Chinatown Block Party 夏日傾情
2026 Dates: May 31 & Aug 30, 4-8pm
Chinatown Block Party 夏日傾情 is a neighborhood block party for the whole family at the historic newsstand at Mott & Mosco Streets. Pulling from the ever-growing archive of the Chinatown Records project, YiuYiu 瑶瑶 shares some of her favorite Chinatown records inherited from her family and neighbors. All along the way, YiuYiu 瑶瑶 invites guest DJ’s and artists to celebrate the music, culture, and histories that connect communities, across generations and borders.
💃 UPCOMING BLOCK PARTIES 🕺
Photo by Helen Feng
2026 Block Party Artist — Helen Feng
Meet Helen, our Think!Chinatown 2026 Printmaking Artist for our Chinatown Block Parties this summer! Selected from our Open Call, she will be holding special flow-thru workshops with her custom-designed Chinatown linocut stamps to be unveiled during our Block Parties (5/31 and 8/30). Participants will be able to print banners and their own t-shirts or clothing items. See you at the block!
Helen Feng is a Brooklyn-based artist specializing in relief printmaking. Her work explores themes of nature, Chinese heritage, and lived experience, often evoking a sense of nostalgia through hand-carved textures and thoughtful color combinations. Working in small batches, she embraces the slow, intentional process of printmaking and the subtle variations that make each piece unique.
About the Chinatown Block Party 夏日傾情 : This program’s unofficial roots stem back to a 2020 Chinatown Arts Week exhibition curated by our dearly missed Corky Lee in theMosco St Newsstand. Chinatown Block Party was started by Rochelle Kwan (Chinatown Records), 8oxSet, and Think!Chinatown with dreams of carrying on this legacy of neighborhood gatherings and building upon these layers of memories, long into the future.
OUR 2026 CHINATOWN BLOCK PARTY 夏日傾情 TEAM
Think!Chinatown is a place-based intergenerational non-profit in Manhattan’s Chinatown, working at the intersection of storytelling, arts, and neighborhood engagement. We believe the process of listening, reflecting, and celebrating develops the community cohesion and trust necessary to work on larger neighborhood issues. By building strength from within our neighborhood, we can shape better policies and programs that define our public spaces, celebrate our cultural heritage, and innovate how our collective memories are represented. Think!Chinatown is the team behind neighborhood cultural programs like Chinatown Arts Festival, Chinatown Night Market, Chinatown Block Parties, Chinatown Storytelling Festival, Chinatown!Studio and more.
Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 is a homegrown collective and archive of inherited music collections based in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. Kicked off in 2018, Chinatown Records is a community effort to bring the archive’s music, memory, & history back to the neighborhood & beyond through block parties, sonic histories, workshops, radio, & so much more.
2026 DJ
Les The DJ is a DJ and community organizer originally from Manila, Philippines, now based in Washington, D.C. Their work focuses on cultural preservation and community building. They started OPM Sundays with Joel Quizon and Mark Anthony Enriquez, an archival project celebrating Filipino musical heritage, and is currently collaborating with archivist Ashley Dequilla on OPM+Home Movies, a series pairing 16mm Filipino American home movies with an all-vinyl Original Pilipino Music soundtrack. They also organize Chinatown Funk Express, a party showcasing dance music from across the Asian diaspora, and are part of the weekly show Rotations on WFMU’s Rock’N’Soul Radio. Les recently opened the pop-up record shop Buena Suerte with Martín Miguel. @lestalusan
Buckley Yung 翁百里 is a lifelong music lover, starting with memories of music and records that his parents loved. At age 13, he began searching out the latest direct-from-Hong Kong records in Boston’s Chinatown, then New York’s Manhattan Chinatown as he pursued his first urban planning job then long career at the MTA. Today, he spends his retirement as the archivist and resident DJ for Chinatown Records. To this day, every nook of his home continues to be filled with Chinese records and those happy memories with his parents that started it all! @thevinylbuck
Alice Liu 劉凱儀 is a longtime resident, intergenerational small business owner of Grand Tea & Imports, and community organizer born and bred in NYC’s Chinatown. She is a 90's kid who grew up alongside Mandarin and Cantonese hits that spanned from the 80's to whatever is on the radio at the moment. As an adult, these songs still pop back into her life, like a visit from an old friend, as she soundtracks family gatherings and neighborhood block parties as a resident DJ for Chinatown Records. @grandteaimports
yiuyiu 瑶瑶 is a DJ historian & educator homebased in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. Taking on her childhood name, yiuyiu cares for & activates the Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 archive of inherited record/CD/tape collections. As a community-taught DJ historian, she has the most fun going b2b (back-to-back) and teaching family, friends, & next generation DJ historians of all ages to bring the music & memories out to the streets of Chinatown, our living rooms, & the airwaves. She will always be a dancer first. @rochellehkwan
Uptown Vinyl Supreme is a DJ collective and community organization born in The Bronx, NYC, paying homage to the analog roots of music, party, and dance culture. Records have the power to uplift, inspire, and heal the people.Friends and lovers of vinyl Sunny Cheeba, Buddy, Josh Hubi, and Chiqui B take this responsibility seriously and continue to explore progressive ways in which this power can reach audiences all over the world, be it through dance gatherings, individual sessions, workshops, private functions, or cultural institutions. @uptownvinylsupreme
Rhythm & Hues has been sharing his selections for over a decade, setting dancefloors alight in places as far-flung as Mexico City, Cotonou, New York and Hong Kong. Co-founder of the Tumbao DJ collective, his specialty spans the afro-latin-brazilian-caribbean spectrum, with a predilection for vinyl. @rhythmandhu.es
Photos by Cindy Trinh (@cindytrinh.photo)
💃 PREVIOUS BLOCK PARTIES 🕺
Supported by Canal Sound and Light and the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs. Thank you to our community safety partner, Nonviolent Peaceforce.
[10/22, 4-8PM] Mott & Mosco Join us in celebrating the newly co-named Corky Lee Way 李揚國路 at the historic Mosco Street newsstand! The Corky Lee Way Committee, Think!Chinatown and 21Pell come together with YiuYiu 瑶瑶 (Chinatown Records 華埠錄音), Les The DJ, and Judo Club to honor our dearly missed friend Corky Lee and throw a neighborhood block party with music, dance, art and film that he would have loved to photograph! Let us know you’re coming ~ more info!