Broadway's Rogers and Hart immortalized this street in their 1925 hit "Manhattan," waxing poetic about the "sweet pushcarts gently gliding by." That's what Mott Street was like in the late 1880s when Chinese immigrants (mostly men) settled in tenements in a small area that included the lower portion of Mott Street as well as nearby Pell and Doyers streets. It soon became Chinatown's main thoroughfare. Today the busy street overflows with fish and vegetable markets, restaurants, bakeries, and souvenir shops.