Daytime scene on a street in a culturally diverse City during a Lunar New Year Parade, facing down the street of the main parade route; the celebration is for the Year of the Horse (technically the Fire Horse) and a group of local business people open the parade carrying a red banner stretching the entire width of the street, reading "2026 Lunar New Year Parade" and the same in Simplified Mandarin characters; thousands of people line the streets in attendance, joyfullu shouting "Xin Nian Kuai Le" - which translates to "Happy New Year" or, more accurately, "Prosperous New Year"; buildings, mostly commercial, line Main Street as the parade continues out to the horizon.

Daytime scene on a street in a culturally diverse City during a Lunar New Year Parade, facing the parade and one of its performers - a beautiful woman in a red dress, dancing so gracefully with a bright red parasol; she will make you fall in love; following along with the beautiful dancer are families of people from the same group - one pushing a cart with the speaker playing traditional Chinese music; onlookers crowd the sidewalk, packed-in tight.

Daytime scene on a street in a culturally diverse City during a Lunar New Year Parade, facing down the street of the main parade route; the celebration is for the Year of the Horse (technically the Fire Horse) and a local Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) group carrying a large blue and gold banner that reads "Welcome Spring" (迎春) — the large characters on the left and right sides; in the middle, it says "Falun Dafa" (法輪大法) with additional text reading "Sincerely recite 'Falun Dafa is good' to receive blessings" (真心得福祥), along with the character 福 (meaning "Fortune/Blessing") in the gold circle; the all-female group is dressed in intricately-detailed pink and rose-colored costumes, with the dancers behind the group leaders wearing tutu-like costumes resembling giant water lilies; it is a beautiful sight as they pass under a bridge at the beginning of the parade route.

Daytime scene on a street in a culturally diverse City during a Lunar New Year Parade, facing down the street of the main parade route; the celebration is for the Year of the Horse (technically the Fire Horse) and a group from the Global Tuidang Center carries a banner and a hundred-foot-long, yellow, paper dragon, which snakes across the street, gyrating to the sound of traditional drums; in the foreground, a big, yellow lion greets the onlookers who pet its nose for good luck; children stare in awe and delight; thousands of people line the streets in attendance, joyfullu shouting "Xin Nian Kuai Le" - which translates to "Happy New Year" or, more accurately, "Prosperous New Year."

New York photo of the day, Pt. 1.
Queens.
46°F (8° C), mostly cloudy.
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