Chefs and restaurant owners have joined local Chinatown residents to demand that the city abandon plans to build the world’s tallest jail in the heart of the neighborhood.
Chefs and restaurant owners have joined local Chinatown residents to demand that the city abandon plans to build the world’s tallest jail in the heart of the neighborhood — saying it threatens to become a “death knell” for local businesses, Side Dish has learned.
Indeed, Bo Ky and Jaya 888 – two eateries near the construction site where the Manhattan Detention Complex is being demolished to make way for the new mega-jail — have already closed. “We are at this point at risk of losing Chinatown thanks to reduced foot traffic and tourism, and dramatically less business at night,” said wok whisperer Grace Young, a James Beard award-winning Chinese American cookbook author who recently hosted a dinner at Chinatown’s Pot Luck Club to raise awareness of the issue.
“We are at this point at risk of losing Chinatown thanks to reduced foot traffic and tourism, and dramatically less business at night,” said Grace Young, a James Beard award-winning Chinese American cookbook author.The comeback also has been slow, he added, partly because of aThe 45-story, $2.3 billion “jailscraper” would be 350 feet high. Residents fear it would lead to an increased police presence and that other towers would follow.
“The city needs to completely rethink the size and scale of the jail. We don’t want a repeat of Rikers Island. We want it small and controllable,” said Jan Lee, co-founder of Neighbors United Below Canal.But the estimated $8.3 billion project is already significantly bigger in size and over budget. And building bigger jails, not smaller ones, defeats the purpose, activists say.
As a mayoral candidate, Eric Adams said he was against the Chinatown mega-jail but now he supports it.“We need to close Rikers Island which has long been a place of systemic injustice and abuse,” says Assemblywoman Grace Lee.Grace Lee, Assembly Member NY District 65, says Chinatown needs transparency from the city.
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