Your city's Chinatown

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Docere

Summing up by approximate Chinatown Chinese population. All from census tracts unless otherwise stated.

Manhattan 50,000 (report on NY/Boston/Philadelphia Chinatown)
San Francisco 19,000 (94108 and 94133)
Chicago 8,000
Toronto 7,500
Boston 5,500
Los Angeles 5,500
Oakland 4,000
Vancouver 3,000
Philadelphia 2,500
Seattle 1,000
Montreal 500
Washington less than 500

Where are you getting these numbers? Chicago's Chinatown is home to over 20,000 people of Chinese decent.

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

^^^As a mere visitor to NYC who typically stays in Manhattan, I'd definitely go to Manhattan's before Flushing's. To me it's like Inner Richmond in SF - it's better and larger, but more difficult to get to and offers less for visitors/tourists and more for residents. Flushing and Inner Richmond are also both not photogenic, at all. Meanwhile, Manhattan's and SF's Chinatowns are two of the most photogenic in the world (personally I'd say SF's even more so than Manhattan's).

But other than that, I get your point. If I lived in NYC and wanted better Chinese food and not to deal with any touristy stuff and had more time and knew the transit system better, I could easily see going to Flushing or any number of other NYC Chinatowns before the one in Manhattan.

And since when is Flushing, Queens not photogenic? Manhattan's Chinatown is comparatively kind of lame IMO.