Over 200,000
Chinese Americans live throughout the southern parts of Brooklyn, primarily concentrated in
Sunset Park,
Bensonhurst,
Gravesend, and
Homecrest. Brooklyn is the borough that is home to the highest number of
Chinatowns in New York City. The largest concentration is in Sunset Park along 8th Avenue, which has become known for its
Chinese culture since the opening of the now-defunct Winley Supermarket in 1986 spurred widespread settlement in the area. It is called
"Brooklyn's Chinatown" and originally it was a small Chinese enclave with
Cantonese speakers being the main
Chinese population during the late 1980s and 1990s, but since the 2000s, the Chinese population in the area dramatically shifted to majority
Fuzhounese Americans, which contributed immensely to expanding this Chinatown, and bestowing the nicknames "
Fuzhou Town (), Brooklyn" or the "
Little Fuzhou ()" of Brooklyn. Many
Chinese restaurants can be found throughout Sunset Park, and the area hosts a popular
Chinese New Year celebration. Since the 2000s going forward, the growing concentration of the Cantonese speaking population in Brooklyn have dramatically shifted to Bensonhurst/Gravesend and Homecrest creating newer Chinatowns of Brooklyn and these newer Brooklyn Chinatowns are known as "Brooklyn's Little Hong Kong/Guangdong" due to their Chinese populations being overwhelmingly Cantonese populated.