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Doyers Street Chinatown, New York 2005
This unusual street features a 90-degree turn. The merchants built it crooked, according to legend, so that the straight-flying ghosts couldn't move through it. You may recognize the street from films and TV programs.
Today you'll find the local post office, one of Chinatown's first dim sum restaurants, tea houses, & MANY barber shops (with hidden mahjong gambling).
Doyers Street was once called ?the Bloody Angle? around 1900 because of murders that occurred on the street. The term has long fadded into history, but the angle of Doyers Street is still there. This is 8AM Sunday morning.
Part of my current project -- "Little Empires: Impressions of Chinatown"
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