Wyndham Garden Hotel Chinatown
93 Bowery | also 91 Bowery | Chinatown | built 2009
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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.
- 1914
The Universal Photoplay movie theater opens in an 1890s building on the Bowery
An earlier building on this lot, put up in the late 1890s, was altered in 1914 to hold a movie theater called the Universal Photoplay. It was later renamed the World Theater. In the early 1970s it was renamed again, as the Music Palace, when it switched to Chinese-language films.
Source: mocanyc.org
- 1978
Young Chinatown artists paint the Wall of Respect for the Working People on the Music Palace
Artist Tomie Arai and neighborhood young people painted a mural on the Music Palace theater at Hester and Bowery in 1978. The theater's owner hoped it would help prevent gang violence and showed the artists bullet holes in the balcony wall. The mural honored the young painters' waiter fathers and garment-worker mothers and stayed up for decades.
Source: nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com
- 2000
The Music Palace, the last Chinese-language cinema in Chinatown, closes
The Music Palace at 91-93 Bowery was the last Chinatown movie theater to shut down, surviving until 2000. It was managed by Golden Films International, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong studio Shaw Brothers, and had shown Chinese films since the early 1970s.
Source: mocanyc.org
- 2009
The city stops work on an 18-story Bowery hotel after it destabilizes neighboring buildings
In August 2009 the Buildings Department issued a stop-work order for the hotel rising at 91 Bowery, then six stories of a planned 18. The site had violations for failing to underpin neighboring buildings, and its construction had already destabilized 89 Bowery, demolished the year before. Next door 128 Hester Street was then judged in danger of collapse and its 60 tenants were ordered out, prompting criticism from Asian Americans for Equality and Borough President Scott Stringer.
Source: Internet Archive
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