New York’s “Chinese Revolutionary HQ”, 1912

Talking of 1912 last week I thought I might show this picture too…the New York headquarters of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Most newspaper accounts simply give the address as “Chinatown, NYC” but Scott Seligman, who has a great book coming out soon on New York’s Tong Wars, tells me the address was 12 Mott Street and often referred to as “Chinese Revolutionary HQ”. Scott also tells me that Dr. Sun did stay in the building at some point in 1911.

The building is still there – as you can see it is now the Jun Hair Salon, the slightly lower of the three buildings in the middle….