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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
It's been about three weeks since photos first surfaced indicating that remnants from the Revolutionary War-era Bull's Head Tavern might still lay below 50 Bowery, a demolition site just below Canal Street. Here are the latest developments.
Last month, local...
A new hotel -- with a large Chinese grocery on the ground floor -- is scheduled to debut any day now on the border of Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
Landing in our in-box this morning was a...
The leadership of the Chinatown Working Group, a community planning organization, asked us to help get the word out about its "resident survey." The survey is being coordinated by the Pratt Center/Collective Partnership in preparation for a planning and...
Chinatown's Museum of Chinese in America will be hosting Asian CineVision's 36th Asian American International Film Festival tomorrow starting at 5 p.m. A special program"For Youth By Youth" will feature the works of filmmakers of Asian descent from the age of...
