Community leaders came to the Bowery earlier this week, shovels in hand, to celebrate the planting of 37 trees (many of them cherry trees) alongside Confucius Plaza.
State Senator Daniel Squadron worked with the Parks Department and neighborhood activists...
The group behind a campaign for a business improvement district in Chinatown is stepping up its pr offensive. We received a lengthy news release earlier today touting the establishment of a BID as an anecdote to several of the...
This just in from State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver:
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver announced today that several streets in the heart of Chinatown that have been of concern to the community will be repaved. Silver reached out to the Department of...
Last night, I participated in a panel discussion at the Museum of Chinese in America on "what's working and what's not in mainstream media coverage of Manhattan's Chinatown." The conversation was led by Paul Cheung of the Associated Press....
Our friends at The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council will be hosting the second annual "Marco Polo Day" on Saturday. The occasion is a celebration of the co-existence of two communities, Chinatown & Little Italy, which was inagurated last year...
There's been lots of talk recently about the pros and cons of creating a Chinatown Business Improvement District. Critics of the plan have emerged both in the historic heart of Chinatown, but also in Soho and the Lower East...
For the last five years, Mary Fitzgerald has baked custom-order sweets for weddings, birthdays and other occasions in a rented commercial kitchen in Long Island City, schlepping her ingredients and finished products hither and thither and relying on word-of-mouth...
It has been nearly a year-and-a-half since two preschool students in Chinatown were killed after an unoccupied van, left in reverse, jumped a sidewalk on East Broadway and plowed into a class returning from a trip to the Chatham...
A 7 alarm fire broke out in Chinatown last night, injuring several people. Firefighters converged on a 6-story residential and commercial building at 283-285 Grand Street, shortly after 10pm. 10 firefighters, a medical worker and three civilians were among...
Victor Papa of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council is fond of saying that Italians and Chinese in Lower Manhattan have enjoyed more harmonious relations than any ethnic groups in the city. Living side by side in Chinatown and Little...
