8 Bowery
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.
- 1958
A wood-frame building at 8 Bowery houses the Bun Sum Chinese restaurant
Before the present building went up in 1985, the original number 8 on the Bowery was a wood-frame structure. In 1958 it housed the Bun Sum Chinese restaurant, according to the Bowery Historic District nomination, which cites the New York Times. Next door, number 6 had been the site of the long-lived Olliffe Pharmacy.
“Original no. 8 was also wood frame, housing BunSum Chinese restaurant, 1958. NYT, HABS.”
Source: National Register nomination
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