Chinatowns are struggling to survive amid anti-Asian violence and covid closures

Indeed, New York’s Chinatown zip code, which it now shares with trendy SoHo and Tribeca, has created real problems for Asian-American business owners: the 10013 zip code is considered the zone high-income city, prevents struggling restaurants from qualifying for economic goals Injury Disaster Loans through the Small Business Administration, while other pandemic relief programs seem to benefit national firms. Young points to a Million Dollar Paycheck Protection Program loan received by the Asian themed restaurant chain PF Chang’s“Their sales doubled. Meanwhile, Chinatown’s mainstay restaurants for decades – Hop Shing, 47, Hoy Wong, had been there for 42 years – had to close again. These are old Cantonese restaurants, you will never repeat that way of cooking again. “