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For years, Eric Adams had promised the Chinese American community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a “Friendship Archway,” to be gifted from China to Brooklyn\u2019s Chinatown. “Bringing New York City’s first-ever Friendship Archway to Brooklyn has been a labor of love,” Adams said in a press release in 2017, touting<\/a> the new arch alongside then-Mayor Bill de Blasio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The “Friendship Archway” was the brainchild of Winnie Greco, who was an unpaid fundraiser for Eric Adams while he was Brooklyn borough president. (Greco’s last name was previously Zheng.) In 2014, Greco’s nonprofit reportedly paid for Adams to go to China<\/a>, ostensibly to get him on board with the archway plan. Greco then spent the next several years using her organization, the Sino-America NY Brooklyn Archway Association, to fundraise for the arch, amassing $221,000 between 2013 and 2018, according to tax records<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As borough president, Adams set aside $2 million in City funding for the archway, which was to be built by the Chinese government and then shipped over to the U.S. But despite de Blasio giving his blessing for the project, the deal fell apart<\/a>\u2014in 2020, the de Blasio administration announced that the arch wasn’t coming, with Adams’s office blaming worsening relations between China and the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n