Birth of a Brooklyn Chinatown
This avenue in Sunset Park was chosen partly because its number sounds like the Chinese word for "prosper."
What is Eighth Avenue?
This nonprofit project manager spearheaded the drive to create a social services agency for Brooklyn's Asian-American community.
Who is Paul Mak?
BCA's first large-scale project, held less than a month after its founding.
What is a Lunar New Year Parade?
BCA implemented this program for young people in late 1991.
What is the youth after-school program?
The number of pre-schoolers currently enrolled across BCA's eight day care centers.
What is more than 700?
This immigrant group's main employment source, the local waterfront, closed in the 1980s, devastating Sunset Park's economy before the Chinese arrived.
Who are Scandinavian immigrants?
These two personal qualities of Paul Mak's are credited with keeping BCA alive during its 1991 financial crisis.
What are diligence and optimism (or perseverance and tenacity)?
The percentage growth in business and Asian population in Sunset Park within one year of that parade.
What is 300%?
In 1993, BCA established this senior facility along with its adult literacy program.
What is the 8th Avenue Senior Center?
The number of public school students BCA's after-school programs serve daily.
What is more than 1,000?
By 1988, this many Asian-American-operated businesses existed in Sunset Park.
What is 12?
The official founding date of the Eighth Avenue Community Chinese-American Association of Brooklyn.
What is January 19, 1988?
A petition BCA initiated after the Mui case led to the assignment of Sunset Park's first one of these.
What is a bilingual police officer?
This address is where BCA renovated an abandoned garment factory in 1994, adding a day care center and its Main Community Development Center.
What is 5000 Eighth Avenue?
The number of students BCA's Summer Day Camp serves each year.
What is over 2,000?
The approximate Asian-American population in Sunset Park by 1988.
What is 3,000?
This hall, located at 3906 Eighth Avenue, hosted the association's official founding.
What is the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Hall?
BCA's first government grant, received in 1990, came in this amount from the NY State Office of Mental and Developmental Disabilities.
What is $8,000?
This medical center partnered with BCA on Brooklyn's first major Asian community needs survey and later opened the first bilingual clinic for local Chinese residents.
What is Lutheran Medical Center?
In 1994, a BCA-led campaign halted the construction of this type of waterfront facility.
What is a sludge management plant?
Chinese immigrants nicknamed this station the "blue sky" station because it was the first stop above ground in Brooklyn.
What is the Eighth Avenue Station?
In this year, Paul Mak resigned his salaried job to become the Association's first full-time volunteer.
What is 1990?
This 1991 economic event nearly forced BCA to completely shut down by April of that year.
What is the recession (budget crisis)?
This year marked the start of BCA's first early childhood educational program.
What is 1995?
BCA protested Mayor Bloomberg's decision to permanently close this neighboring facility.
What is Engine 278 (firehouse)?