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Spring Up to Clean Up:
Earth Day in Chinatown

Earth Day in Chinatown! Get out your calendars and spread the word: Sunday, April 22nd is Chinatown Business Improvement District's (BID) inaugural Spring Cleaning Day. Flowers are blooming, so let's get business booming by beautifying Chinatown. Come together with your friends and family to revitalize our community.

WHEN: 10AM-4PM
WHERE: Columbus Park
REGISTRATION: Please sign-up to clean up HERE

Mother's Day Performance @ Carnegie Hall - May 13th

Celebrate this Mother's Day With Tickets to Performances by Master Pianist Tian Jiang as he Commemorates Isaac Stern's 1979 China Visit

33 years after Isaac Stern's China visit, Tian Jiang will perform in Carnegie Hall at Stern Auditorium, commemorating Mr. Stern's memory- a concert for America's youth, to help and inspire them with the power and beauty of classical music -- just as Tian himself was inspired by its power and helped by Isaac Stern. Read more HERE.

Chinatown Cherry Blossom Festival Sponsorship

The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New York invites you to become a participating sponsor for their first annual Chinatown Cherry Blossom Festival to promote our cultural activities. Over the past few years, Confucius Plaza has planted seventy Cherry blossom trees around Bowery and Division St. The festival will be an event filled with performances and celebration. The location of the event will be at the Confucius Plaza square in front of 33 Bowery.

The date will be April 14th, from 10 AM to 5 PM.

Free Zumba Fitness Workshop at Chinatownn

Lunar Are you ready to party yourself into shape? That's exactly what the Zumba program is all about. It's an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance that's moving millions of people toward joy and health..

Chinatown Sports Club is currently offering new Zumba session for spring 2012!!

Registrations are open for Zumbaa spring classsand all the fitness classes aree open to the publicc.

Get Your Tea Here: Sun's Organic Garden in Manhattan's Chinatownn

For serious devotees of Chinese and Japanese tea-and for curious tea drinkers who want to learn more-it's surprisingly hard to find a retailer in Manhattan with both quality selection and helpful service. Sure, you can get some decent Dragonwell at plenty of merchants, but most in this city cater to the Western-style milk-and-sugar set. Not so at Sun's Organic Garden, a source for specialty tea and exotic herbs in the heart of Chinatown..

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A mysterious and exotic view of Chinatown

Alluring and unorthodox, Chinatown was already a big tourist attraction for out-of-towners as well as slumming-it city residents in the early 1900s.

This postcard, dated 1911, really plays it up. The front shows Mott Street; that's the Port Arthur restaurant, opened in 1897. The back of the card reads: "Here are located the joss houses, the civil offices of the colony and lodging houses and restaurants, the gambling rooms and opium-smoking dens."

See source HERE

February 4th: Celebrating Lunar New Year - At the MET, there will be performances, interactive gallery activities, and art-making workshops for all ages. All programs & performances are free with Museum admission. The cafeteria will also be celebrating Lunar New Year with a traditional Chinese menu including soy sauce chicken, pork buns, and more. All are welcome.

The Free Chinatown Food Tour (tip & food costs not included) will take you through Chinatown to sample tasty fried dumplings, tapioca bubble tea, taro-filled sticky buns, candied crabs and much more. The tour has been designed to provide visitors with excellent insight into the neighborhood's culinary possibilities. Take a pan-Asian culinary and cultural journey without leaving Manhattan. Phone: 646-450-6831 Email: info@nycbyfoot.com

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