Cracking Chinatown’s fortune cookie

From the April issue: Chinatown’s crooked streets, packed with shops selling lucky ceramic cats, live fish and embroidered slippers jammed up against restaurants catering to tourists and locals, have largely resisted gentrification. But that’s changing. While developers face multiple obstacles to building in the area, from height restrictions to owners reluctant to sell, a number of new condominium buildings have gone up in the past few years on the area’s most bustling streets, all serving slightly different needs. more By Vanessa Weiman