{"id":9464,"date":"2011-02-11T03:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T22:52:23","slug":"lunar-new-year-in-flushing-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=9464","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year in Flushing New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend of the 12th will mark the end of Lunar New Year.\u00a0 Flushing will hold a host of celebrations and Kinokuniya should be holding a animemanga styled decorate blank sneaker battle.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lunar_new_year_2010a.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9464]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9465\" title=\"lunar_new_year_2010a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lunar_new_year_2010a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) Lunar New Year Parade &#8211; February 12, 2011: Flushing starts at 11am<\/p>\n<p>Viewing Stands: TBD, usually at Flushing Library (Main and Kissena) and at the parade&#8217;s end. Most people watch on Main St. Route: Begins, Union St and 39th Ave and usually ends&#8230; at Main St and 39th Ave.<\/p>\n<p>2) Fireworks and Music &#8211; TBD, usually at Queens Crossing Mall (39th Ave and Main St) starting at 12:30 p.m.<\/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. This is still TBD. Queens Crossing Mall: 136-17 39th Ave<\/p>\n<p>3) Korean Lunar New Year Celebration at Korea Village:<\/p>\n<p>The Korean parade contingent usually celebrates at Korea Village&#8217;s Open Center, a cultural space, where there will be Korean food, games, dancing, martial arts, music, and a karaoke contest. Korea Village Open Center: 150-24 Northern Blvd at 150th St<\/p>\n<p>4) Lunar New Year Festival at Flushing Town Hall:<\/p>\n<p>Flushing Town Hall hosts a Lunar New Year Festival from January to February with events and a month-long exhibit of tiger traditions from Chinese culture.<\/p>\n<p>Following the parade, there&#8217;s a performance from China, Korea, Indonesia, and more (February 20, 2 p.m.). Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd, at Linden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend of the 12th will mark the end of Lunar New Year.\u00a0 Flushing will hold a host of celebrations and Kinokuniya should be holding a animemanga styled decorate blank sneaker battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4749,2055],"class_list":["post-9464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","tag-flushing-new-york","tag-lunar-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}