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The Chinatown Stitch project, first announced in 2023, aimed to cap the Vine Street Expressway between 10th and 13th streets.
A project to build larger walkways in Philly's Chinatown had its funding rescinded by President Trump's "big beautiful bill," ...
The Vine Street Expressway cap — known as the Chinatown Stitch — is in existential peril after the Republican mega bill that passed earlier this month appears to have clawed back most of its federal ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More than $ 150 million in federal funds are being yanked from the Chinatown Stitch project, tearing a hole in plans to reconnect a community long divided by concrete. The loss ...
Hi, Philly. Yes, more random, heavy rains are possible this week. But one day might even be dry. Do you know how to park in the city and avoid fines from the Philadelphia Parking Authority? Prove it ...
Letters to the Editor Chinatown’s gentrification is not inevitable. Here’s how to stop it. Plus: Protecting Head Start, the D.C. Bar elections and other local letters.
A longtime vendor in Manhattan’s Chinatown is finding it harder to make a living as people shun his intricate crafts, haggle over cheap knickknacks and shift their spending online.
As plans to develop a new hotel in Chinatown, two longtime businesses were issued notices to vacate.
Philadelphia's $160 million “Chinatown Stitch” project, designed to heal the neighborhood divided decades ago by the Vine Street Expressway, now faces uncertainty as House Republicans propose ...
A new documentary explores SF Chinatown’s first nightclubs — and the sassy rebels who danced at them.
Many businesses from San Francisco's Chinatown are feeling the impact of the trade war as Donald Trump's presidency hits 100 days.
A transformational effort to reconnect Philadelphia's Chinatown may be in jeopardy after a Republican-backed federal bill, ...