{"id":317791,"date":"2026-08-10T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:16:47","slug":"queens-celebrates-34th-annual-hong-kong-dragon-boat-festival-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317791\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens celebrates 34th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Community members gathered to take in the festivities offered at the 34th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival<\/a> on Aug. 8 and 9 at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

In addition to the wide variety of dragon boat races, there were several cultural and musical performances.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

An international marketplace provided the thousands of attendees with a chance to take in the multicultural cuisines, including from multiple food trucks, as well as traditional arts and crafts, sponsor activations and community programming.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

Multiple elected officials were on hand for this year\u2019s Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, including New York State Attorney General Letitia James, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, New York City Comptroller Mark Levine, New York City Council Members Shanel Thomas-Henry, Phil Wong and Susan Zhuang and New York State Assemblymember Edward Braunstein. Several elected officials also took part in the dragon boat races.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(Left to right) New York City Council Member Phil Wong, Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Chairman Henry Wan, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Council Members Shanel Thomas-Henry and Susan Zhuang. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really a celebration of the Asian community. It\u2019s also critically important that the Asian community know that they are not alone,\u201d James said. \u201cWe are seeing an increasing number of acts of hate, and it\u2019s important that we stay together and we stand together, and that we cover the Asian community, and that we join with them arm in arm, with no space between us, letting them know that we are all one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival] brings such positive energy here to Queens,\u201d Braunstein said. \u201cReally, I just want to thank everybody involved, from Henry [Wan], the [festival\u2019s] chairman, to all of the volunteers, to all the sponsors, to all the teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

Among the sponsors and community partners for this year\u2019s Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival are the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, HSBC<\/a>, the\u00a0Bank of China<\/a>,\u00a0Flushing Bank<\/a>\u00a0(OceanFirst),\u00a0Resorts World<\/a>,\u00a0NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital<\/a>,\u00a0Metropolitan Park<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0New York Mets<\/a>\u00a0 \/\u00a0Hard Rock<\/a>,\u00a0Shanghai Commercial Bank<\/a>,\u00a0Con Edison<\/a>,\u00a0JPMorganChase<\/a>,\u00a0National Grid<\/a>,\u00a0Bank of America, <\/a>Spectrum<\/a>,\u00a0Citizens<\/a>,\u00a0Raising Cane\u2019s<\/a>, Paw Patrol,\u00a0USTA Eastern<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Hong Kong Tourism Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members gathered to take in the festivities offered at the 34th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[116413,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-317791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-hong-kong-dragon-boat-festival","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\/317791","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=317791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}