The Committee of Community Board 3 (Chinatown – Lower East Side) met last night at the Henry Street Settlement to continue the planning process of the Seward Park project. Neil Kitteredge, an architecture & planning partner at Beyer Blinder Belle and hired by the City, led the discussion with preliminary plans and new building models. [...]
Photo: Alex Peng By Alex Peng Doyers has always been a hot spot for filmmakers. On this sunny afternoon, two models are spotted in action.
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and the Organization of Chinese-Americans (OCA) NY-chapter presented a screening of The Vincent Who? documentary at MOCA last Friday. The venue was almost reached at full capacity with many generations of Chinese-Americans, young and old, including a father who brought his two teenage children. “I grew up in [...]
I remember when I first read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck in my high school English class. I drew many similarities between the book’s heroine, O-Lan, and my great-grandmother. My grandfather often told me stories about our family’s struggles and survival back in the old country. Ah-bok, great-grandma, was always my favorite character [...]
by Angela Chen Men have it a bit harder in China and Taiwan, my mother says, because not only do they celebrate the American Valentine’s Day on February 14th, they have to redo the romance all over come July 7th, the lunar Valentine’s Day. The story behind lunar Valentine’s Day could make for a full [...]
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