Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City. Said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves outside mainland China and Taiwan. In the mid-1800s, the city's first Chinese settlers built small but thriving businesses -- notably selling cigars. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2018.