We’re A Lot Safer with Fung Wah Buses Off the Road
Fung Wah Began in Brooklyn
Pei Lin Liang, who had come to America from China 12 years earlier, founded it in 1997, borrowing “$60,000 from relatives to buy four vans and started shuttling Chinese immigrants between Brooklyn and Chinatown in New York,” the Boston Globe once reported. Garment and restaurant workers living in Sunset Park were nervous about riding the subway during the Giuliani years. “Competition was too fierce, though, and Liang decided a year later to obtain a federal passenger-carrier permit and begin van service to Boston,” the Globe added, with the idea of bringing immigrants to visit their children attending schools there. [photo]