‘Zohran stop the jail!’ Anonymous banner calls on mayor to halt Chinatown jail construction
An anonymous banner was hung in Chinatown urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the construction of a new jail in the neighborhood.
A banner hung anonymously on the side of a Chinatown building on Thursday made a personal plea for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to step in and halt construction of the jail currently rising in the iconic neighborhood. The roughly one-story-tall sign, its message written in white paint on a black tarp, urged the mayor from the...
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