{"id":132313,"date":"2026-02-13T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132313\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:34:31","slug":"best-things-to-do-for-lunar-new-year-2026-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132313\/","title":{"rendered":"Best things to do for Lunar New Year 2026 in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lunar New Year (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/things-to-do\/chinese-new-year-dates-animals-traditions-celebrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese New Year<\/a>) is here to lift us\u00a0up with new beginnings, beautiful art and delicious food. The celebration includes bursting firecrackers, lion dances, and delicious cuisine, including at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/manhattan\/chinatown-manhattan-neighborhood-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinatown<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/events-festivals\/chinese-new-year-parade?package_page=46113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese New Year Parade<\/a>,\u00a0one\u00a0of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/events-calendar\/february-events-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best events in January and February<\/a>. Don&#8217;t miss filling your belly with amazing cuisine from one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/restaurants\/best-chinese-restaurants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best Chinese\u00a0restaurants in NYC<\/a>\u00a0either!<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: Full guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lunar New Year in NYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year (or Chinese New Year) is here to lift us\u00a0up with new beginnings, beautiful art and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,904,52209],"class_list":{"0":"post-132313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-things-to-do","14":"tag-things-to-do-festivals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}