Yesterday we posted photos and video from Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Chinatown. Today more images, courtesy of downtown photojournalist Tim Schreier. Click through for an interesting perspective on the Year of the Dragon.
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It was a dramatic scene in Sara D. Roosevelt Park earlier today, as community leaders and residents ushered in the Year of the Dragon. The event kicked off a series of festivities in celebration of the Lunar Chinese New...
The Year of the Dragon officially begins on Monday, Jan. 23, and the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration begins this weekend around Chinatown and the Lower East Side. We've collected a list of local events below; if we missed any, send...
Last March. residents got the chance to tell city officials what they'd like to see done with Forsyth Plaza, the triangle at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. Asian Americans For Equality, the neighborhood advocacy organization, had received a...
Since Private Danny Chen died in Afghanistan in October, his loved ones have struggled to learn the events leading up to his death. Yesterday, thanks to tireless advocacy by his family and activists in the Chinese-American community, the U.S. Army finally provided...
The Danny Chen investigation is now front page news. Yesterday, the U.S. military announced that eight soldiers have been charged in connection with the October 3rd death of the 19-year old Lower East Side resident. This morning's New York...
Here's an update on a story we reported earlier today: the U.S. military's decision to charge eight soldiers inconnection with the death of Army Private Danny Chen. The body of the 19-year old Lower East Side resident was found...
Hundreds of community activists and concerned residents marched from the Army recruiting office at 143 Chambers Street to Columbus Park last night, asking one question: "what happened to Danny Chen?" It has been two-and-a-half months since the 19-year old...
The City Council yesterday approved a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation - stalled for many months - to regulate discount interstate bus companies. Following a series of deadly accidents involving to so-called Chinatown buses, there was...
The historic Nom Wah Tea Parlor on Doyers Street has been serving some of the best dim sum in Chinatown for generations. These days, the New York Post reports, it's also one of several businesses making Chinatown a "hot"...
