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Jing Fong shutters as Chinatown faces long road back
Once-crowded neighborhood has seen 17 restaurants close New York / TRD Staff
After 28 years of serving customers, Jing Fong closed permanently on Sunday.
The 20,000 square foot Chinatown restaurant would typically serve 10,000 guests a week in its large banquet hall. Not only has the pandemic sent restaurants reeling but the devastation to Chinatown’s economy has been especially pronounced, the New York Times reported.
“An empty Jing Fong leaves a crater in the middle of Chinatown,” Andrew Rigie, the executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, told the newspaper.
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Jing Fong, Manhattan’s largest Chinese restaurant, is dead. When I visited on March 2, the two grand escalators ascending to the third-floor banquet hall were frozen. The restaurant could once seat a thousand people upon red carpet, beneath golden dragons and resplendent chandeliers. But last week only two of its six heaters were working, and next to the dining room’s entrance were just a handful of patrons eating out of takeout containers. After nearly three decades on Elizabeth Street, Jing Fong limped through its final days its dining room closing for good on March 7.
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