Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

On this day in 1907, the New York Times printed an article that, in hindsight, teems with explicit racism.  Entitled “Chinatown Doomed to Make Way for Bowery Park,” the piece is a snapshot of how many cityfolk perceived Chinatown at the turn of the century.  The crux of the argument – replacing Chinatown with a [...]

In writing yesterday’s post about the imminent demolition of 185-191 Bowery, we came across a fascinating period piece on the Bowery dating back to the turn-of-the-century.  Published ninety-four years ago, almost to the day, in the New York Times Magazine, this article explores the newfound freedom attained after the Third Avenue El trackwork was relocated [...]

Google Maps has no love for Doyers or Pell Street; the “street view” function is not available for any address in this narrow slice of Chinatown.  It’s almost as if the roving Google camera car got lost (or lazy) and never had the chance to catalog this section of real estate.

But it’s probably for the [...]

It was only a matter of time before all the neighborhood filming for USA Networks’ White Collar finally premiered on the small screen. Episode number six (“All In”), which aired this past Friday, was focused in “the seedy underbelly of New York’s Chinatown.”  The protagonists are in pursuit of villains through their high-stakes games of Pai [...]