NYC's Murder Alley - Doyers St., Chinatown - What Remains

[@DJURBANBG]

NY was gangster city back then..

[@nohelym89]

Not to mention before Chinatown, this place was known as Five Points in the 1800’s. It was alleged to have sustained the highest murder rate of any slum in the world.

[@fon9365]

Yup, that's what the movie Gangs of NY with Leonardo DiCaprio is all about, 5 Points was roughly at the Columbus park corner Worth and Mulberry.

[@mystery5808]

Alot of the crime in Manhattan often took place in chinatown-les, hells kitchen and Harlem which were the three biggest slums in manhattan.crime stats were not reliable in the 50s. Population was alot smaller as well.

[@heijimikata7181]

@@mystery5808 According to Mike Moy and other former Chinatown gangsters, before Giuliani and the Feds “cleaned up” New York’s Chinatown in the late 1990s, you couldn’t go a week without hearing gunshots.

[@takingoutthetrash1512]

I love your documentaries man ! I love viewing old photos.. I always imagine myself at that very moment in time - how it would be like

[@marcos915]

..but 100 years ago, this street's main export.... was murder. lol

[@MsVorpalBlade]

How exactly do you export murder? 😃

[@JohnJung]

A nice visual presentation comparison but one factual error. Chinatown had hand laundries and not "laundromats" as stated. Laundromats, or wash and dry establishments, allowed customers to have self-service with individual washing machines and did not offer any ironing. These businesses did not exist until the 1940s or later.

[@dylanakent]

I've walked down this street 100 times never knowing!

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

On Doyer Street. in the 1970s there was an old Chinese restaurant (long gone) that featured on the menu "boiled THINGS in Broth" with no price on the menu. My friend said "what KIND of THINGS in broth" and the waiter got VERY MAD ..wonder why LOL

[@HrhFish]

Catering for Irish cuisine :-)

[@RetrocadePodcast]

Yun Luck was a restaurant there in the late 80s, but a better restaurant, Wo Hop is on Mott st the next block

[@Eastmeetssouth81]

Oh man, that's hilarious... because we all eat weird shit amirite??!!

[@jackiebonds4359]

@@HrhFish Rats, Cats , Dogs etc... lol J/K. I lived on the other side of Canal which is Little Italy. Great place to grow up No Doubt!

[@YouSoldMe]

looked better back then tbh

[@AJ-be5jv]

Walked down this street yesterday such a unique little road

[@nahm8703]

I live a block away from that allay it’s so peaceful now with amazing food and shops !! It’s crazy people were getting killed everyday there 👀

[@UptownNYC]

Lived in NYC for 30+ years, I've been to Chinatown maybe 100 times? Never been down this Murder alley street tho 😱

[@edgethawavestar2855]

Chinatown was like a rush hour movie back in those days

[@amigochevere5217]

Should be a theater there , tourism will be huge

[@gotglasses]

I often had lunch on that street- the sign used to say " Doyer Alley". Liked it better that way. The last violence I recall was when the 80+ year old Esther Eng was murdered around the corner in her restaurant on Mott St. Makes a good story for the tourists!

[@samfitzgerald4682]

I lived in NYC almost 14 years..great place

[@adamstratford6740]

I’m from the uk 🇬🇧 and visited NYC back in April 2018 BEST place ever!!

[@checkmate2049]

How’s much is your rent?

[@pbnaj]

Now it's just a hipster underground bar street.

[@onlytoloveyou1]

that 1911 looks like a beretta 92 fs, what the heo back to the past?

[@yankees29]

Doyers is also very a very narrow street. Narrow and curved which made it a great place to ambush someone.

[@travellmcintosh]

Why do you think that's called "Murder Alley"?

[@alvintuy7875]

The Tongs an American Nightmare bought me here

[@jeredhead6806]

lmao I don't think they had Beretta 92s back then

[@risteardwest3384]

Everything city in the United States has a fabulous Chinatown you don't even know which one to go to I've been to a lot of them just like going to a different planet the food is excellent you could get so many good bargains there plus the fish market and food market is just excellent nothing like eating Chinese food I give them a five-star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🇨🇳💯❤️👍

[@user-st2it1kt8r]

I'm not surprised about having the first brothel, when they came over from China they were not allowed to bring wives/girlfriends for a long time

[@hollypittman8520]

As a young girl, I used to go here with my cousin (he is much older and is half Taiwanese) and I was always mesmerized but most of all safe. :)

[@colinsushiboy745]

They didn't murder regular citizens. It's usually just Chinese gang members. Same with the Italian mafia.

[@michaelwalters7333]

🤘 Awesome 👏

[@dan020350]

-.- How does the movie Shanghai Grand fall into this ? :))

[@colinsushiboy745]

They don't kill non Chinese and non gang members. Wouldn't have a problem going back in time and walking on those alleys or streets.

[@edgethawavestar2855]

Wrong asian gangs in les-chinatown were waring with white, puerto rican and black crews all the time.

[@MsDboyy]

I love NewYorkCity

[@Mnjake96]

I'm watching this before bed and now I'm scared of asians

[@alvintuy7875]

Come to Fresno or Long Beach and you’ll see more of us

[@tommylam460]

清沖

[@ravimahalay610]

Lots of changes comes with time Lots of places in usa that long ago were violent places Dont forget wild west

[@redmoneymedia5630]

Asian Mob 🗽🔴💵

[@MbisonBalrog]

How Chinese gangs survive exclusion act?

[@psystemupdate1745]

Go Dodgers Doyers

[@amyjiang51]

Tong is not gang, thank you.

[@amyjiang51]

there was a time when tong and gang collaborated with each other -.-

[@grul3416]

My gangster FAMILY GRUL

[@Acord718]

East harlem next

[@maqboolsholiay8980]

Still islame

[@Acord718]

East harlem next