At the AAPI Care Fair in Chinatown’s Columbus Park. Photo courtesy of Michelle Tran, of Soar Over Hate Chinatown Care Fair Provides NYC’s Asian-American Community With Healing Volunteers gathered in Chinatown’s Columbus Park last Sunday to help the local Asian-American community heal from the recent... News 20 May 2022 | 11:31
Manhattan Borough President at a recent hearing. Photo: Emily Higginbotham Brewer holds SoHo/NoHo hearing After a four hour plus meeting where residents expressed their discontent with the proposed upzoning of SoHo/NoHo, the project... Home 30 Aug 2021 | 12:19
Muhammad Ali with Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton (center) and M.B. Lee (left), President of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association on “Muhammad Ali Day,” December 9, 1974. Photo: Emile Bocian, courtesy of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) A Photographer’s Focus on Chinatown COVID-19 has challenged many cultural institutions to completely change their events to fit with public safety guidelines.... City Arts 24 Mar 2021 | 11:31
Victoria Lee and friend at a drop-off. ( Photo courtesy of Welcome to Chinatown) On a Mission to Save Chinatown Manhattan today is so different than it was just two months ago. Bursting neon lights have been replaced by shuttered businesses,... News 22 Apr 2020 | 01:01
The author, with her parents and Grandma Saro, in Stuyvesant Town in the 1990s ( Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Arocho) Bittersweet Memories of the Lower East Side I went to Wo Hop, a Chinatown hole in the wall, for the first time in 1987. I was still in my mother’s womb, and she and... Voices 27 Dec 2019 | 02:27
After the Slaughter Manhattanites don’t shock easily. They’re well aware that big-city life is often punctuated with trauma and peril and pain.... News 08 Oct 2019 | 01:37
