Goodbye Empire Tailors & Cleaners

After 26 years serving Hell's Kitchen, on January 11, 2018 the Chong family closed the doors and shuttered the gate ​for the last time at Empire Tailors & Cleaners. ​

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​​The Chong's didn't want to go. They were forced out  - the landlord tripled the rent.  It's a shame. And it's shameful. Because we didn't just lose an excellent tailor and dry cleaners. We lost family. ​​
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​The Chong's are Hell's Kitchen family.​ They understand a good neighborhood is a community of people committed to it and to one another. And so they were. 

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