Life in NYC｜Exploring new Chinatown in Brooklyn – Bensonhurst – Used to be Brooklyn's Little Italy

Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the NYC borough of Brooklyn.


Bensonhurst contains several major ethnic enclaves. Traditionally, it is known as a Little Italy of Brooklyn due to its large Italian-American population. Bensonhurst also has the largest population of residents born in China and Hong Kong of any neighborhood in NYC and is now home to Brooklyn's second Chinatown.


In the early 20th century, many Italians and Jewish migrants moved into the neighborhood, and prior to World War II, the neighborhood was about equally Jewish and Italian. In the 1940s, under pressure of an influx of immigrants from southern Italy moving in, leaving the area predominantly Italian.

Around 1989, an influx of immigrants from China and the former USSR began to arrive, mainly from Southern China, Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia.

In the 2000s, Bensonhurst rapidly grew in cultural diversity. Bensonhurst is home to many ethnic Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Albanian, Bosnian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Uzbek, Arab, Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Pakistani, Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, Ecuadorian, and Puerto Rican Americans.


Like Lower Manhattan's Little Italy, Bensonhurst's Little Italy and its Italian-American population are declining, with the rapid expansion of its Chinatown and Chinese population.

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