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Friends of Portland Chinatown will host a Chinese New Year celebration at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Chinatown gate, Northwest Fourth Avenue and West Burnside Street.
In recent weeks at least one piece of masonry has fallen from the decorative gate, located at Northwest Fourth Avenue and Burnside Street downtown. One piece narrowly missed a resident of Right 2 ...
Thus, the gate designed by a Chinese American based on historical Chinese gates has a more authentic claim to being the icon of Chinatown. While the gate is less than 50 years old, it’s a marker ...
That day is approaching as members of the Historic Chinatown Gate Foundation prepare for the Feb. 9 unveiling of the 45-foot archway that straddles South King Street near Fifth Avenue South.
Feb. 9, 11:08 a.m. The distinctive 45-foot tall archway that welcomes you into Chinatown at S. King Street and 5th Avenue S. turned 2 on Tuesday. The gate was unveiled on Feb. 9, 2008, ...
Those bright blue, pink, gray and yellow flags popping up around Boston’s Chinatown in recent days — at the Chinatown Gate on Beach Street, at Quincy Upper School at 900 Washington St. and at ...
Exploring San Francisco's Chinatown allows you to step back in time, to the city's early days.Established in the mid-19th century, it's the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest ...
Gross, 32, who was adopted from China, moved to Chinatown last year, a sports fan who was dressed in an Eagles jacket on Sunday as she waited for a bus near the Chinatown Gate.
The event, organized by City Councilor Ed Flynn and several neighborhood organizations, was the first of four lion dance performances planned to be held in Chinatown on all Saturdays in June.
Its focal point is the Chinatown Gate, an elegant paifang arch capped with green tiles and flanked by marble lions that was donated to the city by Taiwan in 1982.
A block or so from the Chinatown Gate one recent morning, five Asian elders meditated in silence in a sidewalk park. They sat on the ground cross-legged, their heads bowed, hard in the shadows of ...