3 Doyers Street

Chinatown | built 1920

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.

1920
A five-story tenement from the 1870s at 3 Doyers Street is refaced in the 1920s
The National Register nomination for the Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District describes 3 Doyers as a five-story, five-bay brick tenement in a mix of Italianate and Neo-Grec styles, dating to the 1870s. In the 1920s it was refaced in brick-textured stucco. Its metal-and-wood cornice has a round-arched pediment.
Source: National Register nomination
1936
The May Sum Restaurant operates at 3 Doyers Street under a heart-shaped sign
A walking-tour post built on Museum of the City of New York photographs records 3 Doyers Street as the May Sum Restaurant in 1936, noted for its heart-shaped sign. The restaurant later became the China Clipper Restaurant and then the Eurasia Restaurant.
Source: fortamsterdamnyc.blogspot.com

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