Little Italy - Chinatown Real Estate

Chinatown and Little Italy are two of New York’s most well-known ethnic neighborhoods. Walking through the streets beneath the fire escapes of turn-of-the-century tenements, your senses are awakened by the sights, sounds, and smells of the Italian and Chinese cuisines and cultures emerging from restaurants and shops.

Little Italy extends north of Houston Street up Sullivan and Thompson Streets; small coffee shops and family restaurants—and their 21st century counterparts—tempt passersby to sample the homemade cooking. Visitors come here for authentic cuisine and a taste of old New York.

Chinatown starts on Canal Street with storefronts spilling onto the sidewalk and the art of negotiation being finessed over everything from "designer" handbags to electronics. Manhattan's Chinatown is one of the largest Chinese communities outside Asia. It is not unusual to enter a street where all signs are in Chinese and where the stores are run without any English-speaking representatives. You’ll find the majority of dining choices along the narrow, winding Mott and Mulberry Streets just below Canal Street.

Little Italy hosts the San Gennaro festival and in February the Chinese New Year is celebrated with dragon dances, parades and other traditional ceremonies, and thousands of tourists, residents and visitors join in the festivities. Apartment prices vary from block to block, from some of the cheapest in the city to higher-priced dwellings drawing residents who love the desirable downtown location.