Chinatown’s Mott Street

Crowded with restaurants and festive shops, Mott Street (at Canal Street) is a great spot for catching the flavor of Chinatown. Mott Street is the oldest Chinese-inhabited street in the city, and has many of Chinatown’s oldest restaurants as well as a plethora of Chinese stores.

One store of note is Yunhong (50 Mott St., 212/ 566 8828), a tiny store dedicated to chopsticks. Be sure to explore the side streets off Mott Street, and take a walk into Columbus Park (at Mulberry and Bayard Sts.) to feel like you have left the streets of New York City [1] behind as clusters of men play Xiangqi (Chinese chess) and children play on the courts.