Welcome to Chinatown

Street scene at Grand Street near Bowery - Lower East Side / Chinatown, Manhattan. [NEX6-2390 acr(R)PScc]

Chinatown Grocery

Through the tinted window of a taxi - passing through Chinatown/Lower East Side on my way home.

Forsyth Street Shadows

Late day shadows on Forsyth Street buildings. Another single-Raw HDR taken from a moving taxi.

Sara D, Roosevelt Park

Near Chinatown - at Forsyth Street & Hester Street

Lower East Side CityScapes

Two photos from the end of March - both taken from 20 floors up. First looking west over LES, Chinatown, FiDi, and Tribeca. The second, looking southwest over LES, Two Bridges, and Brooklyn in the background.

Grand Street

Grand Street (near Allen Street) around sundown. Twenty years ago the store signs were mostly English and Hebrew. Twenty years from now the language on the signs will probably change again. That's been the pattern of the Lower East Side for decades as new waves of immigrants pass through, each adding to the diversity of this great neighborhood.

Egg Rolls & Egg Creams

Performer at yesterday's annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival on Eldridge Street. The festival celebrates the cultural contributions & traditions of the Chinese and Jewish communities in America.

Chinatown

Interesting building in Chinatown at the corner of Canal Street and Centre Street. Part or all of this building may be vacant. There are a number of broken windows, especially on the 3rd level.

Chatham Towers

The concrete apartment towers in the foreground are Chatham Towers. The brick building in the background is Chatham Green - a long S-shaped structure that stretches for an entire city block. This is at Park Row & Chatham Square in Chinatown

Vertical Parking Lot

Another one of the parking lots that maximize space by using lifts to stack cars vertically.

iPod Billboard

Near the intersection of Canal and Walker Streets - 3 elements I often find interesting... billboard, graffiti and water tank

Kung Fu

Advertising kung fu lessons in Chinatown

Building Collapse - Continued

More from the site of the supermarket fire / Building Collapse in Chinatown, at East Broadway and Pike Street. The building which originally collapsed is completely torn down (left). The building to the right of that is now being torn down. There are reportedly at least 3 other buildings whose foundations were damaged and may be torn down.

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Chinatown Street

Signs along East Broadway in Chinatown

Building Collapse

2 for 1: The Hong Kong Supermarket (near Chinatown) caught fire Thursday night and the fire spread to the adjacent apartment building, which ultimately collapsed. It took firefighters 5 hours to put out the fire. The 2nd photo is from a few weeks ago.

Chatham Towers & Chatham Green (background) apartments near Chinatown.

Interesting signage in Chinatown. The sky is fake (was a dreary, overcast, rainy day)

Fresh seafood for sale on the streets of Chinatown.

Reflections in Chinatown, NYC
Camera: Sony DSC-H5