Wall Street of Chinatown, Manhattan
East Broadway has been very well known to be in the middle of what is known as the Wall Street of Manhattan's Chinatown due to the significant number of Chinese-owned financial institutions concentrated on this street and surrounding streets. The banks that are located on this Wall Street of Chinatown are Asia Bank, United Orient Bank, and CitiBank(corner of Mott Street) on Chatham Square. First American International Bank(formerly Hong Kong Bank) and Abacus Federal Savings Bank on the Bowery. Onto East Broadway are Bank of China, Cathay Bank(formerly the Golden City Bank), East West Bank(formerly the Hang Seng Bank), a second Chinatown branch of First American International Bank and formerly named as Glory China Tower in the former spot of the Pagoda theater, the HSBC bank. A Cantonese newspaper company named Wah May Press was also located on 9 East Broadway.
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