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The number of Asian residents in Manhattan’s Chinatown dropped by over 20% in the past decade despite an increase in the neighborhood’s overall population, according to a recent report published by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Experts on the history of Chinatown and community advocates said the demographic shift is a predictable result of gentrification, as boba shops and hot pot restaurants catering to a broader clientele replaced more affordable eateries that sustained working-class Asian American immigrants in the neighborhood…