Residents Fear New Luxury Tower Will Destroy Chinatown & LES: Gothamist

Residents Fear New Luxury Tower Will Destroy Chinatown & LES: Gothamist

The day's most popular stories from Gothamist every evening in your inbox from our newsletter. Istaverse Residents Fear New Luxury Tower Will Destroy Chinatown & LES by Steven Wishnia in News on Oct 2, 2015 10:05 am A rendering of 250 South Street, by City Realty ( via Curbed ) Protesting the construction of a 72-story luxury tower on the site that was once the neighborhood's main supermarket, about 400 people, from elementary-school-age to elderly, marched in Chinatown near the base of the Manhattan Bridge last Friday. "Vamos a coger la calle" [let's take the street], someone called out, and the crowd, hemmed in by police RMPs and SUVs, moved into the bus lane on East Broadway, heading toward City Hall. "Bill de Blasio, you promised to end the tale of two cities," David Tieu of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side told the crowd as they assembled by the construction pit's green wooden fence.

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