Mott Street 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 Bleecker Street in the north to Chatham Square in the south. It is a one-way street with southbound-running vehicular traffic only.
Fire escapes on Mott Street
In 1824, 65 Mott Street became New York City's first building specifically built to be a tenement (2013 photo)
Looking north at Mott and Pell Streets at night
Mott Street at Chatham Square; a Citibank is in the foreground
Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.
Crossing Canal Street in Chinatown, facing Mott Street toward the south
The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980.
Little Fuzhou (on East Broadway) is seen from the Manhattan Bridge.
Doyers Street in an 1898 postcard
