THINK!CHINATOWN on Instagram: "📣 URGENT CALL FOR ACTION! ✉️ [Tuesday, June 10] Deadline to submit a letter to CB3 - link in bio for template! 📑 [Tuesday, June 10, 6:30PM] Attend the CB3 Transport meeting 45 Rivington St- details: https://www.nyc.gov/site/manhattancb3/calendar/calendar.page It’s come to our attention that there’s a new Full Closure Open Streets application submitted by Neighbors on Forsyth and Time Cafe LLC (dba TIME AGAIN), a bar located at 105 Canal. The application is for Forsyth Street from Canal to Hester Streets everyday from 5-11pm starting July 1 to December 1, 2025. TIME AGAIN bar is directly adjacent to Sara D. Roosevelt (SDR) Park and Pace High School, bringing up strong concerns about the application for a bar-ran Open Streets permit. With limited public space available in Chinatown, SDR Park is a well-used space for community members from day to night with regular gatherings by elders dancing, walking around the race track, young people playing games, and more. Because intergenerational living in small tenement units is very common in Chinatown, public “third spaces” are essential to the community. We’re greatly distressed by the prospect of a bar that operates from 5pm-2am on weekdays and 2pm-2am on weekends taking over the parking space of teachers and staff of Pace High School (and/or other community members) for late night drinking and partying. As a community group that produces cultural programs for public space activations, Think!Chinatown applauds the Open Streets program’s mission to transform “streets to public space open to all.” However, we warn that a permit to the bar TIME AGAIN, which has shown no interest in serving our community, will actually turn outdoor spaces into places of exclusion and negatively impact existing vibrant open spaces -- antithetical to Open Streets' mission. While the Open Streets program intends to transform “streets to public space open to all”, the aggressive privatization of public space and related disruptive behaviors have given the Chinatown community good reason to fear accelerating gentrification and displacement of longtime businesses and working class, immigrant families."

1,063 likes, 69 comments - thinkchinatown on June 6, 2025: "📣 URGENT CALL FOR ACTION! ✉️ [Tuesday, June 10] Deadline to submit a letter to CB3 - link in bio for template! 📑 [Tuesday, June 10, 6:30PM] Attend the CB3 Transport meeting 45 Rivington St- details: https://www.nyc.gov/site/manhattancb3/calendar/calendar.page It’s come to our attention that there’s a new Full Closure Open Streets application submitted by Neighbors on Forsyth and Time Cafe LLC (dba TIME AGAIN), a bar located at 105 Canal. The application is for Forsyth Street from Canal to Hester Streets everyday from 5-11pm starting July 1 to December 1, 2025. TIME AGAIN bar is directly adjacent to Sara D. Roosevelt (SDR) Park and Pace High School, bringing up strong concerns about the application for a bar-ran Open Streets permit. With limited public space available in Chinatown, SDR Park is a well-used space for community members from day to night with regular gatherings by elders dancing, walking around the race track, young people playing games, and more. Because intergenerational living in small tenement units is very common in Chinatown, public “third spaces” are essential to the community. We’re greatly distressed by the prospect of a bar that operates from 5pm-2am on weekdays and 2pm-2am on weekends taking over the parking space of teachers and staff of Pace High School (and/or other community members) for late night drinking and partying. As a community group that produces cultural programs for public space activations, Think!Chinatown applauds the Open Streets program’s mission to transform “streets to public space open to all.” However, we warn that a permit to the bar TIME AGAIN, which has shown no interest in serving our community, will actually turn outdoor spaces into places of exclusion and negatively impact existing vibrant open spaces -- antithetical to Open Streets' mission. While the Open Streets program intends to transform “streets to public space open to all”, the aggressive privatization of public space and related disruptive behaviors have given the Chinatown community good reason to fear accelerating gentrification and displacement of longtime businesses and working class, immigrant families.".