Here's a message from the Chinatown Working Group.
The Chinatown Working Group will be hosting a Town Hall on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, from 6PM to 8:30PM, at Middle School 131, 100 Hester Street, Chinatown. The Town Hall is...
The Chinatown Working Group, a community coalition, is looking for a planning consultant. The person hired will help in the "preparation of a planning proposal that is focused on the work of its Cultural, Affordability, Preservation & Zoning and...
It should be an interesting evening at Community Board 3's land use committee meeting tonight. Representatives of the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) will detail their proposals for moving forward on a potential rezoning of the neighborhood. Among their ideas:...
Members of the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) will try, once again, tonight to elect new leaders and vote on other key issues. Last month, the community planning organization met but accomplished very little, since they couldn't muster a quorum. ...
Last fall, the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) began a top-to-bottom re-assessment of its governing structure, an exercise designed to make the community-based organization more democratic. This week, that process came to an end, as the organization approved governance tweaks.
The...
Note: an original version of this story erroneously stated that the Coalition plan would mandate 100% affordable housing in Chinatown and the LES. The proposal does call for 100% affordable housing in specific areas, such as the Seward Park...
Earlier this week, members of the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) met to discuss proposed changes in the community organization's governing structure. While these deliberations drag on, the CWG's comprehensive blueprint for the neighborhood remains in limbo.
When the full board...
The rain will stick around most of the day and evening. Muggy -- with a high of 72. A full slate of community meetings tonight: CB3 will review recommendations changing the way it evaluates liquor licenses, the Chinatown...
In a sometimes tense two-and-a-half hour meeting last night, the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) chose new interim leaders, created a new committee to look at overhauling the organization and scheduled a vote on several "action plans" covering important neighborhood...
During the summer, it looked like the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) was on the verge of finalizing a comprehensive neighborhood development proposal for submission to the city. That was before a blow-up over the hiring of a planning consultant...
