 Originally a dockside street and market, and also the location of the original Chinatown, Front Street was converted into a truck-route bypass and elevated parkade during the 1960s in an effort to provide increased parking for adjacent Columbia Street.In recent decades it has been the focus of the city's thriving antiques and second-hand trade, which is also concentrated on 12 Street.It has also been used as a location in feature films such as "Rumble in the Bronx" (substituting for the Bronx), "I, Robot" (as a futuristic Chicago), "Shooter" (doubling for Philadelphia, with the Fraser River being the Delaware River), and "New Moon".