The Chinatown shop needs a gut renovation, but more than $320,000 in donations will keep the business afloat and staff paid.
In the early afternoon on July 4, Lucy Yu was behind the counter at Yu & Me Books, the bookstore and café she founded in Chinatown, when she began to smell smoke. A customer asked, “Are we safe?” and Yu said it was probably from the fireworks down the street. She was planning to have an easy day — some of her friends were coming over to hang out and drink whiskey — but then a woman who lived upstairs burst in. “There’s a fire!” she shouted, coughing.
Yu yelled at everyone to leave — “I don’t even remember what I grabbed” — and locked the door. She stood across the street, watching in shock as firefighters arrived minutes later and smashed the upstairs windows, sending plumes of heavy smoke billowing up. Her neighbors had already gotten out, and they were mostly stunned but okay, with the exception of an elderly Asian man who lived directly above the store, whom first responders took out on a gurney in critical condition.
When Yu & Me Books opened less than two years ago at 44 Mulberry Street, with the goal of spotlighting diverse books in the historic immigrant neighborhood, it quickly became a beloved gathering space for Asian American readers and writers and a community hub for a neighborhood reeling from the pandemic and hate crimes. It’s now the latest storefront in the neighborhood to succumb to a fire.
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