Winter 2012

Photo Opportunities

We need coverage of:

• Occupy Wall Street Events
• Dr. Martin Luther King Day Events
• Three Kings Day Parade in Harlem
• Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration
• Snowstorms
• New York Boat Show
• New York Motorcycle Show
• Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show
• Greek Independence Day Parade
• St. Patrick's Day Parade

Three Kings Day Parade – East Harlem
Friday, January 6 at 10:30am
Begins at 106th Street and Madison Avenue and ends at 115th Street and Park Avenue
This colorful procession is organized by El Museo del Barrio and features costumed school kids, live camels and sheep, floats, twirling dancers and a trio of 12-foot-tall Magi puppets, all accompanied by parrandas, Afro-Venezuelan-influenced drum music. The Three Kings themselves (or at least the local celebrities playing them), will lead this merry band. It's a small community affair, but worth seeing for the live animals and exuberant elementary schoolers who participate.

City Cracking Down on Performers in Washington Square Park

No Performances Allowed

By LISA W. FODERARO
New York Times

Published: December 4, 2011

In other words, it was a typical Sunday afternoon in the Greenwich Village park, where generations of visitors have mingled with musicians, artists, activists, poets and buskers.

Yet this fall, that urban harmony has grown dissonant as the city’s parks department has slapped summonses on the four men and other performers who put out hats or buckets, for vending in an unauthorized location — specifically, within 50 feet of a monument.

The department’s rule, one of many put in place a year ago, was intended to control commerce in the busiest parks. Under the city’s definition, vending covers not only those peddling photographs and ankle bracelets, but also performers who solicit donations.

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