February 14h Chinatown, NYC
This Valentine's day brought some sexy back to our great city. In China Town, however the celebration of love was untied to what average awestruck Americans do on Feb. 14th. No red heart price tags or cupid arrow sales. It was everyday Chinatown with one key detail that brought love nonetheless. The lonely Dragon.
Somebody in Staten Island remembered the Chinese New Year this "V Day" and brought their pet dragon to dance on the streets of Chinatown among the people. A crowd followed it as it roared across Canal St. with glorious war drums announcing the approach of greatness.
The party poppers went wild at 1:00pm on Chrystie St. when the Staten Island Lions rode into town with the beast, a chariot and the spirit that only the coming year of the tiger could bring. The 100s of car stopping followers enjoyed watching the dragon stop at a seafood market and flip oranges between the owner and the audience.
Groups of people followed as the dragon wandered the streets and grew from a group to a gaggle and from that to a gathering. A new holiday took Chinatown by storm and set the stage for all of the other dragons that would follow suit and tear down the streets in this lower portion of Manhattan later on in the day.
The Staten Island Lions had a dragon, a fierce and talented dragon and this dragon... this dragon walked alone. He in sighted a riot and in doing so sparked the official start of the Chinese New Year in Chinatown 2010.
From poverty to paradise... on the shoulders of the dragon.
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