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Neighbors Gear Up to Fight Chinatown Bus Permits Thursday Night

The Chinatown bus wars are back. On Thursday evening, Community Board 3's transportation committee will be asked to support three new proposed bus stops on Canal Street.  A block association in the area, SPaCE, is mobilizing to fight the...

Cops Evict Homeless Man From Space in Manhattan Bridge

This morning police removed a man who had been living in a compartment over the bike lane on the Manhattan Bridge. A large number of officers, including some from the 5th Precinct, stopped bike traffic on the Manhattan side...

Photos: Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Parade

It was a gorgeous day (how things change in 24 hours) in Chinatown yesterday for the 15th annual Lunar New Year Parade, a production of the Better Chinatown Society. Tim Schreier got some great shots from the festivities, as...
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It’s the Year of the Horse! Scenes From the Chinese Firecracker Festival

In Chinatown, Chinese New Year celebrations are in full swing. Check out Tim Schreir's photos from today's firecracker festival in Sara D. Roosevelt Park.  Don't forget Sunday's parade!

Chinese New Year: Firecracker Ceremony and Parade Coming Up This Week

Two of the neighborhood's largest and most colorful events are back this week.  As you probably know, it's the Year of the Horse.  The Lunar New Year is being celebrated in Chinatown. On Friday at 11 a.m., the Better Chinatown...

Memorial Services Set For Chinatown Activist Paul Lee This Week

Friends and loved ones this week are remembering Paul J. Q. Lee, a well known Chinatown activist who died after suffering a heart attack over the weekend. He was 63.  Lee's family owned the Mott Street General Store, which...
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Report Details Strategies For Bolstering Chinatown/LES Affordable Housing

For the past several years, a coalition known as the Chinatown Working Group has been trying to come up with a long-range plan for the neighborhood.  This month, they're taking a set of new proposals to local community boards...

City Council Co-Names Section of Elizabeth Street “Private Danny Chen Way”

The City Council has voted to co-name of section of Elizabeth Street in memory of Army Private Danny Chen. Chen, a 19-year-old Chinatown native, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at an Afghanistan military base in 2011,...

281 Grand Street: Sold For $8 Million Four Months Ago; On the Market Now For $13 Million

Here's a curious real estate listing.  A 15,000 square foot tenement building, 281 Grand St., is on the market for $13 million, $5 million above the most recent sale price just four months ago, In August, the building, located...
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Video: Serial Jewelry Store Robbers in Chinatown

Police are searching for several suspects responsible for robberies at jewelry stores in Manhattan's Chinatown and the Chinatowns in Brooklyn and Queens. On at least six occasions since September, cops say, the crew has struck retail businesses; one member of...
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LES Film Festival’s Summer Series Concludes with Free Screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild

Our friends at the Lower East Side Film Festival have another free and fun film screening coming up at...