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While Chinatown's annual Chinese New Year Parade won't be until next weekend, there are still plenty of activities to celebrate the year 4705. If you're heading to Chinatown tomorrow (New Year's Day), be sure to head over to Chatham Square (the intersection of Bowery, Mott and East Broadway) for the New Year’s Day Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival. For the first time since the city banned fireworks (and firecrackers), there will be real firecrackers in Chinatown. A "controlled" display of 300,000 firecrackers will go off in Chatham Square between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. We can honestly say that you haven't experienced a Chinese New Year until your ears ring from firecrackers. Sunday's events don't stop with the firecrackers either. There will also be fireworks in Chinatown's Columbus Park (Mulberry and Baxter Street)at 7 p.m. The fireworks display will reportedly reach 10 stories high.
Explore Chinatown has more events involving the Lunar New Year and check out our Tidbits for some non-Chinese dining options to celebrate the Year of the Pig. Gothamist will be celebrating with some of the more traditional food we mentioned yesterday.
Photo of last year's Chinatown New Year's Parade by Tien Mao
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it's a shame ny banned firecrackers, except for certain instances. chinese new year has never been the same since the ban. i remember when i was a kid, there used to be firecrackers four stories high, with the lions dancing underneath them. glory days..
Happy New Year!
there's always Boston and Philly but it's not the same. Blame giuliani.
Oink Oink Oink! --> Happy New Year!