Sentences with phrase «as chinatown»

Rees collects and re-contextualizes materials from various neighborhoods such as Chinatown and Bushwick to illustrate both the ingenuity and inequality of street life in increasingly urbanized societies.

This past Sunday, a group of protesters, including representatives from the activist collectives Chinatown Art Brigade and Decolonize This Place as well as Chinatown residents, occupied the James Cohan Gallery's space in the neighborhood.

A group of artists and activists known as the Chinatown Art Brigade — established in 2015 by Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong, and Betty Yu — have called out what they perceive to be racism in the current exhibition at James Cohan Gallery's Chinatown location in New York.

This area is also close to a number of cultural and enjoyable areas such as Chinatown and very close to some of the most notorious shopping malls in all of Indonesia.

The Travelodge Sydney offers guests a great inner city location that is also close to premier attractions such as Chinatown, Darling Harbour, the Capitol Theatre and Central Railway Station.

Many of the city's famous attractions, such as Chinatown and Canal Street, are nearby.

The surrounding development within the immediate area is a blend of the entertainment district of Sydney being at the southern extremities of George Street which also includes the well known restaurant district known as Chinatown.

Sitting atop of the famous Darling Harbour precinct and a stones throw away from popular attractions such as Chinatown, Sydney Aquarium and the Sydney Entertainment Centre, the Oaks Goldsbrough Apartments offers all the amenities and services of a modern hotel in the spaciousness of self - contained serviced apartments.

The hotel is easily access from all directions such as Chinatown (walking distance) that famous with Semawis market on Friday and Saturday night, Simpang lima area (2 km) as a center of government offices, shopping and entertainment area, Train Station (3 km), Airport (13 km).

Ethnic grocery stores If your town has an ethnic shopping area such as a Chinatown or Little India, it's probably a great place to pick up cheap produce, as well as noodles and rice.

It's a walking distance from Petaling Street which is known as Chinatown.

The City should provide planning and community organizing resources to organizations such as the Chinatown Working Group, which has brought together many of Chinatown's diverse stakeholders, in order to allow them to undertake a community - based process for meeting Chinatown's traffic concerns and related planning issues, with cultural and linguistic sensitivity to the area's unique character.

To complement the menu is a cocktail and beer list created by THREE KINGS Restaurant Group partner John Bush that embrace's TALDE's East - meets - West spirit with cocktails such as the Chinatown ($ 14) with Brugal Añejo, Laird's Applejack, lime, amarena cherry and brown sugar; and Green Lightning ($ 12) made with house - infused green tea vodka, green tea, cucumber and lime.

Le Méridien is also just steps away from San Francisco's main leisure attractions such as Chinatown and the California Street cable cars, with easy access to Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli Square.

These enclaves — such as Chinatown, Arab Street, and Little India — though unofficial now, still exist to this day, and each area has its own markets, spice shops, and restaurants.

Heyman also had begun to co-finance major movies such as Chinatown, The Odessa File, The Rocky Horror Show and Marathon Man.

Not exact matches

Protestors clashed with riot police as they tried to break through barricades in the Chinatown neighborhood, sparking fears of escalating ethnic tension.

Polanski, the director of Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, has lived as a fugitive from the U.S. after being charged with drugging and raping a 13 - year - old in 1977.

The bus service that ferries passengers on the cheap between Chinatown and Boston has temporarily ceased operation as ordered by the federal Department of Transportation, according to both Lucky Star's and the DOT's website.

I thought it was strange they felt they needed to mark their businesses as gay - friendly (since they all are), until I found out that it's actually to show solidarity with the large gay community living in that area, which is the neighbourhood adjecent to ours (we live in Chinatown).

Even as an NYC gal, I saw it in Chinatown perhaps only a few times...

Despite being smack dab between Fisherman's Warf and Chinatown, San Francisco's North Beach somehow is able to maintain its charm and dignity as an Italian cornerstone.

So, I live in NYC and as I'm reading your post about not being able to find larger dried dates in Colorado, I would love to send you something from NYC's Chinatown!

Nestled in Chinatown — one of Washington, DC's most vibrant neighborhoods — the Fairfield Inn and Suites is also conveniently close to museums, national landmarks and attractions such as: The White House, Smithsonian Institution, the National Mall, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial.

Plus, the dessert you ate at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar -LRB-... in Santa Monica... far from Chinatown) is weighing heavily on your mind because they had fantastic strawberries and peas in March, and as an East Coaster saddled with a single, brief growing season each year, that just seemed so unfair.

The first time I experienced the «PB&J of Asia,» as my Instagram pal @desireekoh13 calls it, was at this 80 - year - old cafe in BKK's Chinatown.

The complex houses nationally acclaimed restaurants such as Khai Vu's District 1 whose Lobster Pho and Big Bone Pho are now legendary and Food and Wine Magazine Sommelier of the Year in 2013 — Bank Atcharawans Chada Thai, Both now Las Vegas Chinatown dining destinations and institutions are part of the foodie strip mall.

Fresh and authentic ingredients such as Thai basil and Malaysian spices are sourced locally from open - air farmers markets in Chinatown.

Wilson Tang inherited the oldest restaurant in Chinatown from his uncle Wally, who started at Nom Wah Tea Parlor as a dishwasher in the 1970s.

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.

Manhattan Councilman Margaret Chin, whose Lower Manhattan district includes Chinatown, pointed to the impact of the policy on Chinese immigrants as well as on immigrants who are seniors.

«While I support the goal of eventually closing down Rikers, any proposal that involves diverting inmates to this already crowded complex is not a feasible solution,» Council Member Margaret Chin, from Chinatown, said of the lower Manhattan jail known as the Tombs

Dignitaries such as U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Comptroller John Liu, State Senator Daniel Squadron and City Council member Margaret Chin came to Chinatown last week to help Asian Americans for Equality celebrate its 38th anniversary.

This district includes Chinatown, a neighborhood that has steadfastly served as the epicenter of growth and opportunity for many Asian immigrants since the 1900s.

It is sad the very communities that need to be represented the most are used as pawns by the likes of political clubs like the Lower East Dems (John Quinn, Alice's husband), the Truman Club (Shelly still at the wheel), and UDO (insider Chinatown club not representative of the population).

In the deep - blue district Mr. Silver ruled for decades, spanning a shrinking Jewish domain on the Lower East Side, the growing sprawl of Chinatown, a burgeoning Hispanic constituency and the educated - professional precincts of Battery Park City, Ms. Cancel's victory seemed assured after a group of local Democrats chose her as their nominee.

Lester Chang, a businessman and naval reservist who grew up in Chinatown, ran as the Republican candidate and earned 15.04 percent of the vote.

The former speaker walked with other politicians waving to the crowd, as he does most years for Chinatown's biggest event.

Wading into a mob of reporters outside the court, he and Adam stayed silent and stone - faced as they walked down Mulberry Street into Chinatown for their car.

Sources tell the Observer that many leaders in the Asian - American community based in Liu's native neighborhood of Flushing consider Chinatown, which makes up a large chunk of Silver's old district, as part of their rightful turf.

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.

With 97 % of the vote counted, she has 58 % in the 7th Congressional District, which includes sections of the Lower East Side and Chinatown as well as a large swath of Brooklyn.

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.

Gigi Li, the chairwoman of the Lower East Side and Chinatown's Community Board 3, who serves as the director of Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, is also running for the Democratic candidacy.

Chin's district covers most of the area below East Houston, including the Lower East Side and Chinatown, as well as Soho, Tribeca and the Financial District.

As a result, it uncovers true moments of genius, like this one today about State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose Lower East Side district includes Chinatown:

He also cited worries about flood protection in the low - lying area and noted the city's refusal to consider a large - scale rezoning of the community as proposed by the Chinatown Working Group.

«These are critical issues impacting the very survival of Chinatown and the Lower East Side as low - income communities.»

«Today she is rallying outside of DCP,» said Marte, «to protest towers that wouldn't even have been imagined if she had supported the community - based rezoning plan (as envisioned by the Chinatown Working Group).

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.