According to wikipedia, New York City has the largest number of ethnic Chinese outside of China. Why? What were the causes behind this?

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lordtiandao

What? According to the 2012 census, the NYC Metropolitan area had 735,019 Chinese-Americans, with NYC itself having 522,619. Meanwhile, over 70% of Singapore's 5 million population is ethnic Chinese, so how does your question make any sense?