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Yesterday may have been a big TV day, but it was also a gorgeous day to be outside. Those who flocked to Chinatown to see the annual Lunar New Year Parade were rewarded with a vibrant procession of dragons, lions, and performers. Enjoy readers' photographs of the festivities!

Tomorrow, you can celebrate the Year of the Ox by heading to Chinatown for the annual Lunar New Year Parade. It starts at noon or 1 p.m. (Explore Chinatown says the former, Better Chinatown Society the latter)—and you might as well go early and get dim sum!— the route begins at Mott & Hester Streets, going down Mott Street to Chatham Square, E. Broadway and Chrystie Street. There's also a cultural festival starting at 11:30 a.m. at Grand & Chrystie Street. Gong hei fat choi!

The Better Chinatown Society says that next Sunday's Lunar New Year Parade will honor the two children who were killed when an unoccupied van struck them last week. The group's president Steve Lin told Newsday that parade organizers were meeting to discuss how to recognize the kids, 4-year-old Hayley Ng and 3-year-old Diego Martinez. Little Hayley and Diego were buried yesterday; the Daily News reports that Diego's father Francisco Martinez, "who sobbed and clutched another one of his son's toys, a stuffed blue monkey," is an EMT assigned to Chinatown—he was "off duty the day of the accident, but might have responded to the accident if he'd been on duty." Yesterday, Diego's mother said the day care program didn't contact her about the accident, and mourned how her son died in the hospital alone.