celebrating lunar new year

NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli holds an annual Lunar New Year Celebration honoring prominent Asian-Americans who are civic-minded.

This year five women were honored, including Joanne Kwong, President, Pearl River Mart and an Upper West Side resident.

Pearl River Mart has been a NYC institution offering its wide variety of imported Asian goods. Their flagship store is now in Tribeca.

The “Year of the Pig” festivities were held at Grand St. Settlement’s new facility on the Lower East Side.