Chinese New Year in Brooklyn
Wednesday February 6, 2008
This Saturday, February 10, help usher in the Year of the Rat and celebrate the Lunar New Year (which actually begins tomorrow) in Sunset Park. The neighborhood will be draped in color as its annual New Year's parade (sponsored by the Brooklyn Chinese American Association) takes over 8th Avenue.
The parade will run from 51st Street to 60th Street and begins at 11am.
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We went to this on Sunday. What a dissappointment!
There was no ‘parade’ in this Chinese New Year Parade.
We waited for 3 hours, the event started over 40 minutes late, with 1hr of children’s performances that were impossible to see from where the BCA would allow the crowds to gather (not in FRONT of the stage, unfortunately), a 10 minute dragon dance that happened in the far left corner almost behind the stage (again, hidden from the view of most of the crowds), then long introductions from politicians, businesses affiliated w/BCA that took 30 minutes, then they lit the fircrackers that went off for 4 minutes in a very dissappointing denoument. We stood in the freezing cold for this badly organized event for over 3 hrs, there was no parade! We will never waste our time going out to this again! The BCA should be embarrassed by their lack of coordination, and poorly managed event. It was a poor use of taxpayers money, since we saw at least 10 officers milling about while the children were signing onstage- definitely an unconscionable waste of THEIR time!