Chatham Square

Site of the Kim Lau Memorial Arch, erected in 1962 in memory of fighter pilot Benjamin Ralph Kim Lau and the Chinese Americans who died in WWII.  A statue of Lin Ze Xu, a 19th-Century Ching Dynasty drug-czar is also on Chatham Square.

East of the Square, on Division St, is Confucius Plaza, where a statue of Confucius stands near the tallest building in Chinatown.

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What's Nearby

Chatham Square is a great place to start your Chinatown explorations, because so many key streets flow into it and are just steps away, including Worth Street, which takes you to Columbus Park; Mott Street, one of Chinatown's main streets; the historic and uniquely shaped Doyers Street; and East Broadway, home of a large Fujianese community and lined with street markets and dining bargains.

Landmark history thanks to Museum of Chinese in America.