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Doyers Street and Pell Street, Chinatown, New York, New York ca. 1900
Vintage Photograph Shows Pell Street and Doyers Street in Chinatown Circa 1900
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This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the intersection of Pell Street and Doyers Street in the heart of Chinatown. For contrast, here is a Google StreetView of how the…

Canal Street and Broadway, New York, New York, 1984
Vintage New York City Photograph Shows Corner of Canal Street and Broadway in 1984
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Uploaded to OldSchoolCool by Redditor rachmaninoffkills, this great vintage photograph shows the southeast corner of Canal Street and Broadway on the SoHo/Tribeca border back in 1984. Here…

Mott Street, New York City ca. 1900
Check Out This Vintage Photograph of Mott Street in Chinatown Circa 1900
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This great vintage photograph captured around 1900 shows Mott Street in Chinatown looking north from the corner of Worth Street. Here is a Google StreetView of the same view today, showing…

Lantern Side of Hester Street, New York City
Vintage Photograph Shows the "Lantern Side of Hester Street" in 1903
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This great vintage photograph from the U.S. National Archives shows the "Lantern Side of Hester Street" in 1903. At the time, the immigrant-settled Lower East Side had a very large Jewish…

How Nom Wah Tea Parlor Keeps Old Chinatown Old | Generation Next | Bon Appetit
[VIDEO] Here's How Nom Wah Tea Parlor Helps Keep Chinatown Old School
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First opening in 1920, Nom Wah Tea Parlor on the bendy Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown is one of the oldest restaurants in the City. In this video from Bon Appétit, learn how current…

Feb. 17, 1969: Celebrations on Mott Street to ring in 4667, the Year of the Rooster, favored the lion to the dragon, which, though “there is a tremendous difference between a dragon and a lion in the Chinese tradition,” The Times reported, the main difference to the casual observer “is that dragons are about 30 feet long and require 17 men or boys to operate, while the lions are short and need only two men.” Indeed, “to be chosen to play the head of a lion is, for a Chinese male interested in the martial arts, a matter of prestige.”
Vintage Photograph Shows Chinese New Year Celebrations on Mott Street in 1969
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…

Chinatown 1964
Vintage Photo Shows Bowery and Pell in Chinatown, Manhattan Circa 1964
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This vintage photograph recently dug up by our friends at Forgotten New York shows the intersection of Bowery and Pell St., in Manhattan's Chinatown around 1964. Infrastructurally, there’s a…

Vintage Photograph Shows New York Skyline From Atop the Manhattan Bridge Circa 1915
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This incredible photograph of Manhattan's Civic Center and Two Bridges neighborhoods was snapped around 1915 from atop the pedestrian path of the Manhattan Bridge. Here is a Google Street…

Vintage Photograph of the Bowery and 3rd Avenue Elevated Tracks Circa 1905
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The Bowery is one of only two roads in Manhattan that have no suffix. It's not Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue, it's simply Bowery. Can you name the other? In this vintage shot from around…

Mr. Soo, East Broadway, 1982.
Bud Glick's Fantastic Snapshots of Chinatown in the Early 1980's
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Back in 1980, photographer Bud Glick moved from Milwaukee to the City to be a documentary photographer for the Museum of Chinese in America, then called "The New York Chinatown History…