Chinatown's Hudson Street could get new restaurant, apartments

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a vacant lot at 12-12A Hudson St. with a new six-story building that would have a two-level restaurant and four one-bedroom apartments above it.

Victoria Wong's proposed building would go next to the old Ginza restaurant, where a new hot-pot place is going in.

The new building would have no parking spaces. Wong's attorney, George Morancy, said she agreed not to put a billboard atop the building and that none of the apartments would be allowed to be used for short-term rentals.