Group photo of participants in Basement Workshop’s 6th annual Field Day in Chinatown’s Columbus Park. A summer tradition in Chinatown started many years before and sponsored previously by various community groups, Field Day encouraged fun and exercise among the neighborhood’s kids with competitions in track, basketball, Chinese and American chess, table tennis, volleyball, watermelon eating, and a variety of other games. Activities were only open to youth of Asian descent and winners received trophies at the end of the day. Photograph taken by Emile Bocian, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
The Asian American Movement in New York