{"id":146813,"date":"2026-02-27T00:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:53:36","slug":"lunar-new-year-parade-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146813\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year Parade 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos 1 to 3: Year of the Horse graphics at back of three floats.<\/p>\n

Photo 4: Marcher Vicky was very creative with her self-made steed.<\/p>\n

Photo 5: Queens Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Tom Grech points the way to the festivities.<\/p>\n

Photo 6: Meditating before the parade beginning.<\/p>\n

Photo 7: Greeting the marchers: FDNY Engine Co. 273 & Ladder Co. 129 along with their prehistoric companion.<\/p>\n

Photos 8 & 9: Approaching the reviewing stand: the NYPD Police Band and waving dignitaries behind red banner.<\/p>\n

Photo 10: Councilman Phil Wong.<\/p>\n

Photo 11: Councilwoman Linda Lee.<\/p>\n

Photo 12: Congresswoman Grace Meng together with Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.<\/p>\n

Photo 13: Assemblyman Ron Kim together with State Senator John Liu; seated in wheelchair is Sen. Liu\u2019s mother Jamy.<\/p>\n

Photo 14: Harpreet Singh Wahan, member of NYC Asian Affairs Council and member of Queens Community Board 7.<\/p>\n

Photo 15: The parade reviewing stand at Kissena and Main.<\/p>\n

Photo 16: They love a parade: (l to r)\u00a0 Chloe Kwai,\u00a0 Lucy Wong, and Lisa Prainito.<\/p>\n

Photo 17: \u00a0Skylar the dog with mistress Nancy.<\/p>\n

Photo 18: A gathering of marchers holding free Flushing Savings Bank dragons.<\/p>\n

Photo 19: In the lion\u2019s throat \u2013 a modern day Jonah.<\/p>\n

Photos 20 & 21: Kicking and aiming high:\u00a0 East Taekwando.<\/p>\n

Photo 22: A smiling member of the Queens Public Library marches past the Flushing branch.<\/p>\n

Photo 23: On the reviewing stand enjoying the parade:\u00a0 (l to r) Grand Marshal Peter Tu of the Flushing Chinese Business Association, Flushing activist Bernard Chow, and NYC Councilman Phil Wong.<\/p>\n

Photos 24 to 28: Various parade contingents filing past the reviewing stand.<\/p>\n

Photos 29 to 31: Lions galore.<\/p>\n

Photo 32: Guardian Angel and former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n

Photo 33: Wearing a pig mask and a human nude breast plate, a sole marcher delights the onlookers.<\/p>\n

Photos 34 & 35: Wearing elongated horns, a masked whip-carrying marcher produces sound cracks along the parade route.<\/p>\n

Photo 36: Sousaphonists of the Falun Gong under the LIRR overpass.<\/p>\n

Photos 37 & 38: Dragons chasing the ball.<\/p>\n

Photos 39 & 40: Onlookers reach out to a passing dragon.<\/p>\n

Photo 41: A dragon poses with twin bear cubs.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Walter Karling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos 1 to 3: Year of the Horse graphics at back of three floats. Photo 4: Marcher Vicky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-146813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146813","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=146813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}