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Special Events Winter Restaurant Week, many of the city’s best restaurants set low fixed-price menus corresponding to the year, Jan, various venues Manhattan Antiques and Collectibles Triple Pier Expo, Feb, Hudson River Chinese New Year, new lunar year celebrations, early Feb, Chinatown Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, more than 2,500 champion dogs compete (website: www.westminsterkennelclub.org), 14-15 Feb, Madison Square Garden New York Flower Show, 15-17 Apr, Hofstra University Arena, Hempstead Art Expo New York, 3-6 Mar, Javits Convention Centre St Patrick’s Day Parade, Irish-American parade, 17 Mar, Fifth Avenue Macy’s Flower Show, Apr, Macy’s department store, Herald Square Tartan Day, 10,000 pipers and drummers march through city streets in celebration of Scotland, 2 Apr, Manhattan Cherry Blossom Festival, the first signs of New York spring (website: www.bbg.org), mid-Apr, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Washington Avenue Ninth Avenue International Food Festival, culinary street fair, begins 21 May, Ninth Avenue DanceAfrica Festival, African and African-American dance festival, 31 May-7 Jun, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Fleet Week, a nautical festival hosted by the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum (website: www.intrepidmuseum.org), Memorial Day weekend, 24-31 May, Hudson Harbor Summerstage, free outdoor concerts, May–Aug, Central Park Summer Restaurant Week, many of the city’s best restaurants set low fixed-price menus corresponding to the year Heritage of Pride, annual lesbian and gay pride march, ending in street festival and dance party, 19-26 Jun, upper Fifth Avenue to the Village Mermaid Parade, the city’s most informal and most lively parade with a nautical theme (website: www.coneyislandusa.com), 25 Jun, Coney Island Fourth of July, annual firework display in celebration of American Independence, 4 Jul, over the East River Mostly Mozart, music festival, 20 Aug-31 Jan 2005, Avery Fisher Hall Bryant Park, free outdoor classic films (website: www.bryantpark.org), Aug, Bryant Park, 42nd Street Feast of San Gennaro, extravaganza of eating, drinking and merry-making, for 11 days starting the second Thurs in Sep, Mulberry Street in Little Italy (for exact days, check website: www.sangennaro.org) Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, exuberant fancy dress procession, 31 Oct, along Sixth Avenue Next Wave Festival, avant-garde dance and music festival, early Oct–Jan, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) New York City Marathon, 7 Nov 2004 and 6 Nov 2005 , starts in Staten Island, finishes in Central Park Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York institution featuring huge hot-air balloons in the shape of cartoon characters, such as Snoopy, the Pink Panther and Betty Boop, Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 145 Street to 34th Street New Year’s Eve, street party, 31 Dec, Times Square |