More than three years after one of the most devastating fires in Chinatown history, tenants of 289 Grand St. celebrate a return to their homes.
Back in May, the residents - who were displaced from their homes since April of...
A big victory today for the residents of 289 Grand Street, who have been fighting for two years to return home to their apartments after a devastating fire. A housing court judge ruled in their favor, saying the property...
Asian Americans For Equality announced the 2011 Honorees for the 2011 Chinatown Summer Street Festival with the theme, "Building Green and Healthy Communities." The honorees include Dylan House - Program Manager at Hester Street Collaborative, Kirsti Bambridge - Outreach...
This Sunday, August 7, from 11-4, Asian Americans for Equality hosts its annual Chinatown Summer Streets Festival. Held in Columbus Park and along Bayard between Baxter and Mott Streets, the festival promotes Chinatown businesses and highlights the cultural and historical...
A newly released report looks at how the Asian American population in neighborhoods across the city, including in Manhattan's Chinatown, is changing. According to the analysis of Census data by the the advocacy and housing organization, Asian Americans for...
In Albany, the annual battle over New York's byzantine rent laws is starting to heat up. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver might refuse to extend a tax break benefiting real estate developers unless...
We have more now on the future of 289 Grand, one of four buildings ravaged in last month's 7-alarm fire. As we reported this morning, the landlord, Wong's Grand Street Realty, notified residents it intends to terminate their leases...
Contractors are working quickly to take down the Grand Street buildings destroyed by fire one week ago. This was the scene yesterday afternoon -- workers hovering above the wreckage, carefully removing the top floors of 283 and 285 Grand.
On...
From Grand Street, the destruction caused by Sunday night's fire looks bad enough. But this morning, we have new photos taken from inside 289 Grand (the building on the corner of Grand and Eldridge Streets) illustrating the full extent...
