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This FOX 5 NY special report looks at how the city government seemingly ignores the experience of Asian New Yorkers.

The number of multiracial Asian Americans is growing – and how the way they define themselves and talk about identity are also changing.

Helen Oh was walking down the sidewalk of the downtown 16th Street pedestrian mall in April when two young men approached from the other direction. The coronavirus pandemic had been spreading in the United States for a month, and Asian American community groups were warning of a disconcerting surge of hateful and racist language directed … Read more

Leading New York elected officials, members of the Asian American Federation, and a victim of a recent anti-Asian, hate-fueled assault took a stand with hundreds of New Yorkers on Saturday afternoon against bigotry in the Big Apple.

“The recent reports of increased violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) here and across the country have caused me to once again reflect on the alarming persistence of racism, and the important role that higher education and CUNY can play in addressing and dismantling the many representations that hate and bigotry … Read more

“We did nothing to provoke this woman,” said the Leonia High School sophomore, who said she and her friends were all wearing double face masks. “Yet based on our appearance, and quite possibly even based on the flags flying in our hands, we were treated as if we were a contagious disease.