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How Bandit’s Roost Blossomed Into Chinatown’s Columbus Park

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Frank Mastropolo

Watching people enjoy mah-jongg in Chinatown’s Columbus Park, it’s hard to imagine the site was a dangerous, decrepit slum in the late 1800s. Photojournalist and…

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