Last night, Community Board 3's transportation committee gave Marilyn Louie some much-needed support in her ongoing and all-of-a-sudden highly publicized fight with City Hall. As you might have heard, Louie ran afoul of two NYC agencies after they required...
The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council is hosting a workshop tomorrow for property owners interested in accessing generous tax credits available for historic preservation. The organization helped lead a successful effort to get Chinatown and Little Italy listed on the...
You have, no doubt, heard by now that New York Nicks sensation Jeremy Lin has been "couch surfing" in his brother's Lower East Side apartment. We haven't found him hanging out on Ludlow Street in the past week (he's...
Thanks to Florence Eng for sending us these photos from the Lion Dance activities that took place the day before the big parade. She writes: I love the publicity (the float parade on Sunday) receives but the lion dancing...
Our friends at the Chinatown YMCA sent in a photo from their Chinese New Year celebration, held last weekend. They write: "Volunteers from the Asian Language Exchange and Social Network offered Cantonese and Mandarin lessons and visitors and Y...
We were at Gouverneur Healthcare Services yesterday, where a performance by the little ones from the Chinatown Daycare Center was a highlight of the skilled nursing facility's Chinese New Year Celebration. Seven centenarians were honored during the lively program,...
According to the Better Chinatown Society, the event sponsor, yesterday's Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown drew more than 400,000 spectators. We took in the sights and sounds along Mott Street, just barely surviving the press section mosh pit...
Thousands of people lined the streets of Chinatown today for the annual Lunar New Year Parade, sponsored by the Better Chinatown Society. Tomorrow we'll have a full photo album from today's festivities.
