Eateries like Golden Mandarin Court, Amazing 66 and Hope Shing are shuttering after months of quarantine restrictions and decreased tourism. ‘It’s been four months now. It’s not getting any better,’ one owner said.
For the city’s borough-based jail plan, this is a temporary halt, not a permanent rest. And for the community members fighting the plan, there’s still a long way to go.
‘Nowhere is America’s problematic relationship to Chinese-Americans more apparent than on Doyers Street in Chinatown, Manhattan. To many, it’s the Bloody Angle.’
In the third and final part of the BRIC-City Limits series, we hear from a veteran New York City Chinese-language reporter about how her readers view the presidential race.
While some mainstream retail chain stores have run out of items like toilet paper and canned foods, many supermarkets run by Chinese and Korean immigrants have adequate supply.
At P.S. 124, the Yung Wing School in Chinatown, where more than 90 percent of students are Asian, more than 50 – or 10 to 15 percent of students – missed school on March 10.
‘By dining here, we want to show that there is nothing to be afraid of in Chinatown and discrimination has no space here.’
Though no cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in New York, several local Chinese community organizations have cancelled or postponed their Lunar New Year galas to prevent the virus from spreading.
Community leaders attribute the decline to the trade war between the U.S. and China.
Once ubiquitous in the immigrant neighborhood, Flushing’s Chinese-run discount shops are now struggling thanks to the competition from newly-arrived chain stores, a scorching trade war, rising rents and demographic changes in the area, World Journal reports.