Grace Young: Most People Have No Idea How Much Chinatowns Are Hurting

There were many, many times when I was in Chinatown in the last month where it was just a ghost town. A lot of the people who work in Chinatown work in Chinatown seven days a week, 10-14 hour days. Nobody is afraid of working, but if there are no tourists, downtown workers, jury duty, university students and subway riders, they’re standing in an empty store or an empty restaurant. I just felt that they had no voice and they had no ability to get the word out that this was a crisis situation and we needed to show up. I really feel as though I have been in a very unique position, in that because I’m a known food writer and cookbook author, I have contacts in the media.

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