Jessica Chen is being sponsored by the Museum of the Chinese in American to mark AAPI Heritage Month which celebrates history while looking to fight prejudice and dispel stereotypes. Photo: Maggie Wong Heroes and Myths as MOCA and Jessica Chen Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) month, Jessica Chen and friends at the Museum of the Chinese Americans... News 22 May 2023 | 02:55
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... News 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 Bursting neon lights have been replaced by shuttered businesses,...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
