NEW YORK - Chinatown is likely to get its first Chinese-American representative on the City Council, and a Taiwanese immigrant is headed for citywide office - a dramatic change for the nation’s largest city, which had no Asian-Americans in elected office just eight years ago.
For the first time in its 150 years, the downtown Manhattan neighborhood, which is one of the biggest Chinese communities outside Asia, could be represented by a Chinese-American. Margaret Chin, whose family emigrated from Hong Kong in 1963 when she was 9, beat incumbent Alan Gerson in a Democratic primary last month and is expected to win the seat in November.
And in other news, Boston's North End welcomes its latest alderman, Patrick Sean Fitzgerald...
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The Chinese population in NY is only about 5% of NYCs total(8.3 million, last I heard), so it is a bit more newsworthy than someone of Irish extraction elected in Boston.
HTRN,
The North End of Boston could be characterized as Little Rome -- it is more Italian than Italy. I'm guessing you don't live anywhere near here.
Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown
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