The workers will continue to picket the Chu family businesses five days a week, including the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) where Jonathan Chu is co-chairperson of the board of directors.” At a protest this past March, Chinatown activist Zishun Ning condemned the closing of Jing Fong.
“The former workers of the biggest dim sum hall in New York want to make clear that the fight continues to protect Chinatown and Lower Manhattan from greedy developers like the Chu family. “Jing Fong’s reopening at a smaller location will not fill the void that landlords Jonathan and Alex Chu carved into the heart of Chinatown when they evicted the restaurant earlier this year,” the statement said, in part. In a press release, the 318 Restaurant Workers Union blasted the news, charging that Jing Fong’s scaled-down reopening “is still a loss for Chinatown.” Takeout will open in the next few days, according to the New York Post.īut former workers and their supporters who have been continuously protesting Jing Fong’s closure will keep on, declaring “the fight is not over” and demanding that the original space be reopened once again as Jing Fong. The new place, at 202 Centre St., north of Hester Street, will seat just 125. The former restaurant space, which seated 800 people before, closed during the pandemic. 7, 9:30 p.m.: Jing Fong, the legendary Chinatown dim sum palace, is reopening - but at a much smaller size.
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