Crime Watch loves Chinatown and feels like it knows Chinatown as well as anyone who speaks neither Mandarin nor Cantonese can—which some might argue isn’t much, no matter how many dozens of Chinatown stories one writes or how many times one reads Henry Chang novels checked out of the Chatham Square library.
A murder recently occurred at 7 Eldridge St. near the center of Chinatown. It was murder, perpetrated by a Chinese man against another man who, although he hasn’t yet been identified, is almost certainly himself Chinese.
The first NYPD report was as follows:…