活動説明：疫情重創紐約市各行業，民選官員8月19日下午2時到訪華埠，了解商業業主的需求，在中華公所主席于金山及僑社領導的陪同下沿著勿街一路向Worth街方向拜訪華埠商家。(詳情刊雙十活動華人「遙遙的祝願」一文後。)

(圖) 2018年的唐人街車水馬龍。

紐約州及市多位民選官員觀察華商傾聽商戶民意

(News Chinatown報導) 疫情重創紐約市各行業，現經濟雖已重啓但一時難以恢復疫情前的繁榮，曾經車水馬龍的華埠商業區，現狀冷清並有很多商家表示生意難做。為支持華埠商業振興，紐約州及市多位民選官員於周三，8月19日下午二時到訪華埠，並觀察華埠商業情況，傾聽商戶民意，瞭解商業業主的需求。民選官員們從中華公所出發，在中華公所主席及僑社領導的陪同下沿著勿街一路向Worth街方向拜訪華埠商家。

Remark by President Justin Yu (CCBA)

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen：

Today the Chinatown community welcome Honorable Congress member Nydia M. Velazquez, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Senator John Liu, State Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, Council Member Mark Levine, Council member Antonio Revnoso, Ms. Jenny Low from Speaker Corey Johnson’s office, President Raymond Tsang from Hoy Sun Ning Yung Benevolent Association, Mr. Jun Zhang representative from Lin Sing Association, President Teddy Mui from Tai Look Merchants Association and Mr. Winston Chiu founder of Rethink Food NYC to visit and support Chinatown.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, 99% of the Chinatown stores and businesses was closed.  Many Chinese Americans have been unemployed and facing financial difficulties.  Although the City has started to re-open, many businesses are still remaining closed and some of them have decided to closepermanently.  Many families are still suffering from income and food.

Although Chinatown’s restaurants are reopening, many of them are still suffering from the shelter in place order and the prohibition of indoor dining due to social distancing.   Unlike other community, the sidewalks in Chinatown are relatively narrow for outdoor dining.  Chinatown is proposing a plan to expand the Open Streets program in our community to promote outdoor dining, like Little Italy. We are recommending the closure of some streets in Chinatown, ideally from 5pm Fridays to 10pm Sunday evenings, in order help the recovery of our small businesses and bring back visitors and jobs to Chinatown.

We are very exciting to announce that last week DOT has approved the closure of Bayard Street, from Mott to Mulberry, and two more streets on Pell and Doyers, to expand outdoor dining. CCBA will work hard to help more business in Chinatown area to bring back customers. And we hope all of you will support our plan.

Chinatown is now reopened.  We welcome everyone to visit us to enjoy delicious food, excellent professional services and shopping in our stores and businesses.  You will enjoy a great time here in New York City Chinatown. Thank you

(中文翻譯如下)

今天，唐人街社區歡迎國會議員Nydia M. Velazquez，曼哈頓自治市鎮主席Gale Brewer，州參議員Brian Kavanagh，參議員John Liu，州議會議員Yuh-Line Niou，市議員Mark Levine，市議員Antonio Revnoso，Jenny Low女士演講者科里·約翰遜辦公室的代表，霍伊·孫寧·永仁慈善協會的曾蔭權主席，林星協會的張俊先生，大觀商人協會的梅德成總統和紐約思想食品協會的創始人溫斯頓·丘先生來訪並支持唐人街。

在COVID-19大流行期間，唐人街99％的商店和企業都關門了，許多華裔美國人失業，面臨經濟困難，儘管紐約市已開始重新開放，但許多企業仍處於關閉狀態，其中一些企業決定永久關閉，許多家庭仍在遭受收入和食物的困擾。

儘管唐人街的餐館正在重新開放，但許多餐館仍然受到當地住房的限制以及由於社會距離而禁止室內用餐的痛苦，與其他社區不同，唐人街的人行道相對狹窄，適合戶外用餐，唐人街正在提出一項計劃，在我們的社區中擴展「開放街道」計劃，以推廣戶外用餐，例如「小意大利」，我們建議關閉唐人街的一些街道，最好是從星期五下午5點到星期天晚上10點，以幫助恢復我們的小企業，並把遊客和工作帶回唐人街。

我們非常高興地宣布，上週DOT批准了封閉從Mott到Mulberry的Bayard 街，以及Pell和Doyers 的另外兩條街道，以擴大戶外用餐的範圍，CCBA 將努力幫助唐人街地區的更多企業吸引回頭客，我們希望大家都支持我們的計劃。

唐人街現已重新開放，我們歡迎大家光臨我們，以在我們的商店和企業中享受美味的食物，出色的專業服務和購物，您將在紐約唐人街度過美好時光。

謝謝。