YOUTH AGAINST DISPLACEMENT

  • Current Fights
    • face the beast
    • The Jing Fong / Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Picket Line
    • Stop the Luxury Megatowers in the Lower East SideA luxury developer called Extell is trying to build 4 luxury mega-towers in Two Bridges, a neighborhood next to Chinatown and the Lower East Side. If built, these towers will drive up the rent and property taxes and displace people in Chinatown and LES. In 2019, Youth Against Displacement, Lower East Side Organized Neighbors (LESON) and others sued the City for their illegal approval of four luxury towers in Two Bridges and we won the lawsuit to stop the towers. But in 2021, the City and developers filed an appeal that overturned this victory. If these mega-towers are built, they will only worsen the skyrocketing rents and ongoing displacement of working people of color in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. We are filing a second lawsuit to stop these towers for good. We are suing to defend the environmental rights of thousands of people in Two Bridges, protecting our right to clean air, light, and water, and ensuring that the low-income buildings in the area don’t have their structural integrity compromised by these dangerous new developments. Our community is not for sale!
    • CWG Rezoning Plan
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Chinatown Hunger Strike: The Crisis of 83-85 Bowery, Urban Democracy Lab, NYU, 2018

Will luxury towers edge out the last of the working-class Chinese in New York’s iconic Chinatown?, VOX, 2019

Protesters Chant “Boycott MOCA” at Museum of Chinese in America Reopening, Hyperallergic, 2021
Protesters Rally to Keep NYC Chinatown’s Iconic Jing Fong Open, Food & Wine, 2021
Protestors gather at the reopening of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, The Art Newspaper, 2021
As Museum Of Chinese In America Reopens Doors, Protesters Say Chinatown Deserves Better, Gothamist, 2021
In Chinatown, marching against displacement and healthcare workers’ 24-hour workday, The Village Sun, 2021
Chinatown activists blast MOCA over Jing Fong closure, ‘tacit support’ of megajail, The Village Sun, 2021
Eddie Huang calls out area landlord for ‘shielding’ NYC mayor’s plan to build 29-level jail in Chinatown, Yahoo! News, 2021
The Protests at the Museum of Chinese in America, Curbed / New York Magazine, 2021
Rikers Jail Replacement Plan Pits Chinatown Against New York City, Bloomberg CityLab, 2022
Demonstrators boycott Chinatown museum to protest new mega jail, Washington Square News, 2022
Nancy Yao Will Not Be Missed, HyperAllergic, 2023
The New Yorkers Fighting to protect Chinatown, i-D Magazine (VICE), 2023

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