Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The Chinese department store in Manhattan, which opened in 1971, has been a welcome alternative to restaurant and supermarket jobs for immigrant workers. It will close in December because of a significant rent increase. Source: At Pearl River, Four Decades of Helping New Arrivals From Asia – The New York Times
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011 Time: 4PM to 8PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Free Admission For thousands of years, rivers – both East and West – have been used as a source of food and drinking, for energy, and for navigation. Culturally and politically, rivers have also … Read more
Date: Monday, May 23, 2011 Time: 5PM to 6PM Place: Flushing – Queens Library 4117 Main Street, Flushing, Queens Class presentation by Urban Studies 220 E4M3 and 760.1 E4M2, taught by Dr. Tarry Hum, at Queens College/CUNY. Flushing, Queens is a diverse immigrant neighborhood undergoing much development and dynamic change. The city recently approved TDC … Read more
Festival Schedule Date: January 21 & 28, 2005 Time: Friday, 6:00PM to 8:00PM Place: Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Corner of 34th Street, Manhattan Nomad: The River, is inspired by Yin Mei’s own search for spiritual meaning – a search which began in a childhood clouded by China’s Cultural Revolution, but … Read more