Sunset Park New Year’s Event Honors Fire Monkey, With Electeds, Lions, Fireworks & Crowds Kowtowing
The children sang, but so too did the electeds, all saluting Paul P. Mak, the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Chinese American Association (BCA), at the 2016 Sunset Park Chinese New Year’s celebration. Pak and the BCA have organized the event for the past 29 years.
U.S. Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez and Sunset Park City Councilman Carlos Menchaca were among the many public officials — along with New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott M. Stringer — who presented Mak with a plaque honoring his leadership and wishing the audience “Happy New Year” in Chinese.
The District 20 school supervisor also lauded BCA’s “amazing” after-school programs, and students from PS 69, 94, 97, 105, 160, 205, and 206 marched in the parade up Eighth Avenue under their schools’ banners.
