' is the capital and the largest municipality of Fujian province, People's Republic of China.The city is also referred to as Rongcheng ' ' onMouseout='HidePop("4856")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Fujian">Fujian
' is a province on the southeast coast of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...
), while the eastern portion is home to a large number of
JewAmerican Jews, also known as Jewish Americans, are American citizens or resident aliens of the Jewish faith and/or Jewish ethnicity. The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Central and Eastern Europe, and their U.S.-born descendants...
s. One section in the eastern part of East Broadway, between Clinton Street and Pitt Street, is unofficially referred to by residents as Shteibel Way, since it's lined with approximately ten small synagogues ("shteibels").
Transportation
The M9
busNew York City Transit buses, marked on the buses MTA New York City Bus , is a service of MTA Regional Bus Operations that operates in all five boroughs, employing roughly 4500 buses on about 200 local and 40 express routes within the five boroughs of New York City in the United States...
runs on East Broadway in both directions between
Chatham SquareChatham Square, or Kimlau Square as it is secondarily known, is a major intersection in Chinatown. The square lies at the confluence of seven streets in Manhattan: Bowery, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row...
and
Canal StreetCanal Street is a major street in New York City, crossing lower Manhattan to join New Jersey in the west to Brooklyn in the east . It forms the main spine of Chinatown, and separates it from Little Italy...
. The M15
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runs weekdays only on East Broadway in both directions between
Chatham SquareChatham Square, or Kimlau Square as it is secondarily known, is a major intersection in Chinatown. The square lies at the confluence of seven streets in Manhattan: Bowery, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row...
and
Canal StreetCanal Street is a major street in New York City, crossing lower Manhattan to join New Jersey in the west to Brooklyn in the east . It forms the main spine of Chinatown, and separates it from Little Italy...
. The downtown M22
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runs westward on East Broadway between Pike Street and
Chatham SquareChatham Square, or Kimlau Square as it is secondarily known, is a major intersection in Chinatown. The square lies at the confluence of seven streets in Manhattan: Bowery, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row...
.
The
East BroadwayEast Broadway is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. There is an abandoned tower at the north end of the island platform. The station has two mezzanines, four open staircases, three closed staircases, and one escalator...
station of the
IND Sixth Avenue LineThe Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in the United States. It runs mainly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and continues south through the Rutgers Street Tunnel to Brooklyn. It was the last trunk line of the Independent Subway System, completed...
(
FThe F Sixth Avenue Local is a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. It is colored orange on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs on the IND Sixth Avenue Line through Manhattan....
) is located near East Broadway.
Fuzhou Immigrants and Community Establishments
In recent years, East Broadway has been a central hub for recently arrived
FujianeseFujianese refers to someone or something related to or originating in Fujian. This may be:* The Hokkien dialect of Fujian Province and Taiwan, including Amoy dialect and Taiwanese...
(mainly Foochowese) immigrants(more than half are illegal immigrants). With a large Foochowese population, East Broadway is often referred to as
Little Fuzhou' is the capital and the largest municipality of Fujian province, People's Republic of China.The city is also referred to as Rongcheng ' ' onMouseout='HidePop("18143")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Changle">Changle
ChangLe is a county-level city of suburban Fuzhou located in east Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Administered by Fuzhou city. Changle occupies a land area of 648 square kilometers and a sea area of 1327 square kilometers. Changle was established in the sixth year of Emperor Wu-De...
County, Fuzhou,
Fujian' is a province on the southeast coast of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...
. The Fukien American Association is also located here. Restaurants, markets and intercity bus lines run by Foochowese concentrate in East Broadway. A statue of
Lin ZexuLin Zexu Lin Zexu Lin Zexu ; (August 30, 1785 – November 22, 1850) was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing dynasty....
, who was also a Foochowese, was erected in
Chatham SquareChatham Square may refer to:* Chatham Square, Manhattan, at the confluence of several streets, Bowery, East Broadway, St. James Place, Worth Street, Park Row, and Mott Street....
in 1997.
In more recent years, fewer new Fuzhou immigrants have settled in Manhattan's Chinatown. Instead, there has been a large increase in the influx of Fuzhou immigrants moving into
BrooklynBrooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located southwest of Queens on the western tip of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area...
's Chinatown on 8th Avenue in
Sunset ParkSunset Park is a neighborhood in the western section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. It bounded by 25th Street and Greenwood Heights on the north, 9th Avenue, and Borough Park on the east, 65th Street and Bay Ridge on the south and Upper New York Bay on the west....
and that community is increasing more quickly than that of Manhattan. Currently the Fuzhou community established on East Broadway and surrounding streets within Manhattan's Chinatown is the largest Fuzhou Community/Population establishment in NYC, however with the rapidly increasing Fuzhou population in Brooklyn's Chinatown, it is very quickly becoming the New Little Fuzhou). Brooklyn's Chinatown becoming the New Little Fuzhou will be more like Fuzhou Town than
Little Fuzhou because not only is it emerging within most of Brooklyn's Chinatown, but also beyond the current borderlines of the Chinese Community.