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Chinatown, London. Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street. It contains a number of Chinese restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, souvenir shops, and other Chinese-run businesses ...
London. 51°30′46″N 0°7′52″W. / 51.51278°N 0.13111°W / 51.51278; -0.13111. Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. The area was developed from farmland ...
The Quartier Asiatique is the largest Chinatown in Europe, and unlike the diminutive but well-known Chinese district around Gerrard Street in London's Soho, it represents a significant population center as the result of very considerable immigration. The area is populated by nearly 50,000 people, largely of Chinese, Vietnamese and Laotian descent.
Washington Heights. 155th Street to Dyckman Street. Hudson Heights (part of Washington Heights) 181st Street to Fort Tryon Park west of Broadway. West Harlem. 125th to 155th Streets; St. Nicholas Avenue to Broadway. Hamilton Heights (part of Harlem) 135th to 155th Streets; Broadway to the Hudson River. Manhattanville.
The Canal Street station is a New York City Subway station complex. It is located in the neighborhoods of Chinatown and SoHo in Manhattan and is shared by the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, and the BMT Nassau Street Line. It is served by the 6, J, N, and Q trains at all times; the R train at all times except late nights; the ...
Coordinates: 51.51419°N 0.13456°W. Wardour Street, looking north from outside St Anne's Church. Wardour Street ( / ˈwɔːrdɔːr /) is a street in Soho, City of Westminster, London. It is a one-way street that runs north from Leicester Square, through Chinatown, across Shaftesbury Avenue to Oxford Street. Throughout the 20th century the West ...
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Soho, in the City of Westminster. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Soho viz. Oxford Street to the north, Charing Cross Road to the east, Shaftesbury Avenue to the south and Regent Street to the west. Air Street – believed to be a corruption of ...
Gerrard Street, London. Coordinates: 51.5117°N 0.1311°W. Gerrard Street is highly decorated for special occasions, here for Chinese New Year 2004. Gerrard Street ( Chinese: 爵祿街; pinyin: Juélù Jiē) is a street in the West End of London, in the Chinatown area. The street was built between 1677 and 1685 and originally named Gerrard ...