Celebrate Lunar New Year

Some call it the Year of the Ram, some call it the Year of the Sheep, and some call it the Year of the Goat, but everyone agrees that it’s the Lunar New Year, arriving officially on Feb. 19. The New-York Historical Society will celebrate it this week with family activities on selected days. They include story time on Sunday at 11:30 a.m., with a reading of Dawn Casey’s book “The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac,” for ages 4 through 7; Chinese dance performances at noon and 2 p.m. and a 3 p.m. Chinese paper-cutting demonstration on Monday, for all ages; a reading of William Low’s picture book “Chinatown” and a workshop in making dragon finger puppets, for ages 3 through 5, on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.; and Chinese-themed performances by students of the National Dance Institute on Thursday at 2 p.m.