Posted on 03/13/2022 5:07:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Little Italy merchants are screaming “Mi offendo!” after learning Gov. Kathy Hochul awarded a $20 million economic and tourism grant to their Chinatown neighbors, The Post has learned.
Civil leaders in Little Italy said they weren’t even asked to jointly apply for the state grant even though their businesses suffered alongside Chinatown’s during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After what our nation has experienced in the most recent past concerning issues of equity, who would believe that the State of New York would favor one ethnic Manhattan community, in this case Chinatown, to the detriment by exclusion and apart from its neighboring ethnic community, Little Italy?” Victor Papa, chairman of the Chinatown-Little Italy Historic District Improvement Association, wrote in a March 8 letter to Hochul.
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No funds for whitey.
Why is any gummint subsidizing a private business?
How about lowering taxes?
Move to Florida!
Little Italy doesn’t really exist any more. Real estate development wiped them off the map.
dems feel scared asians won’t vote for them after letting the blacks pummel them the last few years.....
China, China, China. Paying the masters.
It’s all about the kickbacks. I mean reinvestment /s
I belive most of Little Italy has been swallowed up by Chinatown. Lots fewer Italians down there and lots more Chinese.
In another 10 years, Chinatown is goimg to overrun what’s left of Little Italy. It’s down to about all of 2 blocks as it is. You can’t walk up Canal St. anymore without being accosted to buy handbags every 10 feet.
Why the government subsidy? It’s called libertarianism. You know, that ideology that says businesses should be able to buy and sell anything legal without interference. And if some businesses purchase politicians then they should receive recompense.
I guess they were white Italians.
Can’t have any Whitey Italians getting any grants. After all, they are guilty of the original sin of spawning Christopher Columbus, that evil man who brought germs here to America to kill off the indigenous population.
Hochul, china, democrat? nothing to see here folks, lets see her investments and her bank account deposits
Well yes but you are describing the ever-present corruption, the only way to deal with it is to keep government small.
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