Galloping into the Year of the Horse

... a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: Museum of the Chinese in America (MOCA), 215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013 15th CHINATOWN LUNAR NEW YEAR PARADE & FESTIVAL Date: Sunday, February 2nd, 2014 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Starts at Little Italy and goes ...

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8 million stories in the naked city: Most have nothing to do with Super Bowl

I don't get up on the "True New Yorker" high horse very often, so my apologies in advance.

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NY legislators back Lunar New Year school closings

A saleswoman holds Chinese lanterns for a customer in front of a department store on the eve of Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district of Binondo Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 in the Philippines.

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Knockoff Super Bowl gear tough to find, and not just because of government crackdown

... on American small businesses." There are many small businesses three miles south of Times Square. The shops of Chinatown are so notorious for knockoff goods that when Robert Perez, the New York Director of Field Operations for U.S. Customs and ...

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NYC Food Events for the Weekend and Beyond

This weekend isn't just about football: tomorrow marks the start of the Lunar New Year, too.

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Comment Of The Day: 'Instead of expanding yet again on...

... more likely downtown or Brooklyn where the art world has slowly migrated in the last 30 years: Chelsea, LES/Chinatown and, though a bit adventurous for MOMA, in Bushwick. If I were them I would build an entirely new PS1 museum focusing on ...

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The Best Ethnic Grocery Stores in NYC

New Yorkers are blessed with such a variety of dining options , so they may overlook the opportunity to actually use their kitchens.

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RedFarm Comes Home to the Upper West Side

... food. The critics of RedFarm are the same folks who have criticized the likes of Shun Lee Palace, Buddakan, and Chinatown Brasserie. The latter is where Ed Schoenfeld and chef Joe Ng first perfected the formula of fancy ingredient, refined ...

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Eight Rock Hill people accused of gunrunning to appear in N.Y. court

... Girl" Jones, 23, tried to assemble a Norinco SKS assault rifle by watching a cellphone video while standing on a Chinatown street corner in the middle of the day. Jones faces five felony gun charges. She is being held without bond at a New York ...

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Super Bowl: 17 Things In Nyc's Lineup

... shows such as "Pippin" and "Waiting for Godot." Happy New Year: It's the Year of the Horse, and the 15th annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade & Festival will kick off at 1 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday at Mott and Hester streets, with colorful floats, ...

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New York: Peter Poon Takes Manhattan

... . Poon is already at work on the Hyatt Place Times Square on 41st Street, as well as the Hotel Bowery and another Chinatown hotel at 75 East Broadway, and a Fairfield Inn at South Street Seaport. His website is also listing a "Sharma Hotel" in the ...

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Maison Kitsune Unveils SS14' Lookbook Ft. Sky Ferreira

During this time of year, many designers and labels look forward to the Spring and in doing so giving audience a sneak preview of what's to come.

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Tips to tourists in town for Super Bowl XLVIII

... or somebody will get there before you. Not hard to get into any spot in Manhattan's Chinatown, (there are now six Chinatown neighborhoods scattered in the five boroughs) for dim sum Sunday morning, and if you don't mind being shoved and yelled at, ...

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New low for Instagram stupidity as rapper tips cops in record-breaking gun bust

We knew that people had it coming when they were advertising weed, guns, and other types of illegal stuff on Instagram , but in no way did we expect it to lead to New York City's largest gun bust in history.

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Decatur among great places for business travelers

... theater, which bills itself as "America's oldest and largest outdoor musical theater." The association says Chinatown is a cultural capital and an immigrant gateway. "The unique sense of place found within this ethnic enclave comes not only from the ...

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Better and better

... the real story? You'll find a short item here , for example, by associate editor Lori Anne Tomonari, looking into Chinatown and downtown crime trends. I wanted to know what the real story was, when a weekday stabbing death in front of the Longs I ...

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30 great places for business travelers

... theater, which bills itself as "America's oldest and largest outdoor musical theater." The association says Chinatown is a cultural capital and an immigrant gateway. "The unique sense of place found within this ethnic enclave comes not only from the ...

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New York City, the center of the universe

Katz's Deli, at 125 years old, is still turning out huge sandwhiches and is a must stop for politicians and tourists in New York.

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Macya s Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014

... Macy's will also help sponsor two of the nation's largest Lunar New Year events including the 2014 Lunar New Year Chinatown Parade and Festival in New York on Feb. 4 and San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festival and Parade on Feb. 15. Macy's ...

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Macya s Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014

... Macy's will also help sponsor two of the nation's largest Lunar New Year events including the 2014 Lunar New Year Chinatown Parade and Festival in New York on Feb. 4 and San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festival and Parade on Feb. 15. Macy's ...

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Celebrate Sailor Jerry's 103rd birthday on January 14th with a free tattoo

... Mike Malone, whose professional name was Rollo Banks, bought Collins' company, China Sea Tattoo, in the Chinatown section of Honolulu, Hawaii. Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins is widely recognized as the godfather of the American tattoo, and this ...

http://www.examiner.com/article/celebrate-sailor-jerry-s-103rd-birthday-on-january-14th-with-a-free-tattoo?cid=rss

Getting caught with your pants down has never been so much fun

... clothes aboard transit. "Oh my god, you don't have any pants on," said a bemused woman who got on at Main Street/Chinatown station, unaware of the choreographed event organized by Vancouver Improv Anywhere. Most passengers tried to maintain a ...

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The new Chinatown, delectably diverse

The original Dim Sum Garden was a definitive Chinatown dumpling dive, a no-frills storefront under the 11th Street tunnel where devotees braved bus fumes and panhandlers for xiao long bao, the broth-filled Shanghai wonders also known as "soup dumplings."

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20140112_The_new_Chinatown__delectably_diverse.html

Is New York’s New Mayor De Blasio Really a Lefty or Just Another Progressive Poseur?

There is no question but that New York's new mayor, Bill De Blasio, owes his landslide victory in the November election to the Occupy Movement.

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Schumer pushes for $175M to storm-proof NYCHA buildings

Sen. Chuck Schumer began pushing on Friday for $175 million to storm-proof Housing Authority buildings whacked by Hurricane Sandy, but he's worried about how the troubled agency will spend it.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/schumer-pushes-175m-storm-proof-nycha-buildings-article-1.1575978

Super Bowl-bound? Touchdown in New York first

An artist's rendering of the toboggan run that will be set up in New York's Super Bowl Boulevard ahead of the Super Bowl in New Jersey on February 2nd.

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New York City attractions beckon Super Bowl visitors to cross Hudson River

This Jan. 7, 2014 photo provided by the ChildrenA s Museum of Manhattan shows a child running through an interactive NFL-themed exhibit at the museum, as museum staffer Prince Baron looks on in New York.

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The Port Authority of NY/NJ Is Doing Fort Lee to Philadelphia Every Day

... PANYNJ crossings. And with Greyhound, Peter Pan, their subsidiaries BoltBus and Yo!, Megabus, and the resurgent Chinatown carriers all looking like they're here to stay, and Amtrak fares likely to remain out of reach for the bottom tiers of the ...

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Toro's Ken Oringer Celebrates New Year's and a Two-Star Times Review With Champagne and Caviar

"I won't have a week the rest of the year that will be like this past week," says Ken Oringer, the Boston-based chef and restaurateur who now has a bona fide hit in New York.

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Waterside Plaza celebrates its 40th anniversary

... his two sons. They wanted to stay on the Upper West Side, but one night in April they went out for a dinner in Chinatown and came away with a lot more than lo mein and fried rice. On the drive home up the FDR, at a crook in the East River in the ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/waterside-plaza-celebrates-40th-anniversary-article-1.1565036

Video: The Clay Pot Rice King of Chinatown

Editor's Note: Welcome to a new episode of 1 Minute Meal , a series of video snapshots documenting the places, people, and foods that make New York a vibrant food community.

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