{"id":50836,"date":"2015-02-21T08:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50836"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:30:39","slug":"lunar-new-year-parade-in-flushing-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50836","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year Parade in Flushing 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/21\/2015 11am<br \/>\nUnion St and 37th Ave<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Anthony-Correia-Shutterstock-2-600x409.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[50836]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Anthony-Correia-Shutterstock-2-600x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLunar New Year celebrations in Flushing is Saturday, February 21, 2015, with Flushing&#8217;s 19th annual Lunar New Year Parade. Parade times are from 11 a.m. until about an hour later. It&#8217;s the Year of the Sheep!<\/p>\n<p>Flushing, Queens, is home to one of the largest Chinese and East Asian populations in New York City, rivaling Manhattan&#8217;s Chinatown. Also joining the parade are other East Asian groups in Queens, particularly the Korean community. Plus there are more New Year events in February.<\/p>\n<p>Route: Begins, Union St and 37th Ave and usually ends at Main St and 39th Ave.<\/p>\n<p>When: February 21, 2015. Start time is 11 a.m. Parade takes about an hour.<br \/>\nChinese Food and Folk Performances at Queens Crossing Mall:<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese performers in the parade usually end the procession with a celebration at the Queens Crossing Mall, where there&#8217;s more cultural activities. There will be traditional cultural performances and festival booths.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Crossing Mall: 136-17 39th Ave<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinatown-online.com\/year\/year.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chinatown-online.com\/year\/year.shtml<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/21\/2015 11am Union St and 37th Ave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50934,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50836\/revisions\/50934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}