Run Clubs in Chinatown
2 run clubs meeting in Chinatown, Manhattan.
NYC Dragons
A Manhattan-based running club listed in the NYCRUNS directory. Community-focused group serving the Chinatown and Lower Manhattan running community. All paces welcome.
Run for Chinatown
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.