Chun Kong Chow operated the New York Branch of Sun Goon Shing for 40 years. In 1968, when he was 77 years old, he retired, and sold the store. He remained active in Chinatown civic affairs until his death in 1984.
His second son has continued his father's practice of active engagement with the Chinese American community into the 21st century.
"Chinatown" is Mott, Pell, Doyers and Bayard Streets.
Today, nearly all of the early Chinese stores are gone, new stores have located in their places and in the surrounding areas and in new Chinese communities in Queens, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. One store, Quong Yuen Shing, remains with the same store front as it was then, about a century ago.
A bit of old Chinatown is preserved in the State Museum in Albany, New York. Tuck High Co. ,an import-export store on Mott Street is now part of the permanent exhibit. "Artifacts" from Sun Goon Shing and another old store Quong Yee Wo fill the store.". . . The only thing left [of old Chinatown] is Quong Yuen Shing. The Chinese stores have moved [further east in lower Manhattan] out . . . there on the other side of Canal Street, Grand Street. And then there's Sunset Park [in Brooklyn]. You've been out to Flushing [in Queens]. Flushing has so many Orientals that the natives feel like they're in a foreign country."
