Yesterday's protest at Chatham Square
As New York's mayoral election draws near, there's been a fair amount of speculation about how Michael Bloomberg will do downtown, especially in Chinatown. Yesterday, I attended two events that offered two very different perspectives on the mayor's popularity in the neighborhood.
Chatham Square was the setting for a protest organized by several groups, including the
Civic
Center Residents Coalition, the Chinese Small Business Alliance, the Lin Ze Xu
Foundation and the Chinese Staff & Workers' Association. They held up a huge "report card," Bloomberg's "failing grades" in every category (safety, education, etc) but one. The groups gave Bloomberg an "A" for lying. Speakers listed a litany of complaints, including the continued closing of Park Row, inattention to dangerous conditions near the Manhattan Bridge, placard abuse, the failure to include Chinatown in the LES rezoning plan, etc.
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