Chinese delivery man

Take Out is a independent film depicting a day-in-the-life of an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Take Out was filmed in and near upper-Manhattan, New York, in the spring of It debuted at the Slamdance Film Festival in January Ming is behind with payments on his huge debt to the smugglers who brought him to the United States. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money that is due.

What might ordinarily be a rather low-profile trial in State Supreme Court in Queens this week has attracted a lot of attention from the Chinese language press. It is the trial of one of two teenagers charged with robbing and then brutally killing an year-old Chinese food deliveryman a year ago to get money to buy Air Jordan sneakers. The deliveryman, Huang Chen, who was working for his family's takeout restaurant in South Jamaica, was lured to an apartment by three teenagers and robbed and brutally beaten and stabbed to death. The case set off outrage, particularly in the Chinese-American communities in New York City, because of its brutality and because it was one of a string of violent crimes against Chinese delivery employees working for takeout restaurants in high-crime neighborhoods. When the trial started on Tuesday, the deliveryman's family held a news conference in front of the Queens courthouse, in Kew Gardens, along with leaders from the Chinese community. Yesterday, reporters from five Chinese language newspapers covered the proceedings. One of them, Joe Xia, a reporter for Ming Pao, a daily newspaper in New York, said that many of the papers, both in New York and in China, had been publishing daily articles about the case.

In , Jing Wang, a CUNY graduate student in film, agreed to help out a friend who was working on a dissertation about the plight of food delivery cyclists in New York City. During the first interview, the workers, grizzled men in their 50s and 60s, spoke openly about toiling long days to repay smugglers and support their families back home. Now, the city was making their lives even harder by fining them for riding throttle-assisted e-bikes.

A volatile mix of grief, anger and frustration erupted in Superior Court on Wednesday as an year-old Hackensack youth was sentenced to 24 years in prison for killing the owner of a Chinese restaurant in Paterson. He and his family had moved to New Jersey just two months before. Zhou's wife, Xiaomei Liu, was with her husband in the car when he was killed at about 1 a. She and her family came to court angry about a plea bargain that the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office had worked out with the defendant, Najee Dean, who avoided trial by pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter. Dean must serve at least 20 years before being eligible for parole, but the Zhou family wanted Judge Marilyn C.