According to the Better Chinatown Society, the event sponsor, yesterday's Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown drew more than 400,000 spectators. We took in the sights and sounds along Mott Street, just barely surviving the press section mosh pit...
Thousands of people lined the streets of Chinatown today for the annual Lunar New Year Parade, sponsored by the Better Chinatown Society. Tomorrow we'll have a full photo album from today's festivities.
Yesterday we posted photos and video from Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Chinatown. Today more images, courtesy of downtown photojournalist Tim Schreier. Click through for an interesting perspective on the Year of the Dragon.
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It was a dramatic scene in Sara D. Roosevelt Park earlier today, as community leaders and residents ushered in the Year of the Dragon. The event kicked off a series of festivities in celebration of the Lunar Chinese New...
The Year of the Dragon officially begins on Monday, Jan. 23, and the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration begins this weekend around Chinatown and the Lower East Side. We've collected a list of local events below; if we missed any, send...
Last March. residents got the chance to tell city officials what they'd like to see done with Forsyth Plaza, the triangle at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. Asian Americans For Equality, the neighborhood advocacy organization, had received a...
Since Private Danny Chen died in Afghanistan in October, his loved ones have struggled to learn the events leading up to his death. Yesterday, thanks to tireless advocacy by his family and activists in the Chinese-American community, the U.S. Army finally provided...
The Danny Chen investigation is now front page news. Yesterday, the U.S. military announced that eight soldiers have been charged in connection with the October 3rd death of the 19-year old Lower East Side resident. This morning's New York...
