Dispatches from NYC's bustling Chinatown on Christmas Day ^0%

Gothamist - By Hannah Frishberg - 12/25/2025, 10:07 PM

According to the Jewish calendar, the year is 5786. According to the Chinese calendar, the year is 4723. And so, the saying goes, the Jews had to wait over 1,000 years to have Chinese food – and more than 3,000 to have it on Christmas. We have wasted no time since, at least not in New York. Though the streets were barren most elsewhere... more