Dragon Boat Festival In NY This Weekend Aims To Offer Asian Fun Without Politics
Kong Dragon Boat Festival to be held at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park this weekend.Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York
Barely a day goes by without a new sign of strain in government ties between the U.S. and China. A popular dragon boat festival now in its 31st year organized by a Hong Kong group in New York this Saturday and Sunday aims to offer spirited Asian fun and networking without the political noise.
The 2023 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival expects to attract 20,000 viewers a day to the shores of Meadow Lake in New York City’s Queens district on Aug. 12-13, making it among the largest multicultural events this year in the U.S. city with the largest Chinese American population – some 623,000 members in 2020, according to census data. Adding in New Yorkers ...