Located on the lower east side of Manhattan. Chinatown covers roughly two square miles. Bounded on the north by Kenmore and Delancey streets, on the south by East and Worth streets, Allen street on the east, and Broadway on the west. With a population between 70,000 to 150,00 Chinese immigrants, NYC's Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in the United States, surpassing San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1980's.

Chinatown is one of New York's most densely populated neighborhoods, thus it's resident's need for employment is met by more than 200 restaurants, tea houses, produce and fish stands, laundries, and numerous stores selling anything from jewelry to traditional herbal remedies.

Chinatown's close proximity to the garment district once provided much needed employment at the garment factories, but over the years the manufacturing of clothing has moved to China. There a few factories left providing "quick" manufacturing and piece work, though this is generally done at a person's home.

Through the course of Chinatown's history there has been little in the way of architecture to in a sense "announce" to someone that they have entered the area. In 1962, at Chatham Square the Kam Lau memorial archway was erected in memorial of the Chinese-Americans who died in World War II. In the 1970's, the local telephone company decorated the pay phones with pagoda style tops.

Chinatown today is rich in culture and the Chinese society. It continues to grow as immigrants continue to migrate to the neighborhood.

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