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  The Friends of Gulick Park got some good news this week.  For the past year, we've been reporting about their efforts to transform the ragged little section of the neighborhood at Delancey and Willett streets. The City Council had...

On Sunday, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senator Daniel Squadron gathered with community activists and displaced residents at the scene of April's Grand Street fire. In a mid-day news conference, Silver touted a bill waiving bank fees...

Yesterday, we reported officials with the U.S. Census had gone to Community Board 3, asking for help in gaining access to several buildings in the neighborhood. One of the developments they mentioned was the Hillman Cooperative on Grand Street,...

Last week, we reported on Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's meeting with members of the Chinatown Working Group. During that meeting, he promised to look into reasons for the continued closure of Park Row, ten years after 9/11. Community activists,...

Today State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is out with a statement on 289 Grand, a building heavily damaged in last month's 7-alarm fire. Last week the landlord had notified residents their leases were being terminated, asserting there was no...

The Seward Park Co-op announced this afternoon it has ended a long legal battle with Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company over the 1999 collapse of a parking garage.  Back in 2004, a jury awarded the cooperative $18 million...

The human toll of this week's destructive fire on Grand Street came into sharp focus last night. A large number of residents displaced by the blaze crowded into the basement of the Chinese Benevolent Association on Mott Street for...

This just in from State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office regarding the 7-alarm fire at 285 Grand Street last night: Today’s devastating fire on Grand Street has displaced more than sixty families and injured several of the building’s inhabitants and...

No one ever accused Harold "Heshy" Jacob of holding back. A dominant figure on Grand Street for more than 30 years, he has strong opinions and is not afraid to express them loud enough for everyone to hear. Calling...

Sheldon Silver congratulating Margaret Chin Margaret Chin made history last night, coasting to an easy win in the District 1 City Council race. She becomes the first Chinese councilmember to represent Manhattan's Chinatown, and the first Asian woman on the...