Chinatown

New York City firefighters gained control of a massive fire in a mixed commercial and residential building in Chinatown a few hours after it broke out early Thursday morning.  The flames began spreading just after midnight at a building on Grand Street near Allen, according to fire officials. There were over 130 firefighters at the scene, trying to stop the…

New York City firefighters gained control of a massive fire in a mixed commercial and residential building in Chinatown a few hours after it broke out early Thursday morning.

Red Circle Ice Cream in Houston, Texas, was known for its bubble waffles and churros before it became the subject of coronavirus-related rumors. Owner Nickey Ngo turned to social media to discuss the fear that the Asian American community felt at the onset of the pandemic due to rumors circulating in Chinatown.

As the city says there has been a big spike in anti-Asian harassment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a group in Chinatown has banded together to fight back — peacefully. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

Carbon monoxide gas from a closed down restaurant in Chinatown may be responsible for sending five people to the hospital on Sunday night. First responders say they were called to a building along Mulberry Street around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear where the patients were located in the building but emergency personnel transported them to Weill...

Five people were transported to the hospital late Sunday after FDNY responded to a building on Mulberry Street.

While they might not always hit the right notes (with more than a few unpleasant noises coming from the instruments), students started learning violin in third grade, as educators hope it’s a skill they will take with them for life. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.

Fear of the Wuhan coronavirus is driving down business for local eateries in Queens, where some restaurants say business has been cut in half or more since the outbreak began

While no cases of the illness have been confirmed in the tri-state, Chinese restaurants in Flushing have seen their bottom line take a hit because of fears of the illness. Mayor de Blasio and other politicians are now trying to ease those fears. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

Signs of support for the Chinese city at the center of a global virus outbreak marked floats at the Lunar New Year parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Sunday.

Video shows the woman initially running after a man, who then turned back and started attacking her, while allegedly calling her “diseased.” NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A volunteer team of conservators is working to salvage some of the 85,000 artifacts feared lost in a fire in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown

The attackers hit and kick the woman, with the person who posted the video saying one of the attackers called the victim a “diseased b—h”

Some 85,000 artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese migration to the United States may have been lost in a fire that struck a building in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a museum official said Friday. The president of the Museum of Chinese in America told The New York Times that most of the thousands of historic and artistic items...

A driver in a Department of Sanitation vehicle fatally struck a 90-year-old man in Manhattan early Saturday morning, officials said. Police found the man lying on Canal Street, near Elizabeth Street in Chinatown, with trauma to his body around 6:30 a.m., the NYPD said. The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police….

The flames consumed a community center inside a century-old building on Mulberry Street, and a Chinese American museum located there doesn’t know how many of its items will be salvageable. NBC New York’s Ken Buffa reports.

Nearly a dozen people were hurt, most of them firefighters with minor injuries, after raging flames broke out at a historic building in Chinatown that has been home to a senior center and other nonprofits for decades. Flames could be seen shooting out of the fourth and fifth floor windows of the New York City-owned building at 70 Mulberry St….

Hours after a massive fire broke out at a historic building in Chinatown, firefighters are still working to put out hotspots. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Video from Neighbors United Below Canal shows residents watching as firefighter work to put out raging flames at 70 Mulberry St. Thursday night.