He’s pictured in the old location, which closed in March after it opened in 1972. Jing Fong’s third-generation owner Truman Lam had told Side Dish the restaurant wanted to reopen in a new location earlier this year it’s now reopening on Centre Street. Still, it’s too soon to give the all-clear signal, especially as the Omicron variant looms and there remains a lot of work to be done to rebuild from the carnage the virus inflicted on the neighborhood, which was especially hard-hit when tourists evaporated. The numbers have substantially improved.” “The tourists are coming back - especially domestically. “Things are better,” said Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership. And it’s part of a broader brightening of the picture for Chinatown. It will be a welcome sight for a place that was the hub of a community - with weddings, birthdays, tourist visits and especially get-togethers of the area’s elderly. But like the phoenix decorations brought from the old Elizabeth Street spot to hang on the walls of the new place, Jing Fong’s reopening underlines that after COVID lockdowns decimated Chinatown, its restaurants are starting to rise again. What does the new Jing Fong restaurant look like after its previous location - a high-ceilinged temple to dim sum with room for 800 diners - closed during the pandemic?įor starters, it’s a lot smaller: It will seat just 125. Late designer Lorraine Letendre’s Miami triplex sells for $3.4Mīillionaire couple Gary and Karen Winnick ask $4.45M for NYC pied-à-terre Soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović sells $2.3M W South Beach pad Lucie Arnaz once owned this Connecticut home - and now you can too Jordan could be the next star owner at this NYC tower
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