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Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Flushing Skyview Center
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
CMOHAMED@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
The Shops at Skyview in Flushing
is bringing back its beloved colorful
Lunar New Year festivities on Saturday,
Jan. 29, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the
Shops at Skyview did not host the event
in 2020 or 2021 out of safety and abundance
of caution for the community,
according to Rishika Mahtani, director
of Shopping Center Marketing for
ShopCore Properties.
“We have partnered once again with
the New York Chinese Cultural Center
to host traditional lion dance performances
and the Queens Botanical
Garden will host cherry blossom crafts
for children,” Mahtani said.
Select businesses at Skyview will also
be distributing the coveted red envelopes
to their customers. According
to Mahtani, they plan to have a “wish
tree” for the community to write wishes
and prosperous notes for the New Year
which will be on display at the shopping
center.
The Shops at Skyview will also participate
in Flushing’s annual Lunar New
Year parade on Saturday, Feb. 5.
“We are thrilled to be a part of the
Chip City celebrates grand opening of cookie shop in Forest Hills
Photo courtesy of Chip City
The rainbow cookie
parade this year and so excited to celebrate
the commencement of the New
Year with our community,” Mahtani said.
The Shops at Skyview is a multilevel
shopping destination located at Level
4 near F21 Red. The center includes
a growing mix of national retailers
and local favorites, including leading
brands such as Target, Uniqlo, Sky-
Foods, Marshalls and locals like Gong
Photo courtesy of Shops at Skyview
Cha and Royal Beauty.
For more information about The
Shops at Skyview upcoming Lunar New
Year event visit theshopsatskyviewny.
com. Admission is free.
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
CMOHAMED@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Chip City, which was founded in Astoria
and is known for its large, ooey-gooey,
fl avorful cookies, opened its 10th location
in Forest Hills on Friday, Jan. 14.
During its opening, customers got a
sneak peek at a new cookie the shop is
launching with Orville Redenbacher’s,
the Chocolate Popcorn Crunch, which will
only be available at the Forest Hills location
at 72-34 Austin St.
Th e cookie was scheduled to debut
across all 10 of Chip City’s locations on
Jan. 19 in honor of National Popcorn Day.
In addition to its grand opening, Chip City
also gave free cookies — excluding the
chocolate popcorn crunch cookie — to
the fi rst 100 customers.
Th e shop off ers four fl avors of Chip
City’s famous, fully loaded cookies, which
will change daily so customers can enjoy
a variety of cookies throughout the week.
“We have frequented Austin Street in
Forest Hills with our Chip City truck on
a weekly basis for a while now. Th e weekly
enthusiasm and excitement around our
cookies from the Forest Hills community
was a sign that we should explore a brickand
mortar location in the area,” said Peter
Phillips, CEO and co-founder of Chip City.
“We’re so excited to be a part of a new community
in Queens.”
Chip City was established in Astoria
in July 2017, and has expanded citywide
with locations in Long Island City and
Sunnyside.
It began as a hobby between two childhood
friends as they sought to recreate
the simple taste of their childhood. What
began as a fun challenge to see who could
create the best cookie turned into the Chip
City people know and love today.
Th e shop is known for their large, delicious
cookies in 40-plus fl avors.
According to Phillips, the inspiration for
Chip City’s cookies stem from nostalgic
fl avors from classic desserts to childhood
treats.
Phillips says they’re inspired by iconic
treats like the New York black and white
cookie, good humor ice cream fl avor, hot
fudge sundae, classic baklava, Italian-
American rainbow cookie, s’mores, apple
pie, peanut butter jelly sandwich and more.
Each week the Chip City daily menu is
posted on their Instagram and website so
people can plan out what days they want to
visit to get their favorite fl avors.
Some classics include chocolate chip,
blueberry cheesecake, s’mores, funfetti,
oatmeal apple pie and peanut butter chocolate.
Some specialty fl avors include strawberry
shortcake, rainbow cookie, white and
black cookie and cinnamon roll.
Chip City is open from 11 a.m. to 10
p.m. seven days a week. Although Chip
City only has brick-and-mortar locations
in NYC, they also ship to 20-plus states
across the country.
A performance rings in the Lunar New Year at The Shops at Skyview in Flushing.
Photo courtesy of Chip City
The s’mores cookie is one of Chip City’s classic off erings.
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