Chinese New Year Parade

January 26th, 2004 · 9 Comments

Chinese New Year Parade
Confetti Everywhere, Chinatown, Manhattan

Dragon Dancer, Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan

After dim sum at Jing Fong, Eleanor, Jeannette, Yvan, Tien, Shannan, Jessica and I met up with Jen and Jake on the parade route to watch the Chinese New Year festivities. What a great way to celebrate my chinese-ness, or lack there of! My goal of the day was to see some dragon dancers, which I’d never seen before. Luckily, there were several of them. Unluckily, the temperature outside was about eight degrees. After an hour standing outside I could no longer feel my extremities and my camera was whacked out so we left.

ï¿½ More Photos

Here’s a funny movie clip of Tien and Jeannette at dim sum:
ï¿½ Caw! Caw! (.mov, 788k)

More information:
ï¿½ 2004/4702 Chinese New Year Parade, by Tien
ï¿½ Chinese New Year, by Eleanor
ï¿½ Jessica’s Ofoto Album
ï¿½ Chinatown Parade, by Jake
ï¿½ Chinatown Parade Photo Gallery, by Jake
ï¿½ Chinese New Year Parade, by Jen for Gothamist

Tags: Holidays

9 responses so far ↓

1 tien mao's little read book... // Jan 26, 2004 at 9:14 am

2004/4702 Chinese New Year Parade

I remember going to the New Year’s parade when I was a kid, and while some things are the same, some things have changed. I remember firecrackers when I was a child. They were loud, but they added a lot to the parade experience and are an important t…
2 Nan // Jan 26, 2004 at 10:24 am

OMG Jeannette in the movie clip made me laugh out loud. Breathe! Too funny.
3 jeannette // Jan 26, 2004 at 1:58 pm

lol! glad i could make you laugh, nancy! man - i look like i’m having a seizure. and there’s a camera IN MY FACE. damned paparazzi! that was WAY funny, though! we fools will do anything for a laugh, eh?
4 Chris // Jan 26, 2004 at 6:21 pm

Those are awesome pics! I love the first one w/ the confetti!
5 tocular.blogspot.com // Jan 27, 2004 at 7:16 am

Hi Rachelle! Great pictures and really cool video!!
6 rachelleb.com // Sep 16, 2004 at 7:06 am

Monkey King Cake

Monkey King Cake, The Loop, Chicago I walked past this Chinese bakery on Tuesday and noticed in the window that they have a cake in the shape of the Monkey King from my nightmares! (sorry for the poor quality…
7 elizabeth claire // Nov 22, 2005 at 10:52 pm

hi rachelle b,
i love your photos
i publish an educational monthly newspaper for people learning english here in the US. i’d love to use your photo of the dragon from chinese new year. would there be a charge for doing this?

I’d also like to publish your wedding photo with NYC in the background in my june issue.

Elizabeth
Editor
Easy English NES.
8 debbie // Jan 4, 2006 at 8:47 am

Great pictures:) Those are Lion Dancers, not dragon dancers. The dragon is much bigger with a dragon head and people making the long body move with poles under it. (I know this because I am part of the parade with my kung fu school every year).

Keep shootin.
9 julie mayne // Jan 24, 2006 at 12:29 pm

thanks for the photos.My son was adopted from china 7 years ago. He finally felt ready to see the parade this year. Your photos helped convince him. People have told him he would be afraid of the fire crackers. I decided not to push until now!!!