Writes of Passage

Canal Street in Chinatown, fake bag sellers; omicron testing site; Chase bank is full of customers.

New York

Bowery is a mile long vertical street in lower Manhattan‘s Chinatown. South ends begins at Chatham Square in Chinatown and north ends at E 4th Street, which continues as Cooper Square.

58 Bowery at corner of Canal Street and Bowery, facing the bridge is a landmark building of New York City since 2011, now occupied by the Chinatown branch of HSBC 汇丰银行. It was built in 1924, used by Citizens Savings Bank.

Manhattan Bridge

Manhattan Bridge; Confucius Plaza Apartments (completed in 1975); Hotel 50 Bowery

The old Music Palace 旋宫戏院 at corner of Bowery and Hester Street is replace by a hotel.

Bake Culture Share the Moment 贝肯庄 @ 48 Bowery, N B Wing Wong 大永旺 @ 42 Bowery, Joe’s Shanghai @ 46 Bowery; a discarded chair; a doctor’s office 西医梅一清 by  the Bowery Savings Bank @ 130 Bowery now hosts Capitale, an event venue for parties and weddings; an office building @ 216 Bowery and Rothko Studio @ 222 Bowery, both are on the same block between Spring and Prince streets; New Museum @ 235 Bowery (blues blood bruise).

The junction of Bowery and E Houston Street

225 W 57th Street
New York, NY

Nordstrom department store, founded in 1901 in Seattle, WA, has moved recently, occupying the basement and the first five floors of Central Park Tower on 57th Street, between 7th Ave and Broadway, near the Columbus Circle Mall.

This skyscraper Central Park Tower was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, developed by Extell Development Company and Shanghai Municipal Investment Group and completed in 2021. It has 98 floors, with a roof at the high of 1,550 feet.

The cantilever on the east side of the building was over the old building (completed in 1892) as the home of Art Students League of New York @ 215 W 57th Street, to max out Central Park view. Their air rights sold for $31.8 million but with challenge and opposition. (NYT: At art students league, air rights and airing grievances.)

On March 10, 2022, it displays Ukraine’s flag colors