13 and 15 Pell Street
13 Pell Street | also 15 Pell 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.
- 1949
The Hip Sing Tong leaves its first headquarters at 13 Pell Street for 16 Pell
The Hip Sing Tong, set up to speak for the working class, including many Chinese laundry workers, first made its headquarters at 13 Pell Street. In 1949 it moved to 16 Pell. The tong was the main rival of the On Leong Tong, and their long conflict fed sensational newspaper coverage. By the 1930s Pell and Doyers Streets were the Hip Sing side of the neighborhood.
“Hip Sing established headquarters first at 13 Pell, and later, in 1949, at 16 Pell.”
Source: National Register nomination
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