Doyers Street

Doyers Street contains several restaurants, barber shops, and hair stylists, as well as the Chinatown branch of the United States Postal Service.

The street is named for Hendrik Doyers, an 18th-century Dutch immigrant who bought the property facing the Bowery in 1791.

[5] Nom Wah Tea Parlor, opened in 1920, is the oldest continuously running restaurant in Chinatown.

[10][11] Early in the century, the bend in the street became known as the "Bloody Angle" or "Murder Alley"[12][13] because of numerous killings among the Tong Gangs of Chinatown that lasted into the 1930s.

[14] In 1994, law enforcement officials said that more people died violently at the "Bloody Angle" than at any other street intersection in the United States.

[18] In 1939, a fire at the same building, described by The New York Times as "an old rabbit warren," killed seven persons and injured sixteen.

[19] Chuck Connors, a Tammany Hall operative and the political boss of Chinatown in the early part of the century, had his headquarters at the Chatham Club at 6 Doyers,[20] where Irving Berlin reportedly entertained.

[29] During the same month, yellow and green lanterns were hung up along Doyers Street as part of the Light Up Chinatown initiative.