East Broadway (Manhattan) - Little Fuzhou, Brooklyn (小福州, 布鲁克林華埠)

Little Fuzhou, Brooklyn (小福州, 布鲁克林華埠)

In even more recent years, the growth of newly arriving Fuzhou immigrants to Manhattan's Chinatown has been slowing due to increasing gentrification in Chinatown. Some Chinese landlords, especially the many real estate agencies in Manhattan's Chinatown mainly of Cantonese descent, have been accused of prejudice against the Fuzhou immigrants, supposedly making Fuzhou immigrants feel unwelcome with concerns that they will not be able to pay rent secondary to debt to gangs that may have helped smuggled them in illegally into the United States and out of fear that gangs will come up to the apartments to cause trouble. There is also supposedly concern that Fujianese are more likely to make the apartments too overcrowded by subdividing an apartment into multiple very tiny spaces to rent to other Fuzhou immigrants. Manhattan's Little Fuzhou has perhaps the most blatant results of illegal apartment subdivisions including having many bunk beds in just one small room. As a result of fear of being evicted by Cantonese landlords, many Fuzhou immigrants resort to renting a tiny space from Fujianese landlords inside apartments already occupied by Fuzhou immigrants.

The increasing Fuzhou influx to New York City has shifted to the Brooklyn Chinatown (布鲁克林華埠 唐人街) in the recent decade because Manhattan's Chinatown has become overcrowded, but also given their desire to continue to live in a Chinese community. This newer Chinatown and its own satellite Chinatowns within New York City's borough of Brooklyn are now the most preferable Chinese communities for them to settle, especially with increasing influx of Fuzhou homeowners who have subdivided their homes into apartments like many other ethnic immigrants have done once they became successful homeowners. This has opened opportunities as well provided as a new nexus for newly arriving Fuzhou immigrants to New York City to rent an apartment in Brooklyn's Chinatown by Fuzhou landlords with supposedly less housing discrimination in contrast to Cantonese landlords who are perceived to be more likely not to want Fuzhou tenants in their properties. However, there have been cases where Fuzhou landlords as well have discriminated against Fuzhou tenants by charging high rent prices.

Brooklyn's Chinatown has become the satellite Little Fuzhou of New York City but may soon surpass the one within Manhattan's Chinatown as such, if not already so. Property values have risen substantially due to the rapidly increasing Fuzhou population concentration in Brooklyn.