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Members of the Godzilla collective, ca. 1990. Courtesy Godzilla. The Museum of Chinese in America in New York has called off an exhibition focusing on a 1990s Asian American art collective after the majority of the participating artists withdrew. The 19 artists, who were members of the group Godzilla, oppose the museum’s acceptance of $35 million in city funds, which they say suggests its complicity in the construction of a new jail in Chinatown that is part of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s plan ...

March 11, 2021 at 3:00pm New York’s Museum of Chinese in America has canceled an exhibition of work by pioneering artist collective Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network after nineteen of the group’s members withdrew in protest of what they contend is the museum’s support for a large new jail in Chinatown, where the institution is located. The exhibition, “Godzilla vs. the Art World: 1990–2001,” was to open in May focusing on the efforts of the collective ov...

The Uncertain Recovery of Manhattan’s Chinatown Alternate-side parking: In effect until March 28 (Passover). Image Credit...Andrew Seng for The New York Times Jenny Wu, 28, planned to have her wedding banquet next year at Jing Fong, the largest restaurant in Chinatown. For many, the dim sum palace was the prime spot to hold weddings, birthdays, graduations and reunions. But that is no longer possible: After 28 years in operation, the banquet hall closed down this past Sunday. The restaura...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Jing Fong, Manhattan’s largest Chinese restaurant, is dead. When I visited on March 2, the two grand escalators ascending to the third-floor banquet hall were frozen. The restaurant could once seat a th...

Restaurant Union Calls On Jing Fong Landlords To Keep Banquet Hall Open arrow Jing Fong banquet hall in pre-pandemic times Nathalie Cone / Flickr The impending closure of one of Chinatown’s largest and most popular restaurants is more than just a loss to the community, but a financial setback for the many employees who depend on their jobs there and a blow to the local economy, said a representative for the restaurant’s union. Last month, the owners of Jing Fong ba...

Lower East Side Links –Attempted murder charges have been filed against a suspect who allegedly stabbed a 36-year-old Asian man in the back in Chinatown. Prosecutors have decided not to charge the suspect with a hate crime. [ABC News] –There was a big rally in Foley square yesterday to make a strong statement against anti-Asian violence and racism. [Channel 7] –“American Dream Tarnished;” Jason Wang of Xi’an Famous Foods conveys what it’s like dealing with anti-Asian racism. [The ...

Robert Sietsema/Eater Jing Fong workers mobilize to protest the restaurant’s dining room closing Dim sum legend Jing Fong rocked the industry when it announced that its longstanding Chinatown location would be shutting down its cavernous dining room next week. As customers were lining up to squeeze in one last meal indoors at the institution after the news broke, unionized Jing Fong workers were mobilizing to protest. Bowery Boogie reports that the 318 Restaurant Workers Union has issued a st...

Try Harder! Review: Endearing, Alarming Doc on Senior-Year College-Application Hope and Heartbreak The agonies and ecstasies of a high-achieving majority Asian-American senior class during a cutthroat college application season. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 84 MIN Courtesy of Sundance Institute “You get used to feeling mediocre,” says one of the merely very bright students in a school full of what he considers “geniuses.” “Try Harder,”...

Debbie Lum spoke to Salon about the Lowell High School students trying to achieve the impossible in a broken system

First stopping traffic, then burying it. hardest hit, elizabethtown in central kentucky and outside of paducah. the government called out the national guard. >> what weve been doing is taking stranded motorists to warm care facilities where they can get any treatment. weve had a couple cases of folks that needed insulin. >> reporter: jonathan chu is part of a christian music tour. this is pictures from outside his bus. by morning, the only suggestion of a highway was the long line of stuck truck...