![]() The cost (for two) was 65 cents (with tip). Luncheon choices for HG and sister were conservative. ![]() The appearance of the neighborhood inhabitants (Years ago, many older Chinese men still sported pigtails). The strange and often inscrutable foods spilling onto the sidewalks. It was many years later that Chinatown metastasized, taking over much of Little Italy and the Lower East Side.) The street scenes of Chinatown delighted little HG (they still do). Chinatown was quite small in these days (bounded by the Bowery and Canal Street with Mott, Pell, Bayard, Elizabeth and Doyers as its principal streets. He brought Babe Ruth to New York, a move which led to decades of baseball supremacy.) HG and his sister descended from the El at Chatham Square. ![]() (A sidebar: Ruppert, which went out of business in 1965, was once America’s best selling beer and Jacob Ruppert, son of the founder, was the owner of the New York Yankees baseball club. A highlight was the huge shiny brass brewing vats of the Jacob Ruppert Beer Company in the East 90’s neighborhood. We would peer into tenement windows along the route (saw some remarkable family scenes). The leisurely train voyage had its delights. It all began when 10-year-old HG and his late beloved sister, Beulah Naomi, would board the Third Avenue El at the Fordham Road station in The Bronx. HG has been dining in that Chinatown for 76 years. But, for nostalgic HG there is only one true Chinatown: Manhattan’s Chinatown. There are also growing Chinatowns in Brooklyn. SJ is a Flushing expert and has led HG and BSK to some extraordinary eating adventures. (Along Northern Boulevard and in the surrounding community of Murray Hill, there are also many good Korean restaurants and supermarkets). The Flushing neighborhood of Queens is much larger than Manhattan’s Chinatown and far outclasses it in terms of quality and variety of cuisine. The explosive growth of the Chinese population of New York has led to the creation of a number of new “Chinatowns” scattered throughout the five boroughs.
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