Originally Posted by
Bham1982
The biggest Chinatowns in the U.S. don't receive any tourism. The biggest, by far, are Monterey Park [[east of LA) and Flushing, Queens. These two places [[and Sunset Park, Brooklyn is close behind) make Manhattan, Toronto, or SF Chinatowns look like tiny tourist trap potemkin villages.
Flushing is more of an urban-style Chinatown, but different from the traditional Chinatowns. It looks more like a mini-Hong Kong. Very glassy and glitzy new money style. Monterey Park is similar, but in a suburban format [[strip malls, tract homes, but fairly dense for a suburb).
NYC, LA, Toronto, and the Bay Area all have many Chinatowns scattered about. For NYC, I can think of at least six [[Manhattan, Sunset Park, Avenue U, 18th Avenue, Flushing, Elmhurst).