Run for Chinatown

The vibe

Run for Chinatown grew directly out of the COVID devastation of Manhattan's Chinatown — founder Leland Yu, a cook who lost his job during the pandemic, ran a 12-hour solo fundraising challenge in 2020 and turned that single act into a weekly Monday night community movement. The runs meet at 69 Mulberry Street at 6:30pm and integrate guided history of the neighborhood — Chinese Exclusion Act, community resistance, local landmarks — so every run is also a cultural education. The group is explicitly all-paces and all-levels including walkers, and all starts and finishes happen together in Chinatown as a deliberate statement about community solidarity. Fundraising is structural, not incidental: $141,000+ raised and partnerships with Chinatown businesses are core to what the club does, not extras.

About

Run for Chinatown meets Mondays at 8am at Chinatown in Chinatown, Manhattan. Free to join, drop-in friendly, open to all paces.

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