Chinese New Year Firecracker Festival

CHINATOWN, NY — It's time for one of NYC's best annual celebrations: The Lunar New Year’s Parade and Firecracker Ceremony in Chinatown!

The parade, which takes place on Saturday, Jan. 28, the first day of the Chinese New Year, will start at the intersection of Mott and Canal St., then head towards the Manhattan Bridge via East Broadway, finishing up on Eldridge and Forsyth St. next to Sara D. Roosevelt Park.

Things get going at 11am, with the fireworks scheduled for noon.

And there will be plenty of other celebration taking place throughout lower Manhattan to ring in the new year, so be sure to stay up on all of it.

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Check out the map of the Lower East Side parade below:

And don't forget that Lunar New Year celebrations take place in NYC's other Chinatowns too. Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Flushing, Queens are all going to have exciting activities and delicious food to bring in the year of the rooster.

Lead Image via Creative Commons; map via.