
In a new interview, mayoral candidate Andrew Yang told the Post everything that NYC restaurant and bar owners want to hear right now: He supports dropping the restaurant and bar curfew, eliminating the food-with-drink rule, and wants to make takeout cocktails permanent. It is unclear whether any of Jing Fong’s unionized workers - who gathered together and protested publicly after news broke of the dining room shutdown - will be offered jobs at the new restaurant. Jing Fong - which also operates a second location on the Upper West Side - continued to offer outdoor dining, takeout, and delivery from the Chinatown restaurant after the dining room shut down, but those operations will stop at the end of May.
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The struggling Chinatown stalwart announced in March that it was closing its iconic dining room after being unable to work out a rent deal with the building’s landlords following a crushing year of plummeting sales due to the pandemic, plus ongoing anti-Asian rhetoric and xenophobic responses to the virus.

Eater New York has reached out to Leo for more details. The address of the new outpost wasn’t disclosed in the report. In late June, Jing Fong plans to reopen at a smaller, 125-seat location. Jing Fong plans to reopen soon in a new locationĮight hundred-seat dim sum destination Jing Fong will permanently clear out of its longstanding Elizabeth Street home on May 31, but the Chinatown restaurant won’t be totally dark for long, marketing director Claudia Leo tells the New York Post.
