Memories of #Chinatown

In the late 80s and early 1990s, inner-city youth from Flatbush Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Bronx would take the New York City subway to Chinatown. People spent large sums of money in Chinatown for purposes ranging from purchasing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean food from real Oriental kitchens 1 Canal St. or nearby canal street and riding the subway train home. Other inner-city youth took the train to Chinatown, because they knew they could purchase illegal fireworks from Oriental people selling them out of garbage bags on canal street or nearby canal street for pennies on the dollar, stuffed illegally purchased fireworks in their Jansport bookbags, and head back over the bridge on the NYC subway back to Brooklyn. Chinatown paved the way for many businesses coming into existence. Some native New Yorkers and people traveling through Chinatown have not a clue of Chinatown's historical past. The dark side, that is. Did you know Chinatown had a small part known as murder alley? According to
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