Feb 28, 2013 · In this corner of Beijing, the traditional hutong has been overrun not by a large-scale development but by a very Brooklyn sensibility.

Jan 21, 2020 · It was touted as a gift from Beijing to Brooklyn: an ornate, 40-foot-tall “friendship” archway to welcome visitors to Sunset Park’s bustling Chinatown.

Jan 24, 2024 · While a number of Brooklyn’s Chinese-American community members have said they expected the archway would take off with the ascension of its two biggest boosters to City Hall in 2022, there’s been little progress in Adams’ two years as mayor.

Oct 27, 2017 · BROOKLYN – As part of City Hall in Your Borough, Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the City will pursue a new archway in the Chinatown neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Spanning Eighth Avenue between 60th and 61st Streets, the archway is a gift from Beijing’s Chaoyang District.

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Oct 27, 2017 · Celebrating the Chinese-American community in Sunset Park, the arch will have two inscriptions in its middle: “One Family over Four Seas” in Chinese and “Brooklyn — Beijing Chaoyang” in English.

Aug 28, 2018 · SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A Friendship Archway that comes as a gift from Beijing can be installed after the Brooklyn Borough President signs off on the agreement Tuesday.

After having just returned from a longer stay in the USA to Beijing in 1994 he problematized these new spatial and cultural perspectives. In the ground of his traditional courtyard house he dug out a three-meter deep hole.

Jan 21, 2020 · It was touted as a gift from Beijing to Brooklyn: an ornate, 40-foot-tall “friendship” archway to welcome visitors to Sunset Park’s bustling Chinatown.

Jun 22, 2016 · Over the last decade, Beijing’s dense, city-center residential alleys— hutong— have provided the backdrop for one journalistic cliché morphing into another.