By Wendy Wong Did you break out the moon cakes this weekend? AsianinNY kicked off Chinatown’s mid-autumn festivities with their 4th Annual Moon Festival and Fashion Show, as Saturday night’s event fused East Meets West in a blend of food, drinks, fashion, art, music and dance. The celebration attracted a mix of young and old, [...]
By Wen Hao Wang A plan to place a Greyhound bus stop in front of Seward Park has been denied in face of opposition from local residents. Greyhound and partner Peter Pan proposed launching YO! Bus to ferry passengers to and from Philadelphia 8 times daily. Ticketing offices would be a few blocks away on E. [...]
By Wen Hao Wang Plenty of opening events to keep you occupied through the week into the weekend. Locating the Sacred Sept 12-23, 2012 Coordinated by the Asian American Arts Alliance, Locating the Sacred is a city-wide arts festival celebrating the community and movement that brought Asian American artists together as a collective voice. This [...]
By Alison Kuo These guys are the essence of what’s amazing about Columbus Park in New York City’s Chinatown, a place where old people congregate to jam Peking Opera. Jam hard, too. Their music is not for wimps. It is loud, percussive, and strange, full of high-pitched wailing and gender swapping, and sometimes you have [...]
Story and photographs by Shirley Lew Yesterday couldn’t be any more beautiful with the sun out and new plants in the bedding at Columbus Park. Members of Asian Americans for Equality showed off their green thumbs on “Park Beautification Day” by planting and mulching at Chinatown’s popular park. Herbs and flowering plants found new homes along [...]
Michelle Jiang, staff reporter The traditional 15-day celebration of the Lunar New Year ends this Monday. While some students return to school as they would from any weekend, others have just touched down on a long-haul flight from the other side of the world. During the New Year’s break, a handful of Chinatown parents find [...]
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Shirley Lew, contributing reporter After a hard race, some runners would chug a bottle of electrolytes to replenish and recover sore muscles. Powered By Dim Sum (PBDS), a social running group does it differently. Instead, they’ve been dining post-race in local Chinese restaurants to feast on dim sum since 2002. These runners are passionate about [...]
Alex Peng, staff reporter Thanksgiving Day, the epitome of an American holiday, arrives in the midst of societal unrest. In this land of the free, we saw organizations such as the Occupy Wall Street protesters keep their freedom of speech in tents at Zuccotti Park until the NYPD ordered them to be emptied out. [...]
Alex Peng, Staff Reporter The statue of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, located at Columbus Park, was dedicated at high noon on November 12th. State Senator Daniel Squadron, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association President Jack Eng, and hunderds of community leaders attended the dedication ceremony. Tweet
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