Welcome to Chinatown spoke with Henry, assistant store manager at Eastern Bookstore NYC. Open since 1976, Eastern Bookstore has been serving Chinatown and Chinese Americans as a hub for Chinese language books, calligraphy and printing materials and educational materials for students of all ages. 

Eastern Bookstore NYC is the last remaining Chinese language bookstore in Chinatown; it’s a central source for education and leisurely reading. We are proud to have partnered with Eastern Bookstore NYC for our recent Read it Forward initiative, yet ongoing support still remains critical as foot traffic is at an all time low in the midst of the pandemic.

Hop Shing was one of Chinatown’s most iconic restaurants, doling out cheap Guangdong-style dim sum to lines of hungry workers every day for nearly fifty years. Sadly, Hop Shing is one of the many victims of COVID-19 and served its last plate of dim sum on March 20th, 2020. More than just an eatery, Hop Shing was a neighborhood mainstay and meeting place for the young and the old. Read on to learn more about this iconic Chinatown establishment.