Celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in Brooklyn? Sunset Park's Chinese New Year Festivities parade and festivities are Sunday, January 29.

Meanwhile, check out the 10 Best Chinese Restaurants in Brooklyn: Critics Picks and discover where to find the Best Chinese Dumpling and Noodle Shops in Brooklyn.

Tired of the red boxes of roses and endless heart decorations that descend like a flock of locusts every February? Well, celebrate something else then! There are 17 funny "special days" you can mark in February. How about National Indian Pudding Day? Or National Almond Day? See: 17 Funny February Holidays for Non Valentine's Celebrants

Haven't seen it yet? The  Brooklyn Museum's "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties" ends on January 29, this weekend.  Get details at the Brooklyn Museum.

They've been digging and building and doing mysterious things at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for months, it seems. And finally, they've announced the formal opening date of the new, fabulously "green" Visitors Center. It's May 16th, smack dab in the middle of the most gorgeous time of year at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Cherry blossoms in bloom. Spring bulbs coming up. Trees leafing out.

Find out about the new Visitors Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

So, Brookynites, be proud of the BBG--  and also think about getting a membership that will give you first dibs on their events, festivals, lectures, and environmental and gardening information services. Because, of course, more and more folks, tourist and otherwise, will be coming to Brooklyn, and especially -- with this 20,000 square foot Visitors Center -- to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Oh, and yes. Of course you'll still be able to enter from Eastern Parkway!