Curbed New York - Scan the Lower East Side waterfront and the first thing you’re likely to spot is a 72-story skyscraper known as One Manhattan Square jutting high above the neighborhood.
It may appear conspicuously misplaced among the area’s low-slung apartment buildings and public housing complex...
Politico - Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a five-figure digital ad buy targeting an unlikely voting demographic for Republicans: Indian Americans.
It’s likely the first time a Republican presidential candidate has spent a large amount of money on ads tailored for Indian American voters, accor...
New York Daily News - The L in LES doesn’t stand for luxury. A state judge barred a developer from building four high-rise towers that had been set to offer hundreds of pricey apartments.
. . .
“Today is a major victory for our clients, neighborhood activists and Two Bridges residents,” said Ken Kim...
New York City…Today, a New York Supreme Court justice ruled that the developers’ plans for four high-rise towers in Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Lower East Side violate the New York City Zoning Resolution and nullified the approvals needed for the proposed projects.
The case, Lower East Side Organ...
My Filipino American father was a hotel and culinary workers union member. He always voted, even if just for shop steward. And if he were alive today, I know how he would have voted.
Bernie Sanders. No question.
He’d consider Sanders a youngster. And they’d talk about income inequality and their h...
New York Law Journal - More than 500 people attended the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Lunar New Year Gala held at Pier Sixty in Chelsea Piers on Feb. 6. William Lee, second from left, partner at WilmerHale, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, second from right, author of the Pulitzer ...
It was front-runner Bernie Sanders and a slashing, clashing Elizabeth Warren who starred at Wednesday’s Nevada Democratic Debate.
I was actually hoping someone would have mentioned the coronavirus, a/k/a COVID-19 problem, as it spreads around the world and to America. Asian Americans would have bee...
NBC News - A social media post spread through the Barnard College and Columbia University campuses on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, quickly garnering hundreds of comments and shares earlier this month.
In it, a Chinese student at Barnard who had self-quarantined herself as a precaution against the c...
NBC News - Immigration policy and data disaggregation were among the topics that Democratic presidential candidates were challenged on during a historic Twitter town hall focused on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues Thursday. . . .
An informal survey of 500 voters across Virginia, Texas an...
For over 20 years, I’ve been a voice in the ethnic media clamoring about the lunacy of Iowa and New Hampshire as the gatekeepers in any national presidential campaign.
It was seldom mentioned it in the mainstream media. But in 2020, the demographics of our country are so painfully obvious that not ...
Once again, the Oscars had no host. But it sure had a “Parasite.”
The South Korean film was the first-non-English-language movie to win Best Picture. But by also winning the Best International Film honor, it made a mockery of all the divides and categories that keep us separated and apart.
What be...
I’m wondering what people are thinking in, say, the Philippines, or China–or anyplace where democracy is either non-existent or less than perfect. Are they envious of us here when they see examples of American democracy break down in front of their eyes?
On Monday, the quaint exercise in democracy ...
New Rule Threatens Family-Sponsored Permanent Resident Status for Asian American Families Who Have Used Certain Essential Benefits
New York City…After the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted the nationwide stay on implementation of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s final publi...
In the past, whenever I referred to Ferdinand Marcos, the former Philippines dictator, it used to be automatic. Someone would always say, “Shoes.”
That would be a reference to his wife, Imelda, who was known to have a collection of around 3,000 shoes. She also spent a lot of time in New York City, ...
The irony of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on the eve of the start of an historic impeachment trial in the Senate, should remind you of the precariousness of our civil rights in America.
The man who should be removed from office, otherwise known as “Occupant 45,” is perhaps the biggest threat t...
I admit on Tuesday I actually missed Andrew Yang.
That Iowa Democratic debate the other night was so frustrating if the only moment that got people excited and gained status as a “moment” was whether Bernie Sanders really said that a woman can’t win in 2020.
Sanders flatly denied saying it, despit...
If you weren’t concerned about the world’s instability over the weekend, I don’t blame you.
Asian Americans and people of color in the U.S have more to fear than the retribution of Iran.
We need to fear the retribution from within our great nation–from people like Peggy Noonan, who is cheering on ...
The holiday lull is over when we go from “Jingle Bells” to “Jingo Bells.”
Donald Trump sure knows disruptive dissonance.
The impeached president is in Mar-a-Lago with his chums, playing the world, essentially by remote control with his tweets. And meanwhile, his military kills the Iranian General ...
If you read the blog posts here on AALDEF, then you have the unofficial history of the last ten years of Asian America through my amok lens.
Stuff happened. We had opinions. We weren’t silent.
When I started writing for AALDEF in 2010, I had already been writing my Amok column once a week on Asian...
On December 27, 2019, AALDEF submitted a comment opposing the fee schedule proposed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which would increase fees for adjustment of status, asylum, DACA renewals, and naturalization and also eliminate fee waivers. These proposed changes would adverse...
