Comments on: Priced Out of New York’s Chinatown http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/ Blogging as I trek to Chinese communities on six continents Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Video4net http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/#comment-639 Video4net Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:57:59 +0000 http://chinatownstories.com/blog/?p=545#comment-639 Thanks for using one of my photo images and credit it correctly :-) Pete @ Video4net Thanks for using one of my photo images and credit it correctly :-)
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]]> By: Michelle http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/#comment-604 Michelle Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:04:39 +0000 http://chinatownstories.com/blog/?p=545#comment-604 Hi Katie! I agree -- it's too easy to just to sit back as landlords hike up prices and working class tenants get pushed into poorer living situations. Meanwhile, Chinatown's becoming less of a tourist attraction. What will become of Chinatown without a place for its original, vibrant community? I just checked out fivespicealley.com -- great neighborhood blog! I read your post on sun umbrellas, and I have to confess that I started using them in Hong Kong; the sun was so strong sometimes it actually hurt my skin! I haven't quite had the courage to break one out in NY, but yesterday, walking around Brooklyn apartment-hunting in the heat, I needed the protection from the sun :) We should definitely chat. I'd love to hear about how your family got started in the U.S. four generations ago. Hi Katie!

I agree — it’s too easy to just to sit back as landlords hike up prices and working class tenants get pushed into poorer living situations. Meanwhile, Chinatown’s becoming less of a tourist attraction. What will become of Chinatown without a place for its original, vibrant community?

I just checked out fivespicealley.com — great neighborhood blog! I read your post on sun umbrellas, and I have to confess that I started using them in Hong Kong; the sun was so strong sometimes it actually hurt my skin! I haven’t quite had the courage to break one out in NY, but yesterday, walking around Brooklyn apartment-hunting in the heat, I needed the protection from the sun :)

We should definitely chat. I’d love to hear about how your family got started in the U.S. four generations ago.

]]> By: Katie http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/#comment-601 Katie Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:17:40 +0000 http://chinatownstories.com/blog/?p=545#comment-601 There are definitely a lot of housing issues in this area. I think part of the problem is a lack of understanding or recognition by city officials of what goes on in the neighborhood; either that or they simply turn a blind eye to the myriad violations and ways in which hard working immigrants are stuck living in quite perilous living conditions. You have a fascinating blog, though! I'd love to chat some time. I'm a Chinatown resident, transplanted from SoCal, and a fourth generation Chinese American (half). There are definitely a lot of housing issues in this area. I think part of the problem is a lack of understanding or recognition by city officials of what goes on in the neighborhood; either that or they simply turn a blind eye to the myriad violations and ways in which hard working immigrants are stuck living in quite perilous living conditions.

You have a fascinating blog, though! I’d love to chat some time. I’m a Chinatown resident, transplanted from SoCal, and a fourth generation Chinese American (half).

]]> By: anonymous http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/#comment-345 anonymous Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:24:31 +0000 http://chinatownstories.com/blog/?p=545#comment-345 If you think Manhattan's Chinatown has a lot of Fujianese, this is nothing compared to Brooklyn's Chinatown. Most of the new arriving Fujianese to New York City are now going out to the other boroughs and more than half of those are going to Brooklyn's Chinatown and the Fujianese are increasing more quickly in Brooklyn's Chinatown than in Manhattan's Chinatown. The Fujianese influx are now replacing the Cantonese more significantly in Brooklyn's Chinatown than Manhattan's Chinatown. Despite the large Fujianese population in Manhattan's Chinatown, the Cantonese population still remains large and they still have their Cantonese community in the western portion of Chinatown where they go to do their business and shop, but Brooklyn's Chinatown is a different story. The Cantonese population in Brooklyn's Chinatown has pretty much almost disappeared and the Cantonese Community doesn't even exist anymore. Brooklyn's Chinatown is quickly becoming like East Broadway If you think Manhattan’s Chinatown has a lot of Fujianese, this is nothing compared to Brooklyn’s Chinatown. Most of the new arriving Fujianese to New York City are now going out to the other boroughs and more than half of those are going to Brooklyn’s Chinatown and the Fujianese are increasing more quickly in Brooklyn’s Chinatown than in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The Fujianese influx are now replacing the Cantonese more significantly in Brooklyn’s Chinatown than Manhattan’s Chinatown. Despite the large Fujianese population in Manhattan’s Chinatown, the Cantonese population still remains large and they still have their Cantonese community in the western portion of Chinatown where they go to do their business and shop, but Brooklyn’s Chinatown is a different story. The Cantonese population in Brooklyn’s Chinatown has pretty much almost disappeared and the Cantonese Community doesn’t even exist anymore. Brooklyn’s Chinatown is quickly becoming like East Broadway

]]> By: Michelle http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/#comment-244 Michelle Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:28:11 +0000 http://chinatownstories.com/blog/?p=545#comment-244 That's when restaurants are closed -- and workers get the day off. That’s when restaurants are closed — and workers get the day off.

]]> By: julia http://www.chinatownstories.com/priced-out-of-ny-chinatown/#comment-237 julia Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:28:23 +0000 http://chinatownstories.com/blog/?p=545#comment-237 why mondays and tuesdays? why mondays and tuesdays?

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