Asian American
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Philadelphia
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. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC, ) supports the area. The neighborhood stretches from Vine Street on the north; Arch Street on the south; North Franklin Street and North 7th Street on the east; to North Broad Street on the west.
Unlike some traditional Chinatowns, the Philadelphia Chinatown continues to grow in size and ethnic Chinese population, as Philadelphia itself is, as of 2018, experiencing significant Chinese immigration from
New York City
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, to the north, and (as of 2019) from
China
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, the top country of birth by a significant margin sending immigrants to Philadelphia.
History
In the mid-late 19th century,
Cantonese
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immigrants to Philadelphia opened
laundries
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and
restaurants
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in an area near Philadelphia's commercial wharves. This led to the start of Philadelphia's Chinatown.Wallace, David J. "Near Philadelphia's Chinatown, 51 New Homes." ''
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''. March 8, 1998 p. 3 Retrieved on November 8, 2011. The first business was a laundry owned by Lee Fong at 913 Race Street; it opened in 1871. In the following years, Chinatown consisted of ethnic Chinese businesses clustered around the 900 block of Race Street. Before the mid-1960s it consisted of several restaurants and one grocery store.''
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'' Staff and ''
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AsianWeek
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''. November 24–30, 2000. Retrieved on November 8, 2011.
In the mid-1960s, large numbers of families began moving to Chinatown. During various periods of
urban renewal
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, starting in the 1960s, portions of Chinatown were razed for the construction of the
Vine Street Expressway
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and the
Pennsylvania Convention Center
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. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation was formed in 1968. This gave community and business leaders more say in matters of local development.
In the late 1990s, the
Philadelphia Phillies
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baseball team was hoping to build a new ballpark in downtown Philadelphia to replace the aging
Veterans Stadium
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in South Philadelphia. Several locations were considered, including 12th and Vine Streets, just north of the
Vine Street Expressway
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. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation mounted an intense opposition to the ballpark plans. Residents were concerned that the ballpark would destroy Chinatown. The PCDC staged protests and rallies that united neighborhood groups, religious, labor, ethnic, and political groups. Eventually the Phillies built
Citizens Bank Park
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at the
South Philadelphia Sports Complex
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, which opened in 2004. In years leading up to 1998, businesses catering to other immigrants from East and Southeast Asian countries, like
Korea
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,
Thailand
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, and
Vietnam
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, opened in Chinatown.
In 2012, a plan to build the Eastern Tower Community Center (renamed "Crane Chinatown" since Nov 2018) was approved by the city council. Construction of this prominent community center began in August 2017. The official opening and dedication ceremony was held on November 8, 2019.
Cityscape
Vine Street
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is the northern boundary of Chinatown. Restaurants and shops, with apartment units located above, are in the buildings south of Vine street, within Chinatown. Factories and other industrial properties are located on the other side of Vine Street.Wallace, David J. "Near Philadelphia's Chinatown, 51 New Homes." ''
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''. March 8, 1998 1 Retrieved on November 8, 2011. Filbert Street serves as the southern border.Wallace, David J. "Near Philadelphia's Chinatown, 51 New Homes." ''
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''. March 8, 1998 2 Retrieved on November 8, 2011. Chinatown includes a core area that has seven
city block
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A city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within t ...
s. Many of the residents of the block were, as of 1998, recent immigrants.
Developments in the 20th century formed the current boundaries of the Philadelphia Chinatown. In the 1920s, ramps leading to the
Benjamin Franklin Bridge
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were constructed at Chinatown's northern edge. At another point, the city condemned an area east of what is now Chinatown so that the new headquarters of the
Philadelphia Police Department
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, Independence Mall, and a hospital could be constructed. At one point the city proposed building an eight lane highway that would divide the Philadelphia Chinatown into two parts and eliminate the Holy Redeemer Church and School. The church and school remained, while the
Vine Street Expressway
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, smaller than its original proposed size, was built. Cecelia Yep, one of the founders of the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Coalition, said "I think we saw it as a plan to get rid of Chinatown. he church and schoolwas the only thing good in Chinatown at the time. We thought it was a fight for survival." The construction of the Market East Station in the 1970s and 1980s established Filbert Street as Chinatown's southern border. As a result of the construction of the
Pennsylvania Convention Center
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, which opened in 1993, the Chinatown buildings on
Arch Street
Arch Street is a major east-west street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
History
The street was called Mulberry Street in William Penn's original city grid, but it was renamed Arch in 1854. Other parts of the street were once called Hol ...
, up to the intersection of 13th Street, were demolished. In addition, a federal prison, the
Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia
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, opened in the area. ''
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'' said "Each was built with much compromising, and now they form a circle around Chinatown’s current core of about five city blocks."
By 1998, community leaders had taken a property bounded by 8th Street, 9th Street, Callowhill, and Vine in order to establish a US$7 million townhome complex called Hing Wah Yuen (, "Prosperous Chinese Garden").
Demographics
As of the
2000 U.S. Census
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, the service area of the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation had 1,362 residents in 459 households. Of the residents, 1,085 were
Asian American
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, 152 were
White American
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, 71 were
African American
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, 31 were of other races, and 23 were
Hispanic American
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. During that year the community had 509 housing units, with 50 of them being vacant and 85 of them being owner occupied.
As of 1998 the wider Chinatown area had about 4,000 residents. Many of them worked in clothing assembly companies, restaurants, and related suppliers located in the area. As of that year, most residents were
Chinese American
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. As of the 1990 U.S. Census the median income of Chinatown was under $15,000. The median income of the 47,000 residents of
Center City Philadelphia
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as a whole was $60,000. As of 2000, of the 4,000 residents of the wider area, about 70% have no English fluency.
The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation said that the area also serves about 250,000 Chinese Americans residing in
Delaware
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,
New Jersey
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, and
Pennsylvania
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.Fuzhounese and other Chinese Americans are immigrating from New York City in significant numbers.
Landmarks
The Chinatown Friendship Gate at 10th and Arch Street is a symbol of cultural exchange and friendship between Philadelphia and its
Chinese
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**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
sister city
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While there are early examples of inter ...
of
Tianjin
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. Launched by the Port Agreement signed in Tianjin, China, on November 11, 1982, the Gate was commissioned by the Department of Commerce and the Department of Public Property. It was completed in the winter of 1983-84 and dedicated on January 31, 1984.
The Gate is the first authentic Chinese Gate built in America by artisans from China. Weighing about 88 tons and standing 40 feet high, the Gate has bright colors and elaborate designs that reflect early Chinese imperial construction. It has themes of mythical creatures and graphic patterns typical of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. A procession of mythical animals is featured on tiles. The phoenix is meant to ensure good luck. The dragon, said to have the magical power of retaining water in its mouth, is intended to protect the structure of the Gate and the community from fire. The four traditional Chinese characters on both sides of the Gate are, "費城華埠" (Fèichéng huá bù), which means Philadelphia Chinatown.
The Gate was repainted in 2008 with the help of Tianjin artisans using ancient techniques and traditional materials and funded by the City of Philadelphia and the help of Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation. The Gate was rededicated on November 19, 2008.
Culinary attractions
Chinatown features a large number of restaurants featuring East Asian cuisines. 10th Street and Race Street host nearly a dozen different Hong Kong-style bakery cafes. Furthermore, there are restaurants serving Cantonese, Fujianese, Northern, Sichuan, and Taiwanese cuisine. Numerous restaurants in Philadelphia's Chinatown feature other Asian cuisines, such as Burmese,
Japanese
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** Japanese diaspor ...
,
Korean
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People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
and
Vietnamese
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** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
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.
Transportation
The
Chinatown
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station on
SEPTA
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's
Broad-Ridge Spur
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SEPTA Regional Rail
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is only a block from the Chinatown Friendship Gate. The
Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal
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is located in the neighborhood, adjacent to Jefferson Station, and SEPTA also provides local bus transportation to the area.
At one time
China Airlines
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provided a private complimentary bus service from the Holy Redeemer Church in the Philadelphia Chinatown to
John F. Kennedy International Airport
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in
New York City
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to facilitate transportation for passengers for its flights to
Taipei
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,
Taiwan
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.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
The
School District of Philadelphia
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
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''. October 6, 1998 Article info B01 City & Region. Retrieved on November 29, 2015. a
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located in
Society Hill
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The ''Dail ...
''. May 28, 1994 Article info 06 Local. Retrieved on November 8, 2011. south of Chinatown. As of 2005 most Chinatown residents who are unable to afford tuition to send their children to private school send their children to McCall.Chinatown to get charter school
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North Philadelphia
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School District of Philadelphia
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. p. 30/70. Retrieved on November 16, 2016. Previously most area residents were zoned to Horace Furness High School in
charter school
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, is located in Chinatown.
In 1993 the school district began a school bus route between Chinatown and McCall. The school is away from the furthest point of Chinatown. The district was not required to install the route, but parents advocated for the route because they believed that traffic at Market Street and Washington Square endangered their children. When the district proposed cutting the route in 1994, parents complained.
In a two-year period until 1998, the number of Chinese students at McCall doubled. In 1998 Chinese students were 25% of McCall's 650 person student body. By September 1998 the school, which had 650 students, established a bilingual English-Chinese program to serve Chinese immigrant students, and that month it began hiring teachers fluent in both languages to teach core subjects.
As of 1998 there were no public schools within Chinatown itself. In 2005 the Philadelphia School Reform Commission approved the creation of the charter school FACTS in Chinatown. At the time the Chinatown Community Development Corporation opposed the creation of the charter school, saying that it was not necessary and that it would hurt enrollment figures at McCall and Holy Redeemer.
Private schools
The
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
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operates Catholic schools. The Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church and School () was constructed in 1941. David J. Wallace of ''
The New York Times
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'' said that it was "a leading Chinatown institution." Historically many Chinatown residents enrolled their children in the school, and the community used the church and school complex as a meeting place and a community center. In the 1990s the school lost much of its schoolyard due to expansion of the
Vine Street Expressway
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. In 2005 it was the only school in Chinatown.
Colleges and libraries
The nearest branch of the
Free Library of Philadelphia
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is the Independence Branch () in
Society Hill
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Free Library of Philadelphia
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Chinese American
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*
Koreatown, Philadelphia
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*
Little Saigon, Philadelphia
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Philadelphia City Paper
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Philadelphia
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