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Doyers Street

A single bent block in Chinatown, running from Pell Street to the Bowery.

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Ink-and-wash illustration of Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, the street's sharp mid-block bend curving out of sight between low crowded buildings. — Illustration

Doyers Street: The Crooked Half-Block That Shaped New York's Chinatown

About 200 feet long and bent almost at a right angle, Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown carries more layered history—contested, violent, and quietly resil…