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Our Chinatown Landmarks Story Stroll
Our Stories, Our Chinatown Landmarks is an ongoing audio exploration of memory and place, produced by Think!Chinatown. Through a story stroll around the neighborhood, we visit and remember our community members’ own personal landmarks and memories in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Our Stories, Our Chinatown Landmarks is a part of Chinatown Arts Festival 2023, produced by Think!Chinatown.
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16 stops•4.1km•49 min
21 Mott Street
21 Mott Street - Valerie Tom and Jan Lee grew up serving up burgers and spinning on diner stools with their family here at Lonnie’s Coffee Shop. Here, young and old Chinatown folks hang with their friends, while sipping on an egg cream.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Valerie and Jan by listening to their Landmarks story!
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21 Mott Street
21 Mott Street - Jan Lee has celebrated many family occasions over favorite Cantonese dishes in the basement restaurant Hop Kee 合記飯店 his whole life.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Jan by listening to his Landmarks story!
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43 MOTT STREET
43 Mott Street - Karen Lew Biney-Amissah grew up coming here to visit her grandfather at Lee Bow Co. 司公寳李 – while Chinatown neighbors came here to stock up for a crackling Chinese New Year.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Karen by listening to her Landmarks story!
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10 Pell Street
10 Pell Street - Amy Chin traces her family history through her grandfather at the Chin Family Association 陳潁川堂 – and brings even more family together at the association to this day.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Amy by listening to her Landmarks story!
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67 Bayard Street
67 Bayard Street - Ping Chong grew up behind the counter with his family at Lin Heong Coffee Shop 室啡咖香蓮 – known for their famous baked char siu bao.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Ping by listening to his Landmarks story!
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51 BAYARD STREET
51 Bayard Street - Margaret Yuen rang in a very special new year with her father at Tai Pun Association 大鵬同鄉會 many years ago – and continues to return over 30 years later to keep her father’s spirit alive.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Margaret by listening to her Landmarks story!
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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association Building
62 Mott Street - Margaret Yuen spent many afternoons after school at the New York Chinese School 紐約華僑學校, where she felt at home speaking her first language, Cantonese.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Margaret by listening to her Landmarks story!
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26 BOWERY
26 Bowery - Eleanor Yung and Bob Lee grew the Asian American Dance Theatre 亞美舞蹈社 into a bursting community center for Asian American dancers, artists, neighbors, and their family right here in Chinatown.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Eleanor & Bob by listening to their Landmarks story!
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75 EAST BROADWAY
75-85 East Broadway - Mee Mee Chin and Marcella Chin saw many Chinese movies and Cantonese opera performances in the iconic Sun Sing Theatre 新声戏院 under the Manhattan Bridge.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Mee Mee & Marcella by listening to their Landmarks story!
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75 EAST BROADWAY
75-85 East Broadway - Mee Mee Chin and Marcella Chin saw many Chinese movies and Cantonese opera performances in the iconic Sun Sing Theatre 新声戏院 under the Manhattan Bridge.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Mee Mee & Marcella by listening to their Landmarks story!
Artwork by Xinmei Liu
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390 BROADWAY
390 Broadway - Samantha Chan spent the early parts of her life at the New York Chinese Cultural Center 新苗文艺中心, practicing and performing Chinese folk dance alongside teachers and dancers who became as close as family.
Relive Samantha’s fond memories of growing up as a dancer by listening to her Landmarks story!
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47 MOTT STREET
47 Mott Street - Mee Mee Chin first found her passion for performing Cantonese operas later in life at Man Chee Dramatic and Benevolent Association 民智劇社.
Relive Mee Mee’s memories of playing a female heroine by listening to her Landmarks story!
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91 BOWERY
91-93 Bowery - Marcella Chin and Mee Mee Chin spent countless hours in the dark theater at Music Palace 璇宫戏院 watching the latest Chinese movies.
Relive New York's last Chinatown movie theater with Marcella and Mee Mee by listening to their Landmarks story!
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65 EAST BROADWAY
65 East Broadway - Alex Ho has many childhood memories at Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute 溫志明洪拳國術總會, practicing and performing with the friends who became like family.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Alex by listening to his Landmarks story!
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13 Doyers Street
13 Doyers Street - Lori Tann Chin has picked up pastries from Nom Wah Tea Parlor 南華茶室 ever since she first moved to New York — then she found a personal family connection back to Bruce Lee there too!
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Lori by listening to her Landmarks story!
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P.S. 124
40 Division Street - Baayork Lee has spent over ten years in the basement theatre of P.S. 124, where she continues to run an afterschool theatre club for elementary school students.
Relive fond memories of this neighborhood hub with Baayork by listening to his Landmarks story!
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