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46  INTRODUCING NE W Y ORK CIT Y

Multicultural New York City

Wherever you go in New York, even in pockets of the hectic
high-rise downtown, you will find evidence of the richly ethnic
flavor of the city. A bus ride can take you from Madras to
Moscow, Hong Kong to Haiti. Immigrants are still coming
to New York, though numbers are fewer than in the peak years
from 1880 to 1910, when 17 million people arrived. In the
1980s, a million newcomers, largely from Caribbean
countries and Asia, arrived and found their own special
corner of the city. Throughout the year you will encounter Hell’s Kitchen
crowds celebrating one of many festivals. To find out more For a while called “Clinton”
to reflect a new neighborhood
about national celebrations and parades, see pages 52–5. mix, this was the first home
of early Irish immigrants.
Little Korea
Not far from Herald
Square is a small
Korean enclave with a
variety of restaurants.
Midtown
West and the
Little Ukraine Theater
Services are held at District
St. George’s Church as part of
the May 17 festivities to mark the
Ukrainians’ conversion to Christianity.
Chelsea
and the
Garment Lower
District Midtown

Gramercy
Greenwich and the
Village Flatiron
District

East
Village
Little Italy
For 11 days in September, the Italian SoHo and
community gathers around the TriBeCa
Mulberry Street area, and the streets
are taken over by the celebrations of Lower East Side
the Festa di San Gennaro.
Lower Manhattan
and the Civic Center
Brooklyn

0 kilometers 2
0 miles 1 The Lower
East Side
The synagogues
Chinatown around Rivington
Every year, in January or and Eldridge streets
February, Mott Street is reflect the religious
packed as residents celebrate traditions of this
the Chinese New Year. old Jewish area.

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