Tag: Chinatown
81 Bowery is one of New York’s last lodging houses. Chinese immigrants, most of them working in construction and restaurant service industry, live communally in 64-square-foot spaces on the fourth floor, partitioned by makeshift walls and roofed with wire cages. Photographer Annie Ling on 81 Bowery: “You’re the same age as my daughter… I have not […]
We loved the Mike Kelley retrospective at MoMA PS1 last year, and now that it’s moved to MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles, it appears that we’ve missed out on one dirty detail. This is Mike Kelley’s Chinatown Wishing Well. Carolina Miranda writes: It’s a lot to absorb. But while you’re at it, don’t forget to take a peek under and […]
If you’re confused about the health code status of those shiny roasted duck carcasses hanging in the windows of your favorite Chinatown joints in Manhattan, so is the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, according to a recent report in Open City. Ten years ago, the DOH deemed the ducks in violation because the […]
Earlier this spring, we told you New York state legislators were moving to ban the sale of shark fins, a process that often targets abandoned species, subjecting them to what the Humane Society calls “extreme cruelty.” Today, we can happily say that the state Assembly has unanimously voted to pass the ban, and that the […]
First they came for the large, sugary drinks, and I did not speak out as I am not a large, sugary drink. Then they came for the novelty lighters, and I did not speak out as I am not a novelty lighter. Then they came for the styrofoam, and I did not speak out as […]
