“We take Chinatown for granted, thinking it will always be here, but the pandemic showed us how fragile Chinatown is” (viaEaterNY)
Think! Chinatown
Think! Chinatown’s director, Yin Kong, remarked that 2023 was the first Lunar New Year parade that looked lively and well-attended since COVID started. Last year, 2022, there had been the omicron wave. In 2021, the parade was called off. Lunar New Year 2020 was conspicuously low-key, thanks in part to the anti-Asian rhetoric from then-President Trump.
, on Grand Street. Like many local businesses, she says, it has not recovered to its normal opening hours from before the pandemic started, which is “money left on the table.”Scions of legacy businesses began leaning into Chinatown’s history, even as they modernized their businesses and appealed to a new generation of fans.
“In the 1980s, there’s only one Chinatown so every weekend we had to pay our pilgrimage there,” says Chen.
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