{"id":70146,"date":"2017-04-29T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=70146"},"modified":"2017-04-16T07:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T11:29:38","slug":"the-queens-international-night-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=70146","title":{"rendered":"The Queens International Night Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 29th
\nNew York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park <\/p>\n

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The Queens International Night Market returns to the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Saturdays, starting April 22nd, 2017. The Night Market is selling a limited number of tickets for two \u201csneak preview\u201d events on April 22nd and April 29th to help alleviate traffic, capacity issues, and any disruption to the surrounding community from opening nights.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $5 and only sold in advance – children under 12 are free.
\nTickets for both nights are available here: queensnightmarket.ticketleap.com<\/a>
\nThe Night Market will be free and open to the public again starting on May 6th.<\/p>\n

Charities:
\nThe Night Market is donating half of the ticket proceeds to three NYC nonprofits: 1) the New York Immigration Coalition, 2) the New York Police and Fire Widows\u2019 and Children\u2019s Benefit Fund, and 3) the Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park.<\/p>\n

Returning food entries include the always-popular Burmese palatas, Romanian chimney cakes, Chilean completes and chacareros, and Middle Eastern stews. New highlights including Valencian paella; Chinese sugar painting; Indonesian kue pancong; Ecuadorian bollos and corviche; Barbadian fishballs; Nigerian jollof rice and puff-puff; Puerto Rican jibaritos and mofongo; Ukrainian perogies and borscht; Malaysian ramly burgers and kaya toast; Bolivian anticuchos (cow heart skewers); and Mexican tamales de chapulines (crickets).<\/p>\n

While the Night Market will maintain its general $5 price cap on food items, a few vendors will be permitted to sell at a $6 price point this year to help out where vendor margins are razor-thin.<\/p>\n

Performers:<\/p>\n

Over the last two years, the Night Market has featured over 100 local performing artists, from salsa bands to Bollywood dancers, from martial artists to brass bands, from rock bands to capoeira, and from African dance troops to jazz bands. The following is the performer lineup for the sneak preview nights.<\/p>\n

April 29th:
\n6:15-7:30pm \u2013 Bette Smith opens with her fierce-soul-strutting R&B vocals
\n7:45-8:39pm \u2013 Concrete is an award-winning a cappella group
\n8:45-9:30pm \u2013 Bridges and Powerlines follows with their optimistic fuzzy pop and indie rock
\n9:45-10:45pm \u2013 Gentleman Brawlers takes over with their funky afrobeat
\n10:45pm-midnight \u2013 DJ Lil Buddy closes out the second sneak preview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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