A seemingly endless cycle of violence has kept homelessness top of mind in Lower Manhattan, with civic and business leaders, residents and activists debating personal safety for the sheltered and unsheltered alike.
Chinatown-area community and civic leaders, residents and others protest anti-Asian violence and the siting of new facilities for the homeless in their community, March 1 at Sara D. Roosevelt Park.Chinatown-area community and civic leaders, residents and others protest anti-Asian violence and the siting of new facilities for the homeless in their community, March 1 at Sara D. Roosevelt Park.
The discord was on full display one evening in late February as members of Manhattan Community Board 2’s Human Services subcommittee convened to discuss a single agenda item: a proposed homeless facility on Grand Street, a block from Sara D. Roosevelt park in Chinatown, on the eastern fringe of the Lower Manhattan district.
But just weeks later, another spate of violence touched the neighborhood. Police in Washington, D.C., and New York said five homeless men living on the street were shot, allegedly by the same assailant, two of them fatally. Two of the shootings occurred in Manhattan Community District 2, including a fatal attack March 12th on Lafayette Street – just blocks from the site of the Grand Street facility opposed by neighborhood residents.
According to city data, there are other communities with more shelters, but Manhattan Community District 3, wherein the bulk of sprawling Chinatown is situated, is among the city leaders for shelters. Manhattan Community District 2 has none, according to the data. There are also hand-written messages, scrawled on little white chits of paper. One of them reads, “Hi Christina, I am so sorry life was taken from you so hatefully. Sending blessings to your soul.”
Per the census, as thousands of Asian residents have left Chinatown, the community has become more racially diverse, with many new residents drawn to gleaming new apartment buildings. The result is not only a Chinatown that is less Chinese, but one experiencing economic polarization. The pandemic has only added to the recent strain, according to neighborhood leaders.
“Asian American small businesses made up 20% of New York City’s businesses before the pandemic and were the fastest-growing segment of small businesses in our city,” the needs statement reads. “However, they were devastated by the COVID crisis, with over half the owners reporting losses of 75% or more in revenue in 2020.”said in a report, “Asian American unemployment soared to 25.6% by May 2020, the largest increase among all major racial groups” in the city.
As Manhattan Community Board 3 noted in its Needs Assessment, “Many people within our community live on the edge of homelessness and economic survival.
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