Lunar New Year parade held in Manhattan’s Chinatown

NEW YORK — New Yorkers continued to celebrate the Lunar New Year on Sunday with a parade in the city’s historic Chinatown.

Asian communities around the world began ringing in the Lunar New Year on February 10, celebrating the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac. Fireworks, parades and other Lunar New Year rituals are aimed at removing bad luck and welcoming prosperity.

In New York, there have already been major celebrations in larger Chinese immigrant enclaves in Queens and Brooklyn. While the symbolic new moon cycle ended earlier this week with the full moon, the Manhattan parade was scheduled for this weekend.

On Sunday, revelers took to the streets of traditional Chinatown for a colorful parade despite frigid temperatures hovering around freezing.