Sentences with phrase «new chinatown»

She is a former co-director of exhibitions at the New Chinatown Barbershop gallery in Los Angeles and with Ybarra, co-founded Slanguage Studio, an artist collective and art space founded in 2002 in Wilmington, CA.

She has designed a walking tour of Los Angeles Chinatown; written the companion guidebook for Angels Walk L.A. to celebrate the opening of the MTA's new Chinatown metro station; and curated the inaugural exhibition for the grand opening of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles in the winter of 2003.

The Wyndham Gardens Chinatown, the site proclaims, «starts with a structure similar to a giant shard of blue glass that cuts through the Manhattan skyline to create an unforgettable presence in the new Chinatown.»

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New York's governor signed into law new regulations for Chinatown buses in 2012 requiring them to stop only at designated placNew York's governor signed into law new regulations for Chinatown buses in 2012 requiring them to stop only at designated placnew regulations for Chinatown buses in 2012 requiring them to stop only at designated places.

The term «Chinatown bus» refers to any of the many bus companies that run out of tiny storefronts in New York's Chinatown to and from destinations around the US.

Anybody who's seen Chinatown can guess at the sordid history of the real estate deals that helped transform Los Angeles from a dusty burgh to a global capital of glamour, and for Gross — who sold truckloads of his previous book, 740 Park, a history of New York's richest apartment building and its residents — the estates of Beverly Hills and Bel Air prove fertile ground.

In 2008, BuzzFeed had just five employees working in an office in New York City's Chinatown district, and its website was attracting just 700,000 unique visitors a month.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Bread Furst (Van Ness) Compass Coffee (Shaw, 8th Street NW, Chinatown, 18th & Eye Street) Each Peach Market (Mount Pleasant Street NW) Glen's Garden Market (Dupont, Shaw) Little Red Fox (Upper NW / Chevy Chase) MOM's Organic Market (New York Ave) Odd Provisions (11th St NW) Peregrine Espresso (Penn Quarter, MidCity, Union Market) Pleasant Pops (Downtown) Red Apron Butcher (Penn Quarter) Salt & Sundry (Union Market, Logan Circle) Union Kitchen (3rd Street, 9th Street)

You know, like when I sat down at the small but famous H K Wonton Garden in New York's Chinatown, and devoured an entire bowl of Chinese dumpling soup.

Towne Park is now serving more of the Washington DC area at the newest Fairfield Inn and Suites in DC's Chinatown.

You can buy the Bedside Carafe on Coming Soon New York's website, or by visiting their Chinatown location at 37 Orchard Street.

Hong Kong - born Grandfather Kam Wah Chui, 77, used to manage a bustling Chinese restaurant in New York City's Chinatown.

This is Chinese food in Chinatown, that is more like the upscale stuff you find in our better hotels» He goes on to say «Jimmy Li is a serious Chef» «This is serious Chinese food, for serious people who want to taste upscale stuff» They are the best new Chinese restaurant and I am very excited about it.

did you go to new harmony in chinatown?

Hi Caitlin - I want to say the name of the restaurant in Chinatown we visited was New Harmony — but I know we passed at least three that were vegan friendly - so I'm not positive on that one - wherever we went, it was amazing.

I think maybe you have a Hollywood view of China, or have been to «Chinatown» in New York or «Frisco.

And you can celebrate them in fine fashion this weekend at the Year of the Hare Lion Dance Parade in Chinatown, 23rd Annual Lunar New Year Festival in Quincy, and Peabody Essex Museum Lunar New Year Festival in Salem.

New park facilities planned for 1999 include the completion of a 12 - acre park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public use.

A new boathouse along the Chicago River in Chinatown is handsome enough to make you wish that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push to build more of these access points to the river was moving with speedboat swiftness, not the dawdling pace of a canoe.

Among the popular locations visited include Chinatown, Greektown, the Du Sable Museum of African American History, the Sear Towers and the Shedd Aquarium with its new Oceanarium, plus many lesser - known ethnic museums.

Former New York City Republican mayor Rudy Giuliani is actually hosting a fundraiser tonight for Chang at The 88 Palace in Chinatown.

If it doesn't work out they are even looking at Sunday night as a possibility, but Monday begins the Chinese New Year, and the Chinatown portion of the district will not want it then.

Brooklyn Reporter article on Borough President Adams joining Mayor de Blasio in announcing a new «Friendship Archway» to be installed in Sunset Park's Chinatown on Eighth Avenue between 60th and 61st Streets.

Among the honorees are: Wen Zhou, CEO of fashion house Phillip Lim 3.1; Sherry Chan, New York City's chief actuary; Jiayang Fan, a writer for The New Yorker; and in memoriam, Ricky Leung, a well - known Chinatown / Two Bridges leader who died earlier this year.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will hold a media availability to make an announcement on neighborhood rat reduction, New York Chinatown Senior Citizen Center, 70 Mulberry St., Manhattan.

New low - income housing would have likely been occupied by Asian families from nearby Chinatown or by some of the 1,800 families, mostly Puerto Rican, who were moved out by the city in the 1960s to make way for development... Silver indulged in myriad other small - scale hustles over the years.

What is one minute a seedy strip club in New York's Chinatown is instantly transformed into the cabin of an aeroplane or the sterile claustrophobia of a Beijing police cell.

Chinatown Restaurant Week will run through March 18, with other participating restaurants including Delight 28, Grand Bo Ky Restaurant, Emperor Japanese Tapas Shabu Restaurant, HK Wonton Garden, Lobster Boat, Lucky Plaza Restaurant, Mika Japanese Cuisine & Bar, Nha Trang One, Pho Grand, Red Egg, Shanghai Gourmet, New West Malaysian and Xe Lửa Vietnamese Restaurant.

Assemblymember Sheldon Silver, center, marching in Chinatown's Lunar New Year parade Feb. 22.

Is there a Chinatown contact person to help new immigrants find housing or get on the waiting list at NYCHA or do they go through the «associations»?

Here are the nine new members of Community Board 3, which covers the Lower East Side, East Village and Chinatown:

«Asian - Americans have been a traditionally under - represented group in New York politics, part of the endorsement reflects the fact that I think we could use a stronger Asian - American voice in the legislature,» he said, at a press conference in Chinatown's Chatham Square.

The Better Chinatown Society sponsored today's event and is coordinating Sunday's New Year parade through the streets of Chinatown.

Many new members own small businesses, including Wilson Tang, 33, who runs the 90 - year - old Chinatown fixture, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, which has been in his family for decades.

Photographer Harvey Spears sent us these fantastic photographs from Chinatown this past Sunday, as the neighborhood celebrated Lunar New Year and the Year of the Rabbit.

Tang said that he's especially interested in working on issues affecting quality of life in Chinatown, where tons of new bars are opening up.

Some community leaders in Chinatown say Silver has worked hard for their neighborhood as well, and credit him with helping to get the Lunar New Year approved as a potential school holiday in the city.

MANHATTAN — New York State Senator Daniel Squadron has launched a Chinese - language hotline, hoping to break down the language barrier between Chinatown residents and the senate.

At a rally in Chinatown, hundreds cheered Liu, who hopes to become the first Asian ever elected to citywide office in New York.

Downtown families living east of Broadway, including many in Southbridge Towers, have said they would oppose sending their children to Chinatown schools, since there are two other schools that are closer to them: the Spruce Street School, which opened this fall near City Hall, and the new Peck Slip School, which will open in an incubator space in Tweed Courthouse next fall.

There were 328 new applicants, including 24 in Community Board 3, which covers the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

New York State's Division of Housing and Community Renewal ordered the landlord of 128 Hester Street in Chinatown to pay more than $ 1 million...

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

A long - time resident and activist in New York City's Chinatown, Jenny is the first Chinese - American elected as a Democratic District Leader in the Chinatown / Lower East Side area, a party position that she has held since 1995.

Affordable housing advocates believe a recent ruling from the State of New York ordering a Chinatown building owner to pay more than a million dollars to the former residents of 128 Hester Street has broad implications.

The district includes Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bushwick, East New York, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, Sunset Park and part of Park Slope in Brooklyn; Ridgewood, Maspeth and Woodside in Queens; and parts of the Lower East Side and Chinatown in Manhattan (map)

Five of the candidates — Don Lee, Gigi Li, Yuh - Line Niou, Paul Newell and Jenifer Rajkumar — presented themselves as reformers, poised to bring new ideas and energy in representing southernmost Manhattan, a diverse district that includes Chinatown, the gentrifying Lower East Side, Wall Street and Battery Park City.

CHINATOWN — The tenants fighting to stay in a Chinatown building damaged by a devastating blaze last month have a powerful new ally.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Margaret Chin, Rep. Carolyn Maloney at this year's Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown.

About 14 percent of the city's public school students are Asian, and schools such as P.S. 130 in Chinatown have seen absence rates of 80 percent on the Lunar New Year, Silver said.