mottstreet

Mott Street is actually in Manhattan, not Brooklyn. We'll fix this in the catalog record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Street
"Mott Street (Chinese: 勿街; Jyutping: Mat6 gaai1) is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is regarded as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Bleecker Street in the north to Chatham Square in the south.
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Mott Street north of Canal Street was historically part of Little Italy. Today it is predominantly Chinese."

This is likely a view of Mott Street, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Check out this photo on Picasa: to the left is a storefront with a street number of 56, and to the right is an entrance flanked by columns whose capitals are very similar to the one we see here. Here's the scene on Google Maps' street view.

Also, the New York Chinese School was at 64 Mott Street--just down the block--as of 1929.

12/24/1909 - see "East Side Turns Out to Bury 'Little Tim'", 12/25/1909 New York Times. Sullivan was a popular Tammany operative and gangster.

The hearse in the cited newspaper account has a rounded front, while this one has a sqare front. Might this instead be the funeral of "Big Tim" Sullivan, who died on Aug 31, 1913?

Yes, this is the funeral of BIG Tim, on September 15, 1913 -- not LITTLE Tim, who died in 1909. Big Tim's body was unidentified in the morgue for two weeks after its discovery on railroad tracks.

jimflanny and Wystan, Thanks for the info on this image and the others of the funeral of 'Big Tim' Sullivan. We will update this record as well as the other related images to reflect the details.