Chinatown, Worth Street Between Mulberry and Mott Streets

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Worth Street to Mott. That's ABC Florist across the street. Remember, it's just around the corner from three funeral homes.







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Uh, oh. Another glass building in the middle of Chinatown. Dr. Toothy's bad enough. It does look nice against the sky, but that's no excuse.





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The culprit identified. CITIBANK!! Bankers are so evil. I mean banks. NOT bankers, banks!


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Chinatown, Mulberry Street at Worth Street; Worth Street Between Mulberry and Mott Streets

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Now I've walked back down Mulberry Street and here at the end of the block is the True Light Lutheran Church. Their website is worth a look, as they have a history time line with links to old photographs. They began life in 1935 as True Light Mission with rented space on Canal Street. If you are unclear about what a mission is exactly, this link should clear it up. Basically, it's size. Before you have enough of a congregation to support your own church and pastor, you're a mission. So that's why we think of converting people when we think of missionaries. They're trying to get a church together.






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They must have succeeded because in 1949, they're building the church we see here. The New York Times had notice of this event with a drawing of the proposed church. It's grander than the actual built church and has a pagoda-like topping of the tower. Too bad.  This looks pretty clunky.

There are two services every Sunday, one in English and one in Chinese.



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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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Civic Center, Worth Street Between Centre and Baxter Streets

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On to Chinatown. Worth Street divides Chinatown from the Courts, but farther east, beyond where Worth Street ends at Park Row, Chinatown has expanded a bit south.

This is the side of the NY County Courthouse and straight in front of us is a wing of the Moynihan Courthouse and beyond that – the building with the strange juttings – is Chatham Towers, of which more later.



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Civic Center, Worth Street Between Centre and Baxter Streets

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On to Hamill Place. There are many cops standing around the streets down here and they are not resistant to having a conversation with a passing civilian. So I soon discovered that some years ago, they created a park in front of the courthouse and made Hamill Place into a pedestrian walkway. Right here. It used to be used for parking. This is nicer.

Oldstreets.com tells me Hamill Place was closed "about" 1990.


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