15 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.
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- 1910
Fire at 15-17 Doyers Street kills four tenants and injures five
A fire tore through the building at 15-17 Doyers Street in 1910. Four tenants died and five others were injured. The same address burned again in a far deadlier fire in 1939.
“In 1910, four tenants died and five were injured when fire swept through the building at 15–17 Doyers.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1920
Nom Wah Tea Parlor opens at 15 Doyers Street
Chinatown's oldest continuously running restaurant, by its own claim, first opened in 1920 at 15 Doyers, not at the neighboring address where it stands today. From the 1940s it was run mainly as a bakery by Ed and May Choy. It moved to 13 Doyers in 1968, and Wally Tang, who had started working there at sixteen, bought it in 1976.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1939
Seven die and sixteen are hurt in a blaze at 15-17 Doyers Street
A June 1939 fire at 15-17 Doyers Street left seven people dead and sixteen injured, and eight firemen were hurt fighting it. The Times headline said the blaze threatened the entire surrounding area.
Source: timesmachine.nytimes.com
- 1939
La Guardia says Chinatown will someday have to be rebuilt after the Doyers Street fire
The Times called the 1939 building at 15-17 Doyers Street an old rabbit warren, and the narrow street made the fire hard to fight. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia came to the scene and said Chinatown would eventually have to be demolished and rebuilt.
Source: Wikipedia
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