Sentences with phrase «representing chinatown»
It includes a wonderful charm of the Hollywood Bowel, a camera man, a pagoda, likely representing Chinatown, a laughing buddha, perhaps to represent Little Tokyo, Farmer's Market, a plane, likely to represent the Los Angeles Air Force Base, and a dancing señorita to represent Olvera Street.
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The attorney representing Chinatown developer William H. Su says he will appeal a decision from the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal ordering payments to the displaced tenants of 128 Hester.
City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who represents Chinatown and accompanied the family to a recent meeting with Pentagon officials about Chen's death, commended his family for drawing attention to the issue and speaking out.
«I am honored to continue to represent this Chinatown community.»
«By creating real penalties, this law will send a message to drivers that they have an obligation to drive carefully and keep our streets safe,» state Sen. Daniel Squadron, who represents Chinatown and introduced the bill in the Senate, said in a statement.
Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's district will likely be led by Yuh - Line Niou, the first Asian - American lawmaker to represent Chinatown.
Chin, a community organizer and immigrant advocate who speaks three Chinese dialects, is expected to become the first Chinese - American to represent Chinatown in city council.
Margaret Chin is the first Chinese American to represent Chinatown in the City Council.
The same dynamic was in play in Silver's old district where Niou became the first Asian to represent Chinatown in the state Legislature.
«I am humbled to be the first Asian - American to represent Chinatown or any part of Manhattan in the state legislature,» she added.
Not exact matches
CM Chin, a member of the Council's Progressive Caucus, represents Lower Manhattan, including Chinatown.
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 Chinatown, they have a special nickname for the assembly speaker, who represents the district.
«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.
She becomes the first Chinese councilmember to represent Manhattan's Chinatown, and the first Asian woman on the City Council.
Kavanagh now represents the Lower East Side and Chinatown, in addition to the rest of downtown NYC and several communities across the river in Brooklyn.
Rounding out the top five recipients of the PAC's largesse were City Council member Margaret Chin, running for re-election to represent Lower Manhattan, including Soho and Chinatown, with $ 121,108; Alan Maisel, running for a seat in South Brooklyn covering Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie, with $ 120,451; and Paul Vallone, an attorney running in a crowded contest for a seat in northeastern Queens, including Bayside and Whitestone, for whom the PAC has spent $ 113,134.
And I don't think nonChinatown people from Queens or Battery Park City should be representing any area that covers Chinatown.
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.
Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who represents the Lower East Side and Chinatown criticized the proposed cuts, too, calling them «some of the most debilitating our city has ever seen.»
It also addresses the artist's practice in the context of Chinatown: «As a gallery representing the non U.S., non New York based artist Omer Fast, it is reprehensible that you see fit to support this exploration of «temporal space» while contributing to the displacement of low income tenants and business owners in Chinatown.
[Slide: James Siena] James Siena, a renowned abstract painter represented by Pace, recently opened a small gallery in Chinatown called Sometimes (Works of Art).
Calling themselves the Chinatown Art Brigade, the activists issued a statement claiming that the «choice of visual signifiers» represented «racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown».
Inviting a community of Santa Monica based youth into the Artist Lab, while simultaneously realizing a body of work based on objects and texts found in an estate sale at Chinatown's Charlie James Gallery, Fallah has represented a circle of life in his project: portraits of identity constructed forensically on behalf of the deceased, contrasting with his portraits at 18th Street made collaboratively with youth to describe their lives as yet unknown.
As an artist that's being represented by James Cohan Gallery, demand that James Cohan Gallery and other galleries actually do the right thing and try to support policies that would protect Chinatown, policies like the Chinatown Working Group plan.
Exhibit curators Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker visited studios across Southern California, spanning Chinatown, Compton, Downtown, East Los Angeles, Echo Park, Highland Park, Inglewood, Joshua Tree, Ladera Heights, Leimert Park, San Diego, Santa Monica, Venice and Ventura and chose 26 artists and artistic collaborations to represent the breadth of art that the region produces.