The new flux of Chinese immigration stems from late 1981, when the U.S. government raised the quota on immigration from Taiwan and the mainland to 20,000 a year each. The population of New York's Chinatown now numbers from 100,000 to 150,000.
一九八一年年底，美國政府通過台灣與中國大陸移民名額每年各增為兩萬名之後，華人移民數量大增，其中不少聚集到紐約一帶，目前紐約華埠有華人十至十五萬人。