16 Doyers Street
also 16C Doyers Street, 16A Doyers Street | Chinatown | built 1920
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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.
- 1892
A fan tan parlor on the site of 16 Doyers Street is closed and reopened, as the city tries to stop gambling
In the early 1890s fan tan, a Chinese gambling game, was played at 16 Doyers Street, one of about a dozen Chinatown addresses where parlors operated. City authorities tried to close such places as illegal gambling dens. Judges repeatedly ruled the pastime a harmless game, and a New York Times report of February 24, 1892 told of parlors closed and then reopened. The building on the lot today is a later one.
“…fan tan was played at 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 36 Mott; 8, 16 Doyers; judges repeatedly declared that the past-time was a harmless game…”
Source: National Register nomination
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