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We are a non-profit institution that preserves and presents the diverse history, heritage, and culture of the Chinese diaspora in the US.
215 Centre St, New York, NY
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MOCA is deeply saddened and shocked by the devastating fire at Chinatown’s beloved 70 Mulberry. The MOCA team stayed on site until hoses stopped last night. Have reached out to emergency conservators. Thank you for outpouring of community support re: MOCA archives. Will update.
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Thank you to all of you who have reached out in this difficult time. In response to your inquiries as to how you can help, we’ve set up this page
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UPDATE: Thank you for your thoughts and prayers as we attempt to understand next steps re: the fire that devastated MOCA’s archives at 70 Mulberry St. We have recovered back-ups of 35,000 objects digitized from our collections. We anticipate a long road ahead. We will update you.
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UPDATE: As we continue to receive information from officials, we are preparing for the possibility that the collection is severely damaged or lost. We are on call and ready to enter upon notification the building is safe. We will need help. Thank you for your continued prayers.
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Happy Birthday,
@HarryShumJr
! Thanks for stopping by MOCA last year! We hope you have a great day!
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Dear MOCA Friends and Neighbors,
Breaking news!
MOCA is incredibly relieved to hear and share that the MOCA team just received word that the remaining 80% of the MOCA Collections, along with our neighbor tenants’ belongings, will be retrieved next week from 70 Mulberry.
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Extraordinary efforts today. Deep gratitude to all
#nyc
agencies, elected officials, and MOCA volunteers. We recovered approximately 160 boxes today. Holding tight to hope and focused on continued recovery of the MOCA Collection. We took our first steps today.
#chinatown
#
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A heartfelt thank you to everyone near and far who have supported the MOCA Archives Fire Recovery effort. We are now praying the 3rd floor of the building does not collapse on the 2nd floor that houses our archives. Please continue to keep MOCA in your thoughts and prayers.
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There are indicators we might be able to salvage some of the MOCA archives. Thank you to all the volunteers who mobilized quickly to help us prepare space to assess damage once we receive affected artifacts. We will update shortly.
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As of now, we have recovered 1/3 of MOCA's total collection. Wet items getting sent to an offsite facility for treatment.
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While we are grateful to have retrieved 1/3 of our collection, we are aware this represents a fraction of the entire 85,000-item archive. Our thoughts are very much focused on the two-thirds of the collection that is still sitting at 70 Mulberry Street whose condition is unknown.
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Gratitude. That's what we're feeling in huge abundance right now. Immense heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has supported our fire recovery effort this past month. We would like to share with you a letter we received in the mail from a school in New Jersey. It reads:
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We've got the key. We have big plans in store for a new space less than a block away from MOCA that we'll transform into the new Collections and Research Center. It will be the new home for our archives that we’ll recover from 70 Mulberry Street. Watch this space.
#chinatown
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SECOND STAGE of retrieval and recovery now underway! Initial assessment is 80% of what we’re retrieving is wet but appears salvageable. 3D paper sculptures being rescued today.
#chinatown
#chineseamerican
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It’s hard to believe that it was exactly one week ago that our shout was heard ‘round the world: “FIRST BOX IS OUT!” The artifacts retrieved so far have varying degrees of damage from moisture. Long road to recovery ahead. More images of recovered artifacts coming soon.
#chinatown
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Here’s a sign we recovered from our archives at 70 Mulberry. When it comes to how much we treasure every object and every life story told through our collection, we think that last line says it all: “ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD”.
#chinatown
#americanhistory
#nyc
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Here's a priceless artifact that survived the 70 Mulberry St. fire. This is a Singer sewing machine once owned by
#chinatown
garment worker Mok Sim Tsang. Her life speaks to the many untold stories that are brought to life through our collections.
#nyc
#americanhistory
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Thank you for your continued support. We are waiting to hear from
#NYC
officials as to when MOCA's collections and archives can be safely extracted. This picture is keeping us focused on recovery, which will be a long and complex process. We will update you as soon as possible.
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In our post-fire recovery, we’re fighting against water, weather, time and now mold. Here, an Alliance for Response NYC volunteer treats this antique stool from The China Bowl restaurant for mold. Grateful to volunteer help to save our collection.
#chinatown
#americanhistory
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MOCA has been awarded a $3m grant from Ford Foundation after being named one of “America’s Cultural Treasures”. Thank you
@fordfoundation
for supporting MOCA and your leadership in tackling inequity in arts and cultural funding.
#americanhistory
#arts
#chineseamerican
#chinatown
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Here are some of the artifacts we retrieved from 70 Mulberry St. that weren’t so lucky. These are from the Fly to Freedom collection. Strange to think the men who created these never imagined they would last long. They survived so long, only to end up like this.
#americanhistory
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Look who stopped by MOCA! It’s
@phillipasoo
with guest curator Donna Mah taking a little look at upcoming exhibition officially opening April 26-Sept. 9
#MOCAMedicine
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We are shocked and anguished by the murders of six women of Asian descent and two other victims in Atlanta. This is just the latest in a series of terrifying incidents that recall previous eras of anti-Asian bigotry.
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All aboard for some Transcontinental Railroad trivia! 🚂 Join us as we learn about the lives of Chinese immigrants who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. Live via Zoom 1/13 11AM EST! Register here:
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It was a blast hosting Larry Hama, Jerry Ma and David Chun for a discussion (and surprise live-draw!) on comic books from an Asian American perspective tonight. Thank you to all who made it happen and came out for this one of a kind program!
#comicbooks
#gijoe
#legendary
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#tbt
1947 Lunar New Year celebration on Mott St., Chinatown NYC. The street was flooded with people. Firecrackers were going off. Cameras snapping away at all the action. Lion Dancers ushering in the new year. Let's party!
#MOCAFEST2018
#ThrowbackThursday
#MOCACollections
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It's now been 1 month since the fire at 70 Mulberry St. jeopardized our 85,000-item archive. We want to take this moment to share a video that we filmed today. Behind those windows on the second floor lies the majority of MOCA's collection. Please keep us in your thoughts.
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This was recovered from our P.S. 23 collection. It's a drawer containing the records of students who once attended P.S. 23 back when 70 Mulberry St. was a public school starting in 1891. P.S. 23 has such a rich history. Look out for more posts from us about this historic school.
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In this era of digital communications, it’s nice to receive a handwritten letter once in a while. And even nicer when it’s hand delivered.
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Artifacts deemed dry but in wet packaging such as this paper sculpture tower get reboxed and prepared for transport to our recovery area at 215 Centre Street for further treatment.
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MOCA understands more fully the extraordinary expense and work to repair, recover, and rebuild its Collections + Archives. We're indebted to Comrise who will generously match $ for $ all funds raised for MOCA Archives Fire Recovery via GoFundMe. Thank you!
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This damaged scroll was recovered from our archives. It says Museum of Chinese in the Americas - MOCA’s name before 2009. During transfer to our recovery area, it was accidentally placed upside down. Seeing it that way, it feels like the fire has turned MOCA’s world upside down.
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We are staging a march and rally at 9:30AM this Thursday, February 27, 2020. We are marching from 215 Centre Street to 70 Mulberry Street.
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Amazing team effort today. Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped this week. Thank you to
@nycdcas
, NYC Municipal Archives and Alliance for Recovery NYC for your help. We have a long road to recovery ahead but we couldn’t have come this far without you!
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We had a returning visitor this afternoon!
@HarryShumJr
swung by with his family today to visit MOCA. Thanks for coming!
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Listen to NPR's All Things Considered as they interview MOCA's president about the fire that damaged MOCA's archives and what's next.
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#DidYouKnow
: The popular Bing Cherry was developed by a Chinese American farmer named Ah Bing in Milwaukie, Oregon in 1875
#APAHeritageMonth
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#Learn
w/
@MuseumModernArt
on 5/15! They just launched the free online course
#SeeingThroughPhotographs
in Mandarin
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Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! Let's party (and eat)~~! Be sure to check in at MOCA to make your new year complete! MOCA's Lunar New Year Family Festival is Tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 17 from 11am-4pm.
#yearofthedog
#LunarNewYear
#MOCAFEST2018
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Happy Birthday to director Ang Lee, who brought us the films "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Life of Pi"!
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We're sharing photos by Kevin Chu, our assistant director of collections, of some of his favorite objects in MOCA’s archives. This sign says “Bao Li No. 6 oldest pharmacy” and is from W.M. Olliffe Apothecary. It was founded in 1805, making it one of the oldest pharmacies in NYC.
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Among MOCA's most important collections is the Eric Ng collection of photos that tell Chinese American history. We recovered these from the damaged archives. Since no single object can do the collection justice, instead we're dedicating this tweet to Eric in honor of his work.
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🎆 HAPPY 4th of JULY! --This photo by Chan Hung is from July 4, 1986 and is of a fireworks spectacular commemorating the Statue of Liberty centennial. It's a view from the top of Confucius Plaza. Courtesy of MOCA Collections.
#4thofJuly
#MOCACollections
#MuseumFireworksShow
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This is not just a victory for MOCA. This is a victory for the entire community, for Chinatown, for every family whose life stories enrich the American narrative. This is a victory because each of you showed the power of what can be achieved when we come together in unity.
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We filmed this video at MOCA's archives at 70 Mulberry Street almost exactly a year ago in celebration of the Lunar New Year in 2019. Video filmed and edited by David Tan.
#chinatown
#chineseamerican
#americanhistory
#LunarNewYear
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In 1897, Port Arthur Restaurant was opened by Chu Gam Fai. It was named after a port city in Northern China, now called the Lüshunkou District. It was the first restaurant to receive a liquor license in Chinatown and remained in operation for over 80 years at the same location.
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MOCA stands against anti-Black violence and the institutional racism that supports it. In solidarity, we seek justice for
#GeorgeFloyd
#AhmaudArbery
#BreonnaTaylor
#TonyMcDade
#SeanReed
#NinaPop
and too many others in the Black community.
#BlackLivesMatter
. Painting by
@HerbTam
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History has been made. At the 93rd
#Oscars
, Chloé Zhao made history as the first
#womanofcolor
to win Best Director for "Nomadland" which also won for Best Picture. Yuh-Jung Youn became the first Korean woman in Oscar history to win best supporting actress for "Minari".
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Some of the original Chinese American Times, founded by William Yukon Chang that was the first Chinese American newspaper published entirely in English, retrieved! Condition unknown.
#chinatown
#chineseamerican
#americanhistory
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Everything is digital now, but don’t you just love a traditional, hand-written Christmas card from loved ones? Here’s a Christmas Card from Dorothy Toy and Paul Wing, a Chinese-American dance duo, straight from MOCA's Collection. Happy holidays everyone!
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Big THANK YOU to
@NYCSpeakerCoJo
and
@CM_MargaretChin
- they’ve secured $2.5 million for MOCA to help us establish a permanent home!
#mocaspike150
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Congratulations
@awkwafina
on your historic win at the
#goldenglobes
! Your win is a victory for the generations of AAPI actors and actresses before you and those in the future whom you’ve inspired tonight. Thank you!
Congratulations to Awkwafina (
@awkwafina
) - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - The Farewell (
@thefarewell
). -
#GoldenGlobes
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The world has lost two of its greatest icons. The MOCA family joins the rest of the world in mourning the loss of Ming Cho Lee, the legendary stage designer, and Cecilia Chiang, the pioneering restaurateur who broadened Americans' perception of Chinese cuisine. (1/8)
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@JLin7
and
@ronnychieng
are going to have a little chat this Saturday 5/19 at 5pm at Hotel 50 Bowery. Get your tickets now! Seating is very limited. …
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Happy Birthday to
@MrEddieHuang
! The TV show FRESH OFF THE BOAT is based on his bestselling memoir of the same name.
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We are deeply saddened to learn of Corky Lee's passing. A pillar of New York's Asian American community, Corky's pioneering photography was a form of activism and historical rehabilitation.
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While we are managing post-fire recovery of our archives, our normal work must continue. Applications for MOCA's 2020 Summer Internship now being accepted.
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OPENING SOON // Interior Lives: Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980s by Bud Glick //
@MOCANYC
presents the largest exhibition of Bud Glick’s work documenting life in NYC Chinatown in the 1980s, organized with
@MuseumofCityNY
Find out more here:
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Happy
#VeteransDay
! Did know that over 13,000 Chinese Americans fought for the US in WWII? Learn more at our exhibit, "With a Single Step."
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It's hard to believe that it's been nearly 4 weeks since the fire at 70 Mulberry Street changed our lives. As we reflect on what happened, we'd like to share excerpts from a social media post written by Kevin Chu, MOCA's assistant director of collections.
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MOCA FEST, the Museum of Chinese in America's monthlong celebration of Lunar New Year, has gone VIRTUAL!
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As we await word from NYC officials as to when retrieval of the remaining two-thirds of our collection from 70 Mulberry Street can begin, we have been given the all-clear by conservators who have been treating…
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MOCA held a community gathering at 215 Centre Street in lieu of a planned march and rally on Thursday, Feb. 27. The purpose was to update the community about next steps in the retrieval of archives. We were so moved to see such a diverse group come out and support us.
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We’re back with another MOCAKIDS: Drag Story Hour with
@YuhuaHamasaki
&
@DQSHtweets
🌈, and this time we’re going virtual! 💻 Join us on Zoom tomorrow 5/5 4PM ET for stories, songs, and crafts. 📚🎶💕 Register FREE here:
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Lunar New Year is only 2 WEEKS away!
Come to MOCA Shop by Pearl River for everything you need to wish your family, friends and loved ones Happiness, Fun, Joy, Peace, Love, and Luck!
Hong bao (red envelopes) now on sale. Don’t forget to fill them with money!🧧🧧🧧🧧🧧
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Episode 4 has 30 minutes of almost ONLY Asians on network TV. That's revolutionary.
#FreshOffTheBoat
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At MOCA we believe in telling the untold stories in the making of America. So we applaud today's
#GoogleDoodle
for telling the untold story of
#AnnaMayWong
, the first
#chineseamerican
movie star in
#Hollywood
. Celebrate
#lunarnewyear
at MOCA and learn more about this pioneer.
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First book of registered members of the Asociación China de Mexicali at Mexicali Baja, 1918.
Come and see it at MOCA's new Gathering exhibit😊!
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Here's a photo of audiovisual materials from MOCA's Who Killed Vincent Chin? collection taken by Kevin Chu, MOCA's assistant director of collections. These are, as Kevin put it, "pictures from better times" before the fire at 70 Mulberry Street devastated our archives.
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Heartfelt thanks to
@wingonwoandco
and the W.O.W. Project for bringing together 25+ artists and makers for a silent art auction 2/17 to 2/24. The auction will raise $$$ for the recovery, repair and rebuilding of MOCA's archives following the fire at 70 Mulberry Street.
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Just retrieved from our priceless Golden Venture paper sculpture collection! Condition unknown.
#chinatown
#chineseamerican
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Today we remember Hyun Jung Grant, Daoyou Feng, Suncha Kim, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, Delaina Ashley Yuan, and Yong Ae Yue who were killed one year ago in an act of racial terror in Atlanta. Our thoughts are with their families, friends and loved ones.
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#InternationalWomensDay
! This is a photo of New York's Ging Hawk Club, an association for Chinese American women in 1920s and 30s. Ging Hawk means "striving for knowledge". From community services to social events, they were "pioneers in social consciousness".
#MOCACollection
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Yung Wing (1828-1912) attended Yale University 1850. Wing created history by being the first Chinese student to graduate from a North American university. His 12,000 book donation led to the creation of Yale's world-renowned East Asian Library.
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This is due to your steadfast support over the last couple of days! Yesterday and today, MOCA gathered concerned members of the community, volunteers, and supporters to stress the urgent prioritization needed to salvage the MOCA Collections stuck in 70 Mulberry since January 23.
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#throwbackthursday
Maggie Gee (b. 1923). Women Airforce Service Pilot. Got her wings in 1944. 1of2 ChineseAmerican who served.
#dayoffacts
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#OTD
in 1912
#HazelYingLee
was born. In 1943 she became the first Chinese American woman to fly for the military.
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Last year, MOCA had two interns reflect on the death of Vincent Chin, its aftermath + impact
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In order to enforce Chinese exclusion, Angel Island opened in 1910 to interrogate Chinese immigrants. Coaching books such as this one were created to help paper sons memorize details relevant to their “family” to answer questions during the intense interrogations.
#mocaspike150
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Jeremy Lin came to chat with members of the Museum of Chinese in America on 5/19. See what how he responds when kids ask him questions.
@mocanyc
@JLin7
@ronnychieng
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We are deeply saddened to hear that I.M. Pei has passed away at the age of 102. He was an icon, role model and inspiration, not only for Chinese Americans but for all creative people around the world.
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Given the clear timeline and action plan to retrieve the remaining items at 70 Mulberry, MOCA will replace its march and rally with a recovery sign-up and breakfast gathering tomorrow Feb. 27 at 9:30AM at 215 Centre Street.
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