It was an ethnic enclave with a large percentage of Chinese immigrants, centered along Mulberry Street from 1875 and remaining on some scale for nearly one hundred years.

In the 1920s, recurring federal opium raids[3] disrupted the community, causing many to move to more peaceful places.

Gang leader Sai Wing Mock was shot in an attempt on his life in front of his establishment on Mulberry.

[4] Despite an attempt to revive the neighborhood decades later, the Mulberry Arcade (the center of Chinatown) was removed in the 1950s.

Today there is barely any sign that a Chinatown existed in the neighborhood, and only a small Chinese population remains.