2 Bowery

also 2 Doyers Street | Chinatown | built 1915

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1896
The Italianate loft at 2 Bowery gets a new storefront in 1896 and is altered again in 1904
The Bowery Historic District nomination describes 2 Bowery, at the corner of Doyers Street, as a five-story, four-bay brick loft building dating from about 1870. It has a corbelled cornice in an arcade pattern, and its round-arched window openings were later made smaller and square. The building received a new storefront in 1896 and was altered again in 1904.
Source: National Register nomination
1904
October 6
The Chinese Tuxedo restaurant opens at 2 Doyers Street to draw non-Chinese diners
The Chinese Tuxedo opened on October 6, 1904 at 2 Doyers Street, one of several upscale Chinese restaurants then trying to profit from a rise in non-Chinese tourism to Chinatown. It offered elaborate chandeliers and patterned tables for visitors seeking an exotic evening. An ornate balcony crowned with an eagle served as advertising visible from the Third Avenue elevated train. The restaurant closed sometime in the mid-1900s.
Source: mocanyc.org

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