Manhattan
Sublets in Chinatown
Dense & delicious
Chinatown is one of the oldest and busiest neighborhoods in the city, and one of the few where street life has not been smoothed out. Produce stalls, hand-pulled noodles, tenement walk-ups and more subway lines than almost anywhere downtown.
Also known as
Chinatown takes in Two Bridges. Listings in any of them show up here.
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What's in Chinatown
Names a local would drop, and what each one actually is. Tap any to see it on a map.
park
Columbus Park
Where the neighborhood actually gathers. Morning tai chi, afternoon xiangqi, and a brass band most weekends.
culture
Doyers Street
A one-block dogleg with a violent history and a barbershop that has been there since 1910.
shopping
Canal Street
Produce, fish, herbs and a thousand other things, sold loudly. The busiest stretch of pavement downtown.
food
Nom Wah Tea Parlor
Chinatown's oldest dim sum house, open since 1920 and still filling the same booths on Doyers.
culture
Museum of Chinese in America
A Maya Lin-designed space telling 160 years of Chinese American history, two blocks from where most of it happened.
What Chinatown is like
Dining
Among the best in the city for the money. Cantonese, Fujianese, Malaysian and Vietnamese, often in rooms with no decor at all.
Nightlife
Quiet early, then a scattering of bars that stay open very late. Dimes Square on the eastern edge is the loud part.
Green space
Columbus Park and Sara D. Roosevelt Park. The East River waterfront is a short walk.
Getting around
- NQRWJZ6Canal St
- BDGrand St
- FEast Broadway
10subway lines
Why people sublet here
- Some of the best and cheapest food in Manhattan
- Columbus Park, where the neighborhood actually hangs out
- Walking distance to SoHo, the Lower East Side and Tribeca
- A huge number of subway lines for how far downtown it is