Chinatown and LES Residents Will March to City Hall Over Rezoning Plan
(DNAINFO) — Community activists and leaders will march to City Hall next month in an attempt to get the city to adopt a rezoning plan designed to protect affordable housing in the Lower East Side and Chinatown, they announced Thursday morning.
Holding handwritten signs in English, Spanish and Chinese, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side announced the Sept. 25 march, which will depart from 227 Cherry St. at 4 p.m., and expressed their frustration with the Department of City Planning’s dismissal of the Chinatown Working Group rezoning plan, which they called “racist.”
“Is it too much to ask that our community be protected?” said David Tieu from the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, one of the 15 organizations that make up the coalition, which also included District Leaders Jenifer Rajkumarand Pedro Cardi.