Chinatown protests against congestion pricing, Dec. 17, 2024. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Chinatown Protests Congestion Pricing, Demands Gov. Hochul Cancel MTA “Cash Grab” Dozens of impassioned protestors gathered near the Manhattan Bridge on Dec. 17 to denounce Governor Kathy Hochul’s reinstatement... News 19 Dec 2024 | 01:18
Shi Yahan, in blue dress, moments before she was brutally beaten by two masked thugs outside 37 Monroe Street, Tuesday June 25, at approximately 2:08 p.m. ( NYPD) Teen Busted for Baseball Bat Beating of Chinatown Woman; Partner in Attack Still on Lam One of the two thugs sought for the brutal June 15 attack on 58-year-old Shi Yanan on Monroe Street, on the edge of Chinatown,... News 29 Jul 2024 | 03:45
Men’s match at Seward Park, July 20, 2024 ( Brian Berger) New York Mini “9-Man” Chinese Volleyball Tournament Brings Mega Action—& Many Women’s Matches Too— to LES A screaming comes across the sky. It’s a red, white and blue volleyball and over the weekend of July 20 and 21— the dates... News 22 Jul 2024 | 09:09
Shi Yahan, in blue dress, moments before she was brutally beaten by two masked thugs outside 37 Monroe Street, Tuesday June 25, at approximately 2:08 p.m. ( NYPD) Masked Thugs Attack Chinatown Woman in Broad Daylight Beating Two masked savages brutally attacked a 58-year-old Chinese woman, Shi Yahan, on Monroe St. in in broad daylight on June 26.... News 03 Jul 2024 | 12:51
Michael Lee, the newly-appointed museum president, was previously Managing Director of Corporate Development at the New York Institute of Finance for six years. He sits on the boards of several Asian-centered nonprofits and teaches martial arts and lion dances. ( Credit: Karen Zhou) New President Appointed to Lead the Museum of Chinese in America After several years rocked by protests, resignations, and a 2020 fire that destroyed a part of its collection, the Museum... News 25 Mar 2024 | 12:25
Assemblymember Grace Lee delivers a speech on Centre Street, outside of Chung Pak and the Manhattan Detention Complex demolition site, while surrounded by elected officials and community advocates. ( Photo by Chia-Tien Nicole Chen) Calls to Halt Construction of Chinatown Jail After Cracks Discovered in Senior Home For much of the week, from morning till evening, Chung Pak shakes with the intensity of an earthquake, according to a resident... News 19 Mar 2024 | 03:37
The exterior of Hwa Yuan Szechuan in 2021. ( Photo: Google Street View) Landmark Chinatown Restaurant, Hwa Yuan Szechuan, Is in Financial Peril Hwa Yuan Szechuan is drowning in debt, though you wouldn’t guess it by the restaurant’s social media posts, which boast of... News 10 Nov 2023 | 06:38
Intersection of street in Chinatown where two businessmen are seeking to open a French bistro. Photo: Mimi Lamarre CB3 OKs a New French Bistro in Heart of Chinatown, Stirs Local Controversy An application for a restaurant’s liquor license in Chinatown sparked controversy at a recent meeting of Community Board... News 25 Sep 2023 | 03:05
Former HQ of the Bowery Savings Bank in Chinatown, now a party venue, is to be sold for $26 million to private equity firm SC Holdings headed by Jason Stein. Photo: Google Historic Bowery Savings Bank Bldg To Be Sold for $26 million to Private Equity Firm The Bowery Savings Bank Building, now a glittery party venue, which the previous owners put into bankruptcy last year, is... News 25 Sep 2023 | 01:52
Jessica Chen is being sponsored by the Museum of the Chinese in American to mark AAPI Heritage Month which celebrates history while looking to fight prejudice and dispel stereotypes. Photo: Maggie Wong Heroes and Myths as MOCA and Jessica Chen Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) month, Jessica Chen and friends at the Museum of the Chinese Americans... News 22 May 2023 | 02:55
At the AAPI Care Fair in Chinatown’s Columbus Park. Photo courtesy of Michelle Tran, of Soar Over Hate Chinatown Care Fair Provides NYC’s Asian-American Community With Healing Volunteers gathered in Chinatown’s Columbus Park last Sunday to help the local Asian-American community heal from the recent... News 20 May 2022 | 11:31
Manhattan Borough President at a recent hearing. Photo: Emily Higginbotham Brewer holds SoHo/NoHo hearing After a four hour plus meeting where residents expressed their discontent with the proposed upzoning of SoHo/NoHo, the project... Home 30 Aug 2021 | 12:19
Muhammad Ali with Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton (center) and M.B. Lee (left), President of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association on “Muhammad Ali Day,” December 9, 1974. Photo: Emile Bocian, courtesy of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) A Photographer’s Focus on Chinatown COVID-19 has challenged many cultural institutions to completely change their events to fit with public safety guidelines.... City Arts 24 Mar 2021 | 11:31
Victoria Lee and friend at a drop-off. ( Photo courtesy of Welcome to Chinatown) On a Mission to Save Chinatown Manhattan today is so different than it was just two months ago. Bursting neon lights have been replaced by shuttered businesses,... News 22 Apr 2020 | 01:01
The author, with her parents and Grandma Saro, in Stuyvesant Town in the 1990s ( Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Arocho) Bittersweet Memories of the Lower East Side I went to Wo Hop, a Chinatown hole in the wall, for the first time in 1987. I was still in my mother’s womb, and she and... Voices 27 Dec 2019 | 02:27
