Daily News | He’s been documenting Chinatown for two decades. Here is what he’s seen.
, shutting down each Chinatown business so everyone could march to City Hall in matching T-shirts, making their opposition to the stadium loud and clear.
“They had to know about the baseball stadium in the early 2000s, they had to know about the casino fights,” Atienza said, referring to plans 15 years ago to put a casino in what was then the Gallery indoor mall. “I found it ridiculous. It’s a repeat — nothing has been learned.” Atienza called the organizers he knew, picked up his camera, and went back to the neighborhood to document a fight filled with déjà-vu.
Atienza is a Filipino American whose parents immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. While he grew up visiting his home country, he still received comments from peers calling him a “banana” in college — yellow on the outside, white on the inside — meaning that he may look Asian, but he’s not culturally Asian.
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