{"id":143119,"date":"2026-02-23T20:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:55:05","slug":"18th-avenue-lunar-new-year-parade-marches-on-before-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143119\/","title":{"rendered":"18th Avenue Lunar New Year Parade marches on before blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parade followed at noon and went along 18th Avenue from 65th to 84th streets and included music, food and the traditional dragon and lion dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the challenging weather and the approaching storm, our community spirit is stronger than ever,\u201d said organization Homecrest Community Services on Facebook. \u201cToday, we are proud to have 70-plus Homecrest members \u2014 including older adults, youth, kids and parents \u2014 joining the 18th Avenue Lunar New Year Parade hosted by CASS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post continued, \u201cThis is truly an intergenerational celebration of culture, connection and resilience. Seeing our members walk side by side, supporting one another and carrying forward our traditions, reminds us why this work matters. Our energy is high, our hearts are full, and our community shines \u2014 rain or shine. Wishing everyone a joyful, healthy and prosperous Lunar New Year!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parade followed at noon and went along 18th Avenue from 65th to 84th streets and included music,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2571,2572,98,100,99,18444,41672,9,24,63,273],"class_list":{"0":"post-143119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-bklyn-live","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-jaime-dejesus","14":"tag-lunar-new-year","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-parades"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143119","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=143119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}