Prohibition Comedy

Before

0.3 mi · 5 min walk - Chinatown - Bowery

The park sits on the ground that used to be Five Points, and the neighborhood now plays mahjong under the pavilion for most of the day. Erhu players and singers set up along the paths in the afternoon. Tai chi groups take the benches early in the morning.

After

0.2 mi · 5 min walk - Tribeca - Hudson Square

A two-floor pub at Lispenard and West Broadway with pressed tin ceilings, a shuffleboard table upstairs and a jukebox the regulars keep feeding. It opens in the morning and does not shut until four. PUNCH calls it a holdout from the days when neighborhood pubs were everywhere down here.