Brooklyn Surpasses Manhattan’s Chinatown as an Asian Hub
BROOKLYN — Near Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst, a Chinese restaurant has two menus. One, “American Style,” is for the area’s longtime residents. The other, “Chinatown Style,” is for the Asian-Americans who have rapidly been moving into what for years had been an Italian-American stronghold.
In Sunset Park, in an industrial area, you see several garages and auto-repair businesses with Chinese lettering and Asian-American staffs. One of these automotive businesses shares its building with a Chinese restaurant that doesn’t have an English menu.
These everyday scenes are just illustrations of a report from the Asian American Federation that was released on Friday. The fact that during the past 10 years the population of those New Yorkers has increased by 30 percent really isn’t news.