SUNSET PARK

Eighth Avenue is a Chinatown the guidebooks skipped

Sunset Park, the waterfront and the terminal.

The Bush Terminal Company building with a bronze statue above its doorway — Bush Terminal: the reason there was work on this shoreline at all.Bush Terminal Company · Wikimedia Commons

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The Chinatown that grew after the others filledSunset Park's Chinese community formed later than Manhattan's and is largely Fujianese, which shows in the shops and on the menus.
A private port with its own railwayBush Terminal was an industrial waterfront city — piers, warehouses and rail — and its remains still shape the shoreline.

A brick church in Sunset Park with Chinese and English signage over the entrance — The Church of Grace to Fujianese names the community precisely.Church of Grace to Fujianese, Sixth Avenue at 52nd Street · Wikimedia Commons

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