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Favor Coffee Pop-up
May
8

Favor Coffee Pop-up

Visit The Hub for Test Thursday, our new initiative for entrepreneurs to test concepts + gain customer insight. Stop by for coffee tastings and pour overs from Favor Coffee.

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May
8

Founder Talk: Going Independent in 2025 with Hope King

Kicking off our Founder Talks series!

We’re kicking off Founder Talks with a special conversation featuring Hope King, a former finance exec turned journalist. Hope has helped shape three of the most successful media startups of the past decade — Business Insider, Cheddar and Axios. She’s now the founder of her own media venture, Macro Talk: a bold new video platform focused on the economy and labor market.

​The evening will begin with a screening of the debut episode of Macro Talk, featuring author and business strategist Dorie Clark in a timely conversation on how to deal with AI and political uncertainty in 2025. Following the screening, we’ll sit down with Hope to talk about what it means to go independent in today’s economy, why she chose to build Macro Talk now, and what she’s learning as a first-time founder navigating freelancing, media, and entrepreneurship all at once. ​Light bites and drinks from Moshi and Lunar will be served.




Founder Talks is a new series that brings you behind the scenes with entrepreneurs navigating the wins, setbacks, and pivotal decisions that don’t always make the headlines. Each talk is a one-on-one, candid conversation with a founder, focused on 1–2 defining moments or hard-won lessons from their journey.

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Open Office Hours
May
14

Open Office Hours

Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.

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Open Office Hours
May
28

Open Office Hours

Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.

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Open Office Hours
Jun
25

Open Office Hours

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Open Office Hours
Apr
22

Open Office Hours

Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.

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Open Office Hours
Apr
10

Open Office Hours

Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.

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Tomb Sweeping Workshop & Panel Discussion
Apr
3

Tomb Sweeping Workshop & Panel Discussion

Join us for a special (清明節) Tomb Sweeping Workshop, where we’ll dive into the traditions of ancestor veneration—what it means, how it’s practiced, and its deep cultural significance. We are honored to have Grand Tea and Imports, Chop Suey Club, and Jan Lee to share their stories and how they observe the holiday and followed by a workshop.

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Open Office Hours
Mar
20

Open Office Hours

Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.

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Onigiri Noah Pop-Up
Mar
6

Onigiri Noah Pop-Up

Visit The Hub for our first (!) Test Thursday, our new initiative for entrepreneurs to test concepts + gain customer insight. Stop by for made-to-order onigiri’s by Noah.

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New Year, New Business
Feb
20

New Year, New Business

This Business 201 session with Welcome to Chinatown and JP Morgan will provide the tools to take your vision to the next level, whether you’re an emerging entrepreneur or current small business owner.

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Holiday Wreath Workshop with Shu's Flower
Dec
12

Holiday Wreath Workshop with Shu's Flower

Join us to create your own Christmas wreath with Fan Favorite Small Business: Shu's Flower.

Come to learn how to make your own fresh holiday wreath with Shu just in time for the holiday season. Each $125 ticket  guarantees a bespoke holiday wreath to take home, tools, light refreshments, and an evening of holiday fun while supporting a Chinatown small business. 



Drinks and light snacks provided!

About Shu’s Flower:

Based in the heart of NOLITA, Shu’s flower has the best varieties of fresh cut opulence décor for home or office, even a little gift for your loved ones. As flowers are part of daily life, we aim to provide the unique and simple design from bouquets to the chuppah, the table arrangements for our daily customers. Shu’s flower provides expertise, same day arrangement delivery to weekly corporate accounts to specialized occasions and wedding grandeur.

Shu’s Flower was a winner of our 2024 Small Business Awards, in the Fan Favorite category! Our Fan Favorite was chosen through an open nomination and voting process – think of it like a people’s choice award. Each year, the nominations and enthusiastic voters remind us of the significance this neighborhood has in the lives of so many.

Check out Ben Hon (@stuffbeaneats) spotlight of Shu’s Flower to learn more about Shu’s story.

Shu and fellow Small Business Award winners were honored at our Gala on September 19th. Small businesses are the heart and backbone of Chinatown. Welcome to Chinatown’s Small Business Awards honor local businesses and entrepreneurs for their contributions to Chinatown and the wider community.

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