Hing Hay Park
Public square in Chinatown with a Taipei-gifted pavilion and a railroad-history dragon mural.
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This guide to Hing Hay Park in Seattle's Chinatown-International District starts with the Wah Mee massacre of February 1983, when three men tied up fourteen people in a nearby gambling club and opened fire, and with Wai Yok Chin, the pai gow dealer who survived by sliding under a table. It follows what came after for the men responsible, and how that crime shaped outside perceptions of the neighborhood for years. The guide then turns to the park itself, opened in 1973 on former bank land, its Taipei-gifted pavilion, and the 1977 railroad-history mural by artist John Woo on the wall nearby.
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