| At Chinatown
Night Market Skepticism at NYC
Mayor Adams Arch As Inner City
Press FOILs
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
NYC,
Feb 9 – Amid the beauties and
betrayals of Manhattan
Chinatown, on July 26 there
was music and food, paper
cutting and sugar painting in
Forsyth Plaza. Inner City
Press video here.
There was
also skepticism expressed
about the City's proposed
Chinatown Connections project
with its stated redesign of
Kimlau Square and creation of
a “Chinatown Welcome Gateway”
- that is, an arch.
Back on February
9 there was a scheduling
announcement: "9 a.m. –
New York City Mayor Eric Adams
makes a public space-related
announcement, related to
Kimlau Square."
Inner City Press went to cover
the event, which consisted of
speeches not only by elected
officials including
Congressman Dan Goldman and
Manhattan Borough President
Mark Levine (who joked he
would made his introduction as
an avenger into a memo) but
also by a few local activists
and planners.
Mayor
Adams arrived late in the
program, spoke and then took
questions. Inner City Press
asked him about community
opposition to the Chinatown
high-rise jail project on
Baxter Street, and to a
shelter set to be in at 91
East Broadway. How did
listening to the community
apply to those?
The jail, Mayor
Adams blamed on the City
Council. (This heartened back
to finger pointing all the way
back in the Board of Estimate,
about the jail site, in 1984).
He did not answer on the
shelter - and now, delay on
Inner City Press' Freedom of
Information Law request
about plans at 320 Pearl
Street.
Inner City Press
will continue to report on
this
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