Not surprising how a couple of walkups could make 200 chinamen homeless.

in 2 years there will be a condo there

No doubt built by Chinese people!!

or another hotel, it's far enough from the Grand street station but not far enough from the natives which the new people are afraid of. I was surprised how many Chinese businesses are there when I went to google view. they crossed the SDR park line.

"Hotel" run by Mama San with her tweny girls

That's what happens when you just stay in Greenpoint. You have no idea what's going on in other neighborhoods. Chinatown and its surrounding streets are gentrifying very quickly. That's why residents and neighborhood activists were pushing hard for historic district status in order to preserve the older buildings and the generally low-rise feel of the area.

Chinatown and its surrounding streets are gentrifying very quickly.

This is ridiculous, you are not going to squeeze the Chinese out because they have $$$, money talks in NY BS walks.

BTW this is my old neighborhood, I know it like the back of my hand.

are you surprised that greenpoint said something racist

seriously

get me the 411

No, a real hotel. and no firecrackers, too.

there's 2 hotels almost done, the old Music Palace theatre and one on Mulberry across from Columbus park.

if you know of a hotel run by mama san, tell me. though one can sort of figure it out in the old days, when you see a brightly lit doorway with a security cam overhead.

the only brightly lit doorway in the block.

I remember when the only hotel in Chinatown was the Pacifica aka holiday inn. I'm glad it's doing well, of course, it's mostly europeans who stay there. it offends middle amurica.

Twenty five years ago this area was mostly Puerto Rican, fifty years ago Jewish. Today its Chinese, who will be next?

Immigrant hipsters.

immigrants

Hipsters from Kansas?

The fire travelled up an air shaft in the original building, and once it got to the top floor, it travelled through the cockloft (area between the roof and the ceiling). It want to the two buildings on the left of the original building.

nice, more room for lousy hotels.

it's also smoky i bet it makes him want to smoke some pole.

reminds me of last year's blaze which wiped out the buildings on east broadway, and which was suspiciously torn day within a matter of days. even more suspicious was that the building next to it was also deemed unfit to stand. no report was ever made of the source, which i would venture to guess was ARSON. maybe the "inspectors" in this case will do a better job. but they probably won't, because this is prime property which could be better off torn down just like the one on east broadway to build a new lux building. landlord wins with insurance money and doesn't have to rent out his place for pennies, inspectors win with some dirty money under the table after reporting their "inspection". the only losers are the "nobodies" who live there and are now homeless. business as usual.

Bingo!

Wow over 200 homeless? That's like 6 apartments worth.

I kid, I kid! Thankfully no one was seriously injured.

I went by there around 9am today. Still smokey and the whole neighborhood just reaked of burning. I wonder how it got so big?