Photo: Sunrise over Grand Street, November 6, 2023.
News and notes from the past week:
–A “makeshift welcome center run weekly out of the cafeteria at (the Lower East Side’s) P.S. 20 Anna Silver Elementary has become one of the first stops for new migrants as they get their bearings in a new country.” [The New York Times]
–NYCHA is instituting new rules in the name of e-bike safety. Over the summer, four residents were killed following an e-bike explosion at a privately owned tenament building in Chinatown. [The City]
–Big financial troubles have hit the sprawling Chinatown restaurant, Hwa Yuan. The owners owe more than $12 million to the East Broadway building’s lender and they have filed for bankruptcy. [Eater]
–A resident who accused L+M Development Partners of charging him more than the allowable rent for his apartment at Essex Crossing has withdrawn his legal complaint. [The Real Deal]
–In Tuesday’s general election, Chris Marte won re-election in City Council District 1. [The Broadsheet]
–At Community Board 3 this coming week, there will be a meeting to discuss the impacts of congestion pricing and “possible mitigation to offset the expected increases in traffic on the FDR Drive between the Brooklyn Bridge and 10th Street.” [CB3]
–A new documentary film tells the story of the Lower East Side-based artist and Nuremberg trials guard Nathan Hilu, who died in 2019. It is “a movie that takes us inside the obsessive mind and cluttered apartment of a unique New York artist who is desperate for his story as a witness to one of the most significant trials in history to be heard.” [The Forward]
–Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire with urban geographer Elissa Sampson. [Belt Magazine]
–Rejoice! Chinatown roast meat joint Wah Fung No. 1, closed for months, is back open. [Eater]
