About YAD

Youth Against Displacement started in 2018. We are a group of the young and young at heart fighting the overdevelopment and displacement of Chinatown and Lower East Side. We organize at the picket line currently in front of the Museum of Chinese in America to re-open the original Jing Fong and hold the Museum accountable for the $35 million it received as part of the Borough-Based Jail Plan; we organize for the passing of the Chinatown Working Group Rezoning Plan; we advocate for candidates who support anti-displacement in Chinatown and the Lower East Side; we fight with tenants who have been evicted from their homes in the neighborhood by predatory landlords and slumlords.

The Jing Fong / Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Picket Line

Youth Against Displacement is one of many groups on the picket line in front of East Bank and now MOCA. Other groups include the 318 Restaurant Union and the broader Coalition to Protest Chinatown and LES. The picket line first started in March 2021 after Chinatown's biggest landlord and developer Jonathan Chu displaced the heart of Chinatown, the Jing Fong Banquet Hall. The picket moved in front of the Museum of Chinese in America (where Chu is the Co-Chair of the Board) after the Chinatown community found out this Museum received $35 million as part of the City's plan to build a mega-jail in Chinatown (on page 16 of the Jail Plan Points of Agreement)