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Pearl River Mart is an Asian-American retail brand and family-run business in New York City. [1] [2] The business was founded in 1971 in Chinatown, Manhattan, as Chinese Native Products by Ming Yi Chen and a group of student activists from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating an estimated 779,269 individuals as of 2013; [18] the remaining Chinatowns are located in the boroughs of Queens (up to ...
Eldridge Street is a street in the Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, running from Houston Street in the north to East Broadway in the south. Originally called Third Street according to the numbering system for the Delancey Farm Grid, it was named in 1817 for Lt. Joseph C. Eldridge, whose unit was ...
Doyers Street is a 200-foot-long (61 m) street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is one block long with a sharp bend in the middle. The street runs south and then southeast from Pell Street to the intersection of Bowery, Chatham Square, and Division Street.
The southern end of Baxter Street, at Worth Street, in the former Five Points (2014). Prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, the area was still undeveloped. Orange Street is first shown in a 1754 map as a two-block street running from the "High Road To Boston" (which later became Chatham St. and finally, Park Row), and ended at a small clearing where the later "bend" in the street ...
The street is considered one of the southern boundaries of Chinatown. [2] The Hamilton-Madison House at 50 Madison Street is a major provider of child care for the Chinatown, Two Bridges, and Lower East Side neighborhoods. [3] [4] Madison Street is surrounded by housing projects, tenements and schools.
Pages in category "Defunct department stores based in New York City" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pergament Home Centers was a home improvement store chain with stores in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. [1] It specialized in the sale of flooring, paint, and wallpaper and was one of the first in the area to sell acrylic paint. [2] [3] At its zenith, the chain had 42 stores and sales of $375 million. [2]