{"id":145513,"date":"2026-02-26T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:16:12","slug":"lunar-new-year-celebrations-welcome-year-of-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145513\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year celebrations welcome Year of the Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 LUNAR NEW YEAR celebrations continue in Brooklyn this week and next, including an event hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso\u2019s at Borough Hall and an all-day festival at the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum.<\/p>\n<p>At Borough Hall, Reynoso will be joined by Councilmember Susan Zhuang at an fun-filled evening featuring food, dancing and community traditions on Friday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, March 1, the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum hosts an array of lively performances and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynkids.org\/events\/celebrate-lunar-new-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">activities<\/a>, including the famous Lunar New Year lion dance; a kung-fu workshop; storytime with authors Yobe Qiu and Michele Wong McSween; calligraphy lessons; Chinese folk music and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The festival at BCM is presented with the New York Chinese Cultural Center and the Chinatown Community Young Lions, and in partnership with Zhuang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 LUNAR NEW YEAR celebrations continue in Brooklyn this week and next, including an event hosted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2898,30011,3302,98,9346,100,99,41672,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-145513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-antonio-reynoso","tag-borough-hall","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-childrens-museum","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145513","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=145513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}