Year of the Dragon Celebrations, Sunset Park 2012 Photos

The weather cooperated quite a bit earlier today and the celebrations started at 11 o'clock on schedule. This year we had the usual gang of politicians including the Boro President and our senator Chuckie Schumer. There was a crew from Brooklyn Independent television there and there will be video online soon. All in all it was a great day and everybody had fun. Enjoy the pictures...

Lookee here a white tourist in a sea of China...

Now there's a cute face in the crowd.....

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Preview celebrations of Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon in Sunset Park 2012

As I noted in my last post the Year of the Dragon parade will be tomorrow January 29th in front of the Brooklyn Chinese American Association Headquarters at 50th street and 8th Avenue. Today we had a preview celebration that was held in Sunset Park at the basketball court located next to the pool. Because of the limited room in the court inside the building I always skip this one. It's mostly held for the children in any case. I snapped the above shot of the entrance as a preview of what is coming tomorrow. I hope to see you all there and of course, bring your cameras. There will be lot's of color and the weather promises to cooperate with the event with rather temperate temperatures for this time of the year in the mid to high 40's.

Gung Hoi Fat Choi!!



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Chinese Year of the Dragon 2012 is today ! Join the celebration on the 29th..

This year Chinese New Year will be celebrated in Sunset Park next Sunday the 29th. As always the celebrations will start at the corner of  50th street and 8th Avenue. It will include the usual speeches by local politicians and then cultural dances and lion dances. The following stamp was designed by a Brooklyn resident to celebrate this year's New Year.

The shots below were taken in 2007. Hope to see you there this Sunday..

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HAPPY NEW YEAR SUNSET PARK!

It's the start of a new year and our neighborhood seems to have survived very well economically. At least it has fared better than other neighborhoods. In my case the last six months have been a struggle to survive but at least I am still here and there are many posts that I could have posted but time did not permit. We will try to do better this year..

Soon another New Year will be upon us. We in Sunset Park are lucky because we also get to celebrate the Chinese New Year as well.

We thus look forward to an exiting year in Sunset Park..