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Photos: Colors Fly At Joyous Queens Holi Festival
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Published Mar 13, 2017
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A frigid weekend with a blizzard on the horizon did nothing to diminish Sunday afternoon's Holi Phagwa festivities in Queens. The springtime Hindu "Festival of Colors" was observed with typical exuberance over in Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park (a.k.a. Smokey Oval park) in Richmond Hill, where thousands of revelers gathered after a parade to unleash a massive amount of colorful powders all over each other.
According to Hindu tradition, the annual festival signifies the victory of good over evil, as well as the arrival of spring, in case you were wondering why so much good news is happening right now and why it suddenly feels like spring. Here's video from last year's Holi celebration in the Bronx, which happens this year in May and looks like a total blast.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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