chinatown

On the contrary, Chinatown is changing rapidly, and the Chinatown we know today will likely be gone very soon.

Manhattan's Chinatown is pretty small (the Mandarin-speaking Chinatown out in Queens is much larger), and yet there are people born and raised there who only speak Cantonese.

More recent middle class Chinese immigrants avoid Chinatown for the same reason and go directly to the suburbs.

The Empress of China, a landmark restaurant of Chinatown since the 60's, closed at the end of last year to make way for offices.

Oh most Chinese food in Chinatown is overrated, shops are ok.

Much rather have cocktail waitresses and air conditioned halls with security guards than sneak through a seedy Chinatown restaurant with false doors and scary looking guys.

The one thing can be said about the mission is that along with old Chinatown and excelsior they are the immigrant neighborhoods, but the characteristics of the immigrants to these neighborhoods have changed over time and only old Chinatown has held on to its ethnic look and feel, but looking at it through that lens is unhelpful.

I expected more serious, but security was as strict as a DC-NYC Chinatown bus.

Definitely; I agree with you on the demographic trends, but for the moment it's still pretty much the same chinatown as always IMO -- definitely not gentrifying in the way the mission is.

Conversely, Chinatown really isn't changing much; it resists gentrification.

Younger people tend to move to outer neighborhoods in SF, or to Daly City or the other peninsula suburbs, as Chinatown is actually a ghetto despite also being a romanticized tourist attraction.

> Chinatown really isn't changing much; it resists gentrification.

Also, I put "wealthy" in scare quotes, because this dynamic also applies to areas like Chinatown or the Hasidic Jew communities of Brooklyn.

I'm preparing my youtube->mp4->mp3 chain right now so I can try it out on Jets to Brazil's "Chinatown." (It goes youtube-dl.exe then ffmpeg, but I hated the shifty windows 7zip program b/c it tried to install a new browser, so I'm using Cygwin's 7zip to decompress windows ffmpeg and cygwin is updating everything under the sun, including emacs...).

To me, downtown stretches from Belltown to Chinatown: the Space Needle marks one edge whereas Uwajimaya might mark another.

A six-floor building with some 62,000 square feet of space inside Chinatown's scant 24 square blocks is no small matter.

This position will operate out of our NYC office located in Chinatown/Little Italy.