrepreneur, fashion icon, author and humanitarian • Jonathan Koon – fashion designer • Derek Lam – fashion designer • Lap Chi Chu – Off-Broadway set lighting • Li Hongzhi – founder of Falun Gong • Humberto Leon – fashion designer • Tina Leung – actress, Bling Empire: New York • Li Yu – actress • Ming Cho Lee – Broadway set designer • Peter Mui – fashion designer, actor, and musician • I.M. Pei – world-renowned late architect • Mary Ping – fashion designer • Shen Wei – choreographer, stage designer • Mimi So – jewelry designer • Phillipa Soo – Broadway actress • Peter Som – fashion designer • Anna Sui – fashion designer • Brandon Sun – fashion designer • Vivienne Tam – fashion designer • Oscar and Hsin Mei Agnes Hsu Tang – philanthropists to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side of Manhattan • Alexander Wang – fashion designer • Dorothy Wang – actress, Bling Empire: New York • Vera Wang – fashion designer • Yuja Wang – concert pianist • Nymphia Wind – winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16; fashion designer • BD Wong – Broadway actor • Jason Wu – fashion designer • Ximan Li – filmmaker • Sophia Yan – classical pianist • Bowen Yang – writer and actor, Saturday Night Live • Yeohlee Teng – fashion designer • Yuhua Hamasaki – drag queen • Joe Zee – fashion stylist ==See also==