March 1, 2026 | Sunday | 28th Lunar New Year Parade and Festival: Year of the Horse

Parade Starts at 1:00pm  in NY  Chinatown.  It starts at Hester and Mott Streets  ending on Broome Street near Sara D. Roosevelt Park.

Festival & Booths: 11:30AM – 3:30PM  Located at Bayard Street between Mulberry and Mott St

Many Asian communities worldwide celebrate the Lunar New Year. In Chinese, it is known as “Chunjie” or Spring Festival, while other names for the new year include Vietnamese Tet, Korean Seollal and Tibetan Losar.

Viewers can expect a colorful celebration featuring floats, marching bands, lion and dragon dancers, exotic cars, multicultural musical performers, magicians and acrobats, and NYC community organizations. This is the biggest winter parade in the East Coast and a national and international tourist attraction.

An outdoor cultural festival will take place at the Sara Roosevelt Park by Grand St & Forsyth St that will feature Arts & Crafts, free promotional gifts, cultural, food, booths and performances by musicians, dancers, and martial artists.

Image Credit: “lion dancers, Mott Street” by oinonio is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.