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Jin Tao Wu survived Japan's invasion of China, the rise of the Communist Party and the massacres of the Cultural Revolution.
Now, the 93-year-old sits in a public housing apartment in Chelsea, confronting what he sees as the biggest crisis of his life.
Wu and his 90-year-old wife, Qiong Zhong, who has dementia, are among two dozen NYCHA households refusing to move out of their seniors-only building to make room for a $1.2 billion project that would tear down and rebuild the entire Chelsea complex.
The new buildings will eventually house everyone who currently lives there, and add another 2,500 market-rate apartments and 1,000 permanently affordable ones.
But the project requires seniors like Wu to move not once, but twice. And he’s not budging.
"I'm not going to move," he told THE CITY, speaking in Cantonese. "I'm 93. If you're going to move to a general [public] housing, it's not going to be good. It's not going to be healthy. It's not going to be safe. I feel I don't have that many years left."
In The Bronx, no Wakefield-bound 2 trains between 219 St. and Nereid Avenue from 10:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose before staff administered Narcan. Those were some of the damning findings outlined in the latest report issued by the city’s Board of Correction on deaths in custody at Rikers.
Hundreds of workers at the Fortune Society and the Osborne Association are seeking to unionize. The two organizations serve recently incarcerated people and heavily rely on city funding. More than a dozen City Council members signed a letter urging the nonprofits to allow workers to organize. In addition to better pay and benefits, workers at both nonprofits told THE CITY they are eager for training and mentorship opportunities.
Reporter’s Notebook
Nine Arrested at ICE Protest at Brooklyn Hospital
A tense, late-night standoff outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick persisted into early Sunday morning after ICE agents, who had brought an arrestee to the hospital, were confronted by a crowd of demonstrators.
Agents pepper-sprayed activists as they tried to enter the building, eyewitnesses told THE CITY, and the NYPD made several arrests.
At one point, an agent left the hospital speeding through activists trying to block the roadway. Further chaos erupted as ICE agents dragged a man in handcuffs at around 2:30 a.m. outside of the hospital, video from FreedomNewsTV shows.
Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who was outside the hospital, said she saw “direct coordination between ICE and the NYPD.”
An NYPD spokesperson said police arrested nine people over the course of the evening, but was not involved in immigration enforcement.
An unnamed spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said the agents were trying to arrest a Nigerian man who had overstayed a tourist visa and had prior arrests for assault and drug possession. The spokesperson said the man “attempted to punch and elbow” officers, who used the “minimum amount of force necessary” in return.
— Gwynne Hogan
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Monday, May 4: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s season of free outdoor workout classes with a view returns with Zumba from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Register here.
Monday, May 4: Dress up your pet and hit the red carpet at NYU Faculty Housing’s annual Pet Gala, taking place at NYU Silver Towers. Free, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Monday, May 4: Actor Lili Taylor celebrates the paperback release of her book of birding essays, “Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing,” at a Greenlight Bookstore launch event with birding author Christian Cooper. Free, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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