Chinatown, Worth Street Between Baxter Street and Park Row; Mulberry Street Between Mosco and Worth Streets

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These are Chatham Towers, first glimpsed last night, built in 1965 and causing quite a sensation at the time, being New York City's first residential buildings made of poured concrete. They were designed by Kelly and Gruzen which also designed Chatham Green, the "undulating wall of Chinatown."







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Here is a view of one of the towers looking down Mulberry street. This photograph is taken from a later walk, October 6, but I thought it belonged here.



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Chinatown, Mosco Street Between Mott and Mulberry Streets

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Take note of Fried Dumpling and where it's located. As times get tougher and cash gets scarcer, this is where we're all going to be meeting up. Five dumplings for $1.00. Said to be delicious. Hot and Sour soup $1.00. And then there's soy bean juice for 75¢. Bill, of course, couldn't pass up a plate of dumplings, but the sad thing is, I can't remember what he said about them. I do know he ate em right up.

This is the reason I decided to throw some money into this project and buy myself a little recorder.



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Next door to Fried Dumpling is this Thai grocery store. I looked around and saw a lot of good things and said to myself next time I want to cook authentic Asian, this is the place to come. If I had had a pocket recorder, I would now be able to tell you what some of those great things were.



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Farther down the block is the Greater Chinatown Community Association.

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Chinatown, Mosco Street Between Mott and Mulberry Streets

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And they say don't shoot into the sun. What's a little flare now and again?

This is Mosco Street, one block long, between Mott and Mulberry. The Street Book doesn't list it and my map (pretty old) calls it Park Street. Aha! According to Kevin Walsh at forgotten-ny.com, the name was changed from Park Street to Mosco in 1982 in honor of Lower East Side community activist Frank Mosco. You New York City history buffs need to go to Walsh's website because there's some interesting stuff about Five Points, of which Mosco Street is a vestige, and what used to be where and how far the street used to run before Columbus Park was built, very important things.

By the way, The Street Book was published in 1978, and sure enough, it does list Park Street.

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