Photos 1 to 3: Year of the Horse graphics at back of three floats.

Photo 4: Marcher Vicky was very creative with her self-made steed.

Photo 5: Queens Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Tom Grech points the way to the festivities.

Photo 6: Meditating before the parade beginning.

Photo 7: Greeting the marchers: FDNY Engine Co. 273 & Ladder Co. 129 along with their prehistoric companion.

Photos 8 & 9: Approaching the reviewing stand: the NYPD Police Band and waving dignitaries behind red banner.

Photo 10: Councilman Phil Wong.

Photo 11: Councilwoman Linda Lee.

Photo 12: Congresswoman Grace Meng together with Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.

Photo 13: Assemblyman Ron Kim together with State Senator John Liu; seated in wheelchair is Sen. Liu’s mother Jamy.

Photo 14: Harpreet Singh Wahan, member of NYC Asian Affairs Council and member of Queens Community Board 7.

Photo 15: The parade reviewing stand at Kissena and Main.

Photo 16: They love a parade: (l to r)  Chloe Kwai,  Lucy Wong, and Lisa Prainito.

Photo 17:  Skylar the dog with mistress Nancy.

Photo 18: A gathering of marchers holding free Flushing Savings Bank dragons.

Photo 19: In the lion’s throat – a modern day Jonah.

Photos 20 & 21: Kicking and aiming high:  East Taekwando.

Photo 22: A smiling member of the Queens Public Library marches past the Flushing branch.

Photo 23: On the reviewing stand enjoying the parade:  (l to r) Grand Marshal Peter Tu of the Flushing Chinese Business Association, Flushing activist Bernard Chow, and NYC Councilman Phil Wong.

Photos 24 to 28: Various parade contingents filing past the reviewing stand.

Photos 29 to 31: Lions galore.

Photo 32: Guardian Angel and former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

Photo 33: Wearing a pig mask and a human nude breast plate, a sole marcher delights the onlookers.

Photos 34 & 35: Wearing elongated horns, a masked whip-carrying marcher produces sound cracks along the parade route.

Photo 36: Sousaphonists of the Falun Gong under the LIRR overpass.

Photos 37 & 38: Dragons chasing the ball.

Photos 39 & 40: Onlookers reach out to a passing dragon.

Photo 41: A dragon poses with twin bear cubs.

Photos by Walter Karling