It's been some time since H1 and I have been to Chinatown in Manhattan (well, H1 went in January without me). Though it has been pretty cold and the streets were fairly empty, there was something just off with Canal Street on Monday evening when we went.
It was... clean. There were new buildings, and worst of all, it was not shady at all. It was rather jarring, and completely odd. A clean Chinatown just sort of seems wrong. It shocked me in Yokohama, and it certainly scared me when H1 and I stepped off the N train line.
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| Maybe it was the light of the evening? |
