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Posts tagged as “CHINATOWN”

Is it possible to close Rikers without building a new jail in Chinatown?

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | “While most Chinatown businesses focus on food, health and medicine, this Chinatown dig specializes in mass incarceration,” activist and comedian says…

‘Stop Asian killing!’ Korean leaders demand safety after brutal Chinatown murder

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Outrage and frustration within the Asian community boiled over at a rally Tuesday just steps from where Christina Yuna Lee, 35,…

Constitutional challenge filed against Soho/Noho rezoning

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A lawsuit seeking to “annul and vacate” the Soho/Noho/Chinatown rezoning charges that the scheme would cause “mass displacement” of thousands of…

Protesters slam Chinatown ‘mega-jail,’ demand Adams honor his pledge, scrap project

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | The protesters’ demands are pretty simple: No new jails! It’s actually the same thing that Eric Adams said almost a year…

City Council O.K.’s Soho/Noho rezoning; Opponents slam affordable housing pledge as ‘smoke and mirrors’

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Thurs., Dec. 16, 1:30 p.m.: Local residents didn’t think it could be done. They prayed it wouldn’t be done. But…

Don’t redistrict East Side and West Side together or Chinatown and Lower East Side apart, locals say

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Residents and community advocates are concerned that historically united neighborhood districts could be split up after the next round of state…

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