Woey Sin Low was the name of restaurants in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Providence (Rhode Island) and Carson City (Nevada).
6.875 x 4.875 inches unfolded; designer and calligrapher unknown
The New York Woey Sin Low was located in Chinatown at 20 Mott Street on an upper floor. The restaurant was not mentioned in New York’s Chinatown: An Historical Presentation of Its People and Places (1898).
There are seven restaurants in Chinatown which rank as first-class places, and four others of the second or lower class, some of which would more properly be called mere eating houses. Those of the first-class are the following: Hon Heong Lau, 11 Mott Street; King Heong Lau, 16 Mott Street; Me Heong Lau, 14 Mott Street; Way Heong Lau, 20 Mott Street; Gui Ye Quan, 34 Pell Street; Mon Li Won, 24 Pell Street, and Kum Sun, 16 Pell Street.
Way Hong Low, at 20 Mott Street, was listed in the 1899 and 1900 Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York City.
The New York Times identified two of the tenants at 20 Mott Street: John Looern, merchant (September 4, 1898), and Dr. Hong Bad, Chinese physician (November 30, 1898).
The earliest mention of Woey Sin Low was found in Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, Volume 114, July 1, 1901.
The Evening Telegram (Syracuse, New York), May 21, 1901, wrote about a former employee who opened a Chinese restaurant in Syracuse, New York.
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The New York Times reported two deaths at 20 Mott Street: Chin Chong, 49, March 31 (April 2, 1902) and Lee Yee, 23, September 23 (September 25, 1902).
Woey Sin Low was listed in Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, Volume 116, July 1, 1903.
At the same address was Quong Wing Shing & Co.
Woey Sin Low was not listed in the 1904 Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx and evidently out of business.
20 Mott Street, fourth building from the right;
date unknown
Further Viewing
Viewing NYC, 20 Mott Street, three-story building in middle of the block; colored version here
Puck, November 28, 1914, 20 Mott Street at far left
NYC Department of Records & Information Services, 20 Mott Street, 1937
Museum of Chinese in America, 20 Mott Street, 1939
Manhattan’s Chinatown (2008), 20 Mott Street
A Journey Through Chinatown, 20 Mott Street
Woey Sin Low, San Francisco: Through a Chinese American Lens and YouTube
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