1 Doyers Street
Chinatown | built 1915
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1895
Printer W. Kai Kee of 1 Doyers Street issues a directory of Chinese families
The New York Times reported in April 1895 that W. Kai Kee, of 1 Doyers Street, the address of an earlier building on the lot of today's No. 1, had issued a Chinese Directory. Printed in red and green ink on one sheet measuring 18 by 24 inches, it listed some 500 prominent Chinese families in New York and San Francisco. Laundrymen were left off, and the New York names covered only men in business on Doyers, Mott and Pell Streets.
Source: chimericaneyes.blogspot.com
- 1896
Chinese artist Kai Kee sets up a studio at 1 Doyers Street after the Chicago fair
In March 1896 the Los Angeles Herald reported that the artist Kai Kee had opened a small studio at No. 1 Doyers Street, in an earlier building on the lot of today's No. 1, and meant to settle there. He had been sent from China to oversee construction of the Chinese government buildings at the Chicago world's fair. For the Sunday Journal he sketched scenes of New York life, working with a sharpened stick instead of pens or pencils.
Source: chimericaneyes.blogspot.com
- 1900
Kai Kee of 1 Doyers Street shows Chinese printing at New York's printing exposition
At the printing exposition of May 1900, Kai Kee, a Chinese printer from 1 Doyers Street, an earlier building on the lot of today's No. 1, exhibited a lithograph of Confucius taken from a stone said to be twenty-four centuries old. His booth also held early Chinese types and plates in stone, wood and bronze. When Imperial Chinese Consul Chow Tszchi visited days later, he had lent Kai Kee many Chinese books and manuscripts for the display.
Source: chimericaneyes.blogspot.com
- 1903
Mrs. Wung Tai Kee of 1 Doyers Street tells the Tribune American women should drop corsets
The New York Tribune's illustrated supplement of May 24, 1903 quoted Mrs. Wung Tai Kee, of No. 1 Doyers Street, described as an able partner in her husband's sign-painting business. The address was an earlier building on the lot of today's No. 1. She said Chinese women disliked American dress, above all the corset, and that foot-binding was being abandoned in China. If American women thought themselves so progressive, she asked, why did they not throw their corsets away?
Source: chimericaneyes.blogspot.com
- 1906
Kai Kee prints a six-foot list of firms burned out in San Francisco's Chinatown
On April 20, 1906, Kai Kee of 1 Doyers Street, an earlier building on the lot of today's No. 1, issued a printed roster of the large Chinese firms that had been burned out of San Francisco's Chinatown, the New York Times reported the next day. It measured six feet long, with the names set in red Chinese characters on the left and green English letters on the right, each followed by a street number. Some entries also gave the firm's line of business.
Source: chimericaneyes.blogspot.com
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