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Street by Street: Little Italy and Chinatown

Manhattan’s largest and most colorful ethnic neighborhood is Chinatown, which
is growing so rapidly that it is running into nearby Little Italy as well as the Lower
East Side. Streets here teem with grocery stores, gift shops, and hundreds of
Chinese restaurants; even the plainest offer good food. What is left of Little Italy
can be found at Mulberry and Grand streets, where old-world flavor abounds. T
T E S T R E E

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The market stalls
on Canal Street A F A Y E
have a wide range L G R A N D
of bargains in new
and used clothes T
and fresh produce.
C E N T E R S T R E E T

T R E E
S

R
E
A Y
Canal Street B
subway
(lines R, N, Q, 6)
The Eastern States C A N A L S T R E E T
Buddhist Temple
5. Chinatown
Home to a thriving – and still expanding at 64b Mott Street
– community of Chinese immigrants, contains over 100
this area is famous for its restaurants and golden Buddhas.
hectic street life. The area truly comes M U L B E R R Y S T R E E T
alive around the Chinese New Year in
January or February. B A Y A R D S T R E E T

7 Columbus Park P E L L S T R E E T
Once a slum, this park now fills
with residents playing mahjong.
Bloody Angle, where Doyers Street Chatham Square has a memorial dedicated
turns sharply, was the gruesome site to the Chinese-American war dead, and to
of many gangland ambushes during Lin Zexu, a Qing dynasty official, revered for
the 1920s.
his crackdown on the opium trade.

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