• Monday Night Movies: From Spikes to Spindles (1976)

    Jefferson Market Library (NYPL) New York Public Library 425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States

    From Spikes to Spindles (1976; 46 minutes). Director: Christine Choy. Producer: Third World Newsreel. A portrait of lower Manhattan Chinatown in the mid-1970s. Sparked by the mobilization of Asian American New Yorkers against police violence following the NYPD's brutal assault against 27 year old Peter Yew in Chinatown, the film considers over a century of Chinese […]

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