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Mott Street (Manhattan)

Mott Street
Mott street fire escapes.jpg
Typical American fire escapes on Mott Street
Former name(s) Old Street; Winne Street
Postal code 10012, 10013
North end Bleecker Street
South end Chatham Square
External images
Port Arthur Restaurant Color version of Port Arthur Restaurant
Port Arthur Restaurant – Black and white version of Port Arthur Restaurant
Port Arthur Restaurant – Insider view of Port Arthur Restaurant
External images
Mott Street General Store – Front Pictures of Mott Street General Store
Mott Street General Store – Insider view of Mott Street General Store
External images
Mott Street storefronts (photos of stores and properties on Mott Street)
Mott Street from the old days
Mott Street of 1960s – This is the southern part of Mott Street from the 1960s

Coordinates: 40°43′11″N 73°59′47″W / 40.7196°N 73.9963°W / 40.7196; -73.9963

Mott Street (Chinese: 勿街; pinyin: Wùjiē; Jyutping: Mat6gaai1) is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is regarded as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Chatham Square in the south to Bleecker Street in the north. It is a one-way street with southbound-running vehicular traffic.

Ah Ken is reported to have arrived in the area in 1858; he is the first Chinese person credited as having permanently immigrated to Chinatown. As a Cantonese businessman, Ah Ken eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row. He was "probably one of those Chinese mentioned in gossip of the sixties [1860s] as peddling 'awful' cigars at three cents apiece from little stands along the City Hall park fence – offering a paper spill and a tiny oil lamp as a lighter", according to author Alvin Harlow in Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street (1931).


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