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[www.localmemphis.com]
The first mention of a Chinese business in the Bluff City came from a laundry ad in an old newspaper, from the 1880's to the 1970's there were 166 grocery stores.

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To send a message even if you fail, NYC Chinese-Americans and friends of the community need to spearhead a recall campaign against Eric Adams for betraying a campaign promise and he should be probed for corruption for making that decision reversal. Prisons should not be in a high density neighborhood full of children and should not be on prime real estate that better serves the needs of the community. There are lessons to be learned from SF Bay Area recall efforts against socialist democrats.

[www.theguardian.com]
The tower will replace a much shorter jail that’s been on the site since the 1980s. But construction is well behind schedule, partially due to years of resistance from a diverse coalition that includes everyone from prison abolitionists to local landlords to, at one point, Eric Adams, who pledged to oppose the new jail when campaigning for mayor. They argue it will be an eyesore that could harm some of New York’s most vulnerable immigrants, and that its multibillion-dollar price could be far better spent elsewhere.

Adams reversed course after taking office, and now the building crews have finally arrived. Today, lunchtime conversations at Pasteur Grill and Noodles are shattered by the crashing of demolition – the overture to a process that might well last a decade. “So I’ll just need to put up with this,” says Chung, “or retire early.”

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So the plan was to transfer the violence from Rikers Island jail and bring that violence to Chinatown so that released convicted criminals can feed into the local expanding homeless shelter networks (milking free grant money from federal tax dollars) that are also invading Chinatown like a red tide smothering an already delicate ecosystem?

[www.msn.com]
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio approved plans to demolish Rikers Island jail in 2017 because of violence there and replace it with four borough based jails, including the world’s tallest — in Chinatown.