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Chinatown Audio Walk

I talk. You walk.

Eric’s Chinatown stories. Your pace. Follow the neighborhood’s history, pause whenever you’re hungry, and choose the bites that speak to you.

Food is purchased separately. There’s no scheduled group or live guide. Audio access and price will be announced at launch.

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Famous stories. A personal connection.

You’ve seen the movie.
Now walk the streets.

Before the roast pork buns and dim sum, these blocks were part of the world that inspired Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Come for the names you recognize. Follow Eric Kwan into the Chinatown he grew up in.

Five Points · On screen and underfoot

Beyond Bill the Butcher.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Daniel Day-Lewis. A vanished neighborhood brought to life on screen. Explore the real Five Points, the Dead Rabbits, and the Bowery Boys—and discover where movie legend and history part ways.

Mulberry Bend · Through the lens

Before Columbus Park.

Jacob Riis showed readers How the Other Half Lives. Hear about the crowded tenements behind his photographs, then stand in the park Eric knew as his childhood playground.

Mott Street · Food with a following

From Bourdain to your next bite.

Hop Kee appeared on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. Wo Hop earned a James Beard America’s Classics award in 2022. For Eric, it holds an even more personal place in Chinatown’s story: he met the love of his life there in 2005. Discover the neighborhood food traditions behind the fame, with a chef who grew up eating here.

Chinatown · Eric’s story

The streets were my classroom.

Cheung fun before class at Yung Wing Public School. With his parents’ support and a determination to get the best culinary education he could, Eric completed rigorous training at the French Culinary Institute and The Culinary Institute of America. Along the way, hear about his childhood afternoons in Columbus Park and his grandfather’s service in World War II. Some stories made it to Hollywood. This one comes from the family.

Follow the history. Bring your appetite. Let Eric show you the Chinatown behind the stories.

Stories vary by tour. Restaurant references highlight neighborhood history; tasting stops are confirmed for your chosen experience.

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Planned chapters

A story at every stop.

Separate tracks will let you pause for food, replay a story, and continue when you’re ready. Recordings are not available yet.

  1. 01

    Welcome to Chinatown

    Meet Eric and get ready for the walk.

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  2. 02

    Before the Park

    From Jacob Riis’s Mulberry Bend to Eric’s childhood playground in Columbus Park.

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  3. 03

    The Five Points

    The real neighborhood behind Gangs of New York: history, movie legend, and a vanished crossroads.

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  4. 04

    A Street Remade

    Mosco and Mulberry: a neighborhood in transition.

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  5. 05

    At the Cantonese Table

    Mott Street, food memories, and community institutions.

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  6. 06

    Beyond Bloody Angle

    Pell and Doyers: restaurants, associations, and neighborhood life.

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  7. 07

    The Larger City

    Chatham Square and the route toward the Manhattan Bridge.

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