![]() ![]() “It’s not the sort of place where residents think: ‘Oh, I think I’ll take a walk here.’”īut all that could change thanks to an audacious plan to physically cover the expressway and reconnect the two severed parts of Chinatown. “It’s a pretty broad space to have to cross over.” Several times a week she crosses the sunken highway via one of six street-level lanes. “This is the busiest for Chinatown,” said Debbie Wei, who founded the grassroots activist group Asian Americans United. This freeway is known as the Vine Street Expressway. Yet landmarks like the Holy Redeemer church and the Crane community center are separated from others – like the famous dim sum spot Bai Wei or the Chinatown firehouse – by six lanes of busy traffic. It is one of the oldest and largest Chinatowns in the US. ![]()
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