# First Chinatown ( 1870s-1961 ): The original Chinatown was centered near present-day Elizabeth and Hagerman street ().

# Old Chinatown ( 1950s-Present ): The present downtown Chinatown is centered at Spadina Avenue and Dundas street ().

Following the demolition of first Chinatown, the existing first Chinatown community migrated westward to the neighborhood around Spadina Chinatown's current location centered bounded by Spadina Avenue, Dundas Street, College Street and University Avenue.

The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the South Side ( located in the Armour Square community area ), centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood.

Chinatown consisted of a tunnel system underneath buildings and streets centered in the vicinity of Main and Sheridan Streets, Broadway and Robinson Avenues, but the extent of which is unknown and likely lost forever.

São Paulo, Brazil, has no permanent Chinatown, but the Chinese-Brazilian community is centered around the Liberdade district.

Nicaragua has no permanent Chinatown but the Chinese Nicaraguan community is centered around Managua and the Caribbean coast, most notably in Bluefields and Puerto Cabezas.

Chinatown is in the near South Side ( located in the Armour Square community area ), centered on and around Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood.

It was once home to a Chinatown neighborhood centered around Mulberry Arcade, which was off of Mulberry Street, near Lafayette and Green Streets.

The government district is an informal subdivision of the downtown core, and is centered along Macleod Trail, between the commercial core, Chinatown and Downtown East Village.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

Commenting on her design of a new home for the Museum of Chinese in America near New York City's bella Chinatown, Lin attached a personal significance to the project being a Chinese-related project because she wanted her two daughters to " know that part of their heritage.

His final stop was lunch at Engine Company 55, which lost five men, in Chinatown, where he delivered five $ 11 pizzas from Sal's on Broome Street.

Lee was born in Chinatown, San Francisco on 27 November 1940 to parents from Hong Kong and was raised in Kowloon with his family until his late teens.

Bruce Lee was born on 27 November 1940 at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco's Chinatown.

The Chinatown on Derrick Avenue in Cyrildene, Johannesburg is South Africa's largest Chinatown.

Rickshaws are a tourist attraction in the Asakusa region of Tokyo ; in the main temple area of Kyoto ; in tourist heavy areas of Kamakura ; on The Peak, Hong Kong ; in Vietnam on Cijin Island in Kaohsiung ; in areas of London's Chinatown, in Ottawa's Byward Market ; in downtown Toronto ; in Kathmandu, Nepal, and in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, ( Vietnam ).

Until these restrictions were relaxed in the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese immigrants were forced to live a life apart, and to build a society in which they could survive on their own ( Chinatown ).

The locality extends northwards from Chinatown, along both sides of Cockle Bay to King Street Wharf on the east, and to the suburb of Pyrmont on the west.

Lima residents refer to their Chinatown as Calle Capon, and the city's ubiquitous Chifa restaurantssmall, sit-down, usually Chinese-run restaurants serving the Peruvian spin on Chinese cuisinecan be found by the dozen in this Chinese enclave.

In Chinatown, San Francisco, there is a 12-foot statue of him on St. Mary's Square.

In late 2011, the Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic Of China, unveiled, in a Lion Dance Blessing ceremony, a memorial statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outside the Chinese Museum in Melbourne's Chinatown, on the spot where their traditional Chinese New Year Lion Dance always ends.

The former neighborhood known as Five Points is now split between the Civic Center on the west and south and Chinatown on the east and north.

Although Quimbo Appo is claimed to have arrived in the area during the 1840s, the first Chinese person credited as having permanently immigrated to Chinatown was Ah Ken, a Cantonese businessman, who eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row.

Later immigrants would similarly find work as " cigar men " or carrying billboards and Ah Ken's particular success encouraged cigar makers William Longford, John Occoo and John Ava to also ply their trade in Chinatown eventually forming a monopoly on the cigar trade.

It has been speculated that he may have been Ah Ken who kept a small boarding house on lower Mott Street and rented out bunks to the first Chinese immigrants to arrive in Chinatown.

Chinatown started on Mott Street, Park, Pell and Doyers streets, east of the notorious Five Points district.

The only park in Chinatown, Columbus Park, was built on what was once the center of the infamous Five Points neighborhood of New York.

On August 2011, a new branch of New York Supermarket opened on Mott Street in the center district of grocery and food shopping of Manhattan's Chinatown.

One analysis of census data in 2011 showed that Chinatown and heavily Chinese tracts on the Lower East Side had 47, 844 residents in the 2010 census, a decrease of nearly 9 % since 2000.

* Chinatown, Bangkok ( Yaowarat Road ) ( Thailand )

Many Chinatowns have a long history, such as Shinchimachi, the nearly three-century old Chinatown in Nagasaki, Japan, or Yaowarat Road in Bangkok, which was founded by Chinese traders more than 200 years ago, and the oldest Chinatown in the world located outside of China is in Binondo, Manila in the Philippines.

The Chinatown ( Thai: Yaowarat ) of Bangkok is located on Yaowarat Road and Sampeng Lane.

The city of Phuket is home to Thailand's second Chinatown, which are on Phang Nga Road, Thalang Road, Krabi Road, Phuket Road, Ratsada Road, Yaowarat Road, Deebook Road and Thepkrasattree Road Phuket was founded by early Chinese settlers.

) Nowadays, Yaowarat Road remains the heart of Bangkok's Chinatown.

Yaowarat Road () in Samphanthawong district is home to Bangkok's Chinatown, which is centred on Sam Pheng Lane (.

Modern Chinatown now covers a large area around Yaowarat and Charoen Krung Road.

Chinatown does not consist of only Yaowarat Road, but also includes others such as: Charoen Krung Road, Mungkorn Road, Songwat Road, Songsawat Road, Chakkrawat Road, etc.

Limehouse stretches from Limehouse Basin in the west to the edge of the former Chinatown in Pennyfields in the east ; and from the Thames in the south to the Victory Bridge at the junction of Ben Jonson Road and Rhodeswell Road in the north.

The city has developed an eclectic suburban " Chinatown " and " Koreatown ", mostly in the form of upscale strip malls mostly on Colima Road, with another concentration around Nogales Street.

The Stevenson's exit 293A ( northbound exit and southbound entrances ) gives Chinatown commuters immediate access to the expressways via Cermak Road, only one block east of Wentworth Avenue.

The north – south-running Red Line, the CTA's busiest transit route, stops regularly at the Cermak – Chinatown station located in the heart of Chinatown near the corner of Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue.

The Chinatown of Las Vegas, Nevada ( Chinese: 拉斯維加斯中國城 ( pinyin: Lāsīwéijiāsī Zhōngguóchéng ) is a series of large strip malls with ethnic Chinese and other pan-Asian businesses on Spring Mountain Road, with the original called Chinatown Plaza.

Spring Mountain Road was once a run-down corridor with strip clubs, but Chinatown Plaza and other adjacent power centers have emerged as an archetypal example of immigrants taking an old neighborhood given up for dead by the previous residents and reviving it with major investments as a bustling center of ethnic minority commerce.

Located on Spring Mountain Road between Valley View Boulevard and Arville Street, Chinatown Plaza ( 中國城, Mandarin: zhong guo cheng ) comprises of bustling immigrant commerce, with restaurants offering regional Chinese and Hong Kong cuisine as well as other Asian cuisine ( Filipino, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese ).

A long-closed northbound off-ramp to Chinatown was rebuilt and reopened as a southbound on-ramp from Surface Road.

Vendors are commonly found along Orchard Road, Chinatown and outside schools.

Vientiane contains a Chinatown on Samsenthai Road.