By Suzanne Ma
DNAinfo reporter/producer
CHINATOWN — About two dozen spirited Chinatown residents gathered at Chatham Square Friday afternoon, brandishing an oversized report card for Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
They wrote six large "F"s on the giant black board, giving the mayor failing grades on the issues most important to Chinatown residents.
Residents called on other communities to issue similar report cards to the mayor. Calls to the Bloomberg campaign office on Friday afternoon were not returned.
"We are here today to say all neighborhoods in New York City should be issuing their own report cards," said Jan Lee, a Chinatown resident and business owner.
"We know that the communities in New York City have similar report cards to ours. We don't have $200 million to spend but we have the voices of people behind us," said Lee, alluding to Bloomberg's campaign budget for advertising.
On the residents' list of grievances: speeding traffic coming off the Manhattan Bridge they say endangers pedestrians, the ongoing closure of Park Row to residential traffic, and the reconstruction of Chatham Square.
"Bloomberg has put this community through a hellish ordeal by trying to ram through the Chatham Square and Park Row reconfiguration," said Jeanie Chin, who lives on Park Row.
"Where Chinatown needed the most help, was in slowing down traffic coming off the Manhattan Bridge. Bloomberg's administration did nothing."
Protestors also complained about the building of several hotels and luxury condo buildings that they say have led to unemployment and rising rents for small businesses.
The protestors did give one "A+" grade to Bloomberg: "In lying."
Bloomberg, they charged, is master of saying one thing and doing another.
