212 numbers for Chinatown businesses

Manhattan's Chinatown, around Canal, Mott and Pell Streets and East Broadway, is one of the oldest and best-known Chinese communities in the country. Its restaurants, bakeries, groceries, jewelers and herbal shops sit beside the accountants, lawyers and travel agencies that serve the community.

Here the digits themselves matter. Eight sounds like prosperity in Chinese and four sounds like death, so many businesses choose a number for its digits as much as for how easy it is to remember.

Numbers that fit

Lucky 8s are the first choice, especially 88 or 888 at the end. Every listing shows the full number, so you can check it for 4s before you buy.

No 212 number belongs to a particular neighborhood. Any number on this site works anywhere in Manhattan, and on a mobile phone, anywhere at all.