Chinatown’s Nightlife Struggles
October 5, 2011
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NEW YORK — Chinatown bar owners are skeptical about the Business Improvement District’s expected boost to tourism given the area’s sedate nightlife. With over 200 Chinese restaurants, street markets and cultural novelty stores, Canal Street has always been Chinatown’s anchor
Chinatown Street Performers Help Preserve the Art of Cantonese Opera
October 2, 2011
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NEW YORK — Amateur street singers continue to preserve the art of Cantonese Opera with their annual performance for the elderly in Chinatown. It’s 9:30 a.m. and Si-Lian Ling, 59, is backstage piling make-up on her face. She and nine
