Inside the old Jing Fong Restaurant at 20 Elizabeth St. And, in addition, the US Travel Association predicts that domestic leisure travel will surpass pre-pandemic levels next year, although business and international travel will take longer to recover. The city has regained 75% of the population that left during the pandemic, according to data compiled by city comptroller Scott Stringer. Today, there are more than 350 eateries in Chinatown - although this number now includes bubble tea shops and bakeries that weren’t counted during the pandemic.
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Executive Dim Sum Chef Jin Ruan and Executive Chef Lai Kai Fung - the same leads in the kitchen - are gearing up to prepare the dishes for the new location at 202 Centre St., which is set to open for takeout “in the next few days.”Ī year into the pandemic, Chen told Side Dish that about one third of Chinatown’s 300 plus restaurants had permanently closed. Stefan Jeremiahīut the reopening of a neighborhood landmark, albeit in a smaller, single-floor location, is a good sign of the slow march back to normal. He’s pictured in the old location, which closed in March after it opened in 1972. Jing Fong’s third-generation owner Truman Lam had told Side Dish the restaurant wanted to reopen in a new location earlier this year it’s now reopening on Centre Street. Still, it’s too soon to give the all-clear signal, especially as the Omicron variant looms and there remains a lot of work to be done to rebuild from the carnage the virus inflicted on the neighborhood, which was especially hard-hit when tourists evaporated. The numbers have substantially improved.” “The tourists are coming back - especially domestically. “Things are better,” said Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership. And it’s part of a broader brightening of the picture for Chinatown. It will be a welcome sight for a place that was the hub of a community - with weddings, birthdays, tourist visits and especially get-togethers of the area’s elderly. But like the phoenix decorations brought from the old Elizabeth Street spot to hang on the walls of the new place, Jing Fong’s reopening underlines that after COVID lockdowns decimated Chinatown, its restaurants are starting to rise again. What does the new Jing Fong restaurant look like after its previous location - a high-ceilinged temple to dim sum with room for 800 diners - closed during the pandemic?įor starters, it’s a lot smaller: It will seat just 125. Soros ex Susan Weber finds buyer for NYC home 11 years after listing it for $50M Over-the-top 'Harry Potter' meets 'Game of Thrones' castle finds a buyer This $7.49M NYC townhouse overlooks a secret city garden
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We’ve been losing money every month since the pandemic started.
We paid the real estate taxes portion of the rent. All the news saying we didn’t pay any of the rent is absolutely not true. “We paid partial rent, the real estate taxes part of it. “We worked with the landlord,” said Claudia Leo, a spokeswoman for third-generation owner and manager Truman Lam. Jing Fong’s owner disputes the landlord’s no-rent claim. “It’s the only unionized restaurant in the neighborhood, so even if these workers are able to find other jobs during this pandemic, they will not have the same rights and protection they have now.” “Jing Fong brings in over 10,000 customers to Chinatown every week, so the loss of this dim sum hall is going to have a big economic impact on Chinatown as a whole,” Marte said. “There’s no financial reason to close if the landlord was willing to wait just a little longer for Jing Fong to be able to get back on its feet,” said Christopher Marte, who is running to represent the neighborhood on the City Council. (Morgan Chittum / New York Daily News)īut Jing Fong’s supporters said the landlord could be a little more patient. Former server John Chen, 60, attends a rally to reopen Jing Fong on Thursday afternoon in Chinatown.
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