Inside New York City’s Chinatown, Where the Shirts Have No Name

A vignette from my time in Chinatown’s once thriving garment industry

Lisa Lau
Published in
7 min readMay 24, 2021

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Photo: Pixabay.com

The button escaped from my hands and rolled onto the coffee table. Like Wile E. Coyote scuttling off a cliff, the button plunged onto the floor and spun underneath the couch. I crouched on my hands and knees to reach for it. As if peering…

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Lisa Lau
#StopAsianHate

Insomniac, knowledge thrill-seeker, leisure and cathartic writer