On May 13, several hundred practitioners held a World Falun Dafa Day and Asian Heritage Fair in Battery Park featuring several booths exhibiting traditional Chinese arts and crafts relating to Falun Dafa. A demonstration of the exercises by little Dafa disciples was especially well received.

Following the fair was a colorful parade that originated in Central Park, traveling down Fifth Avenue and up Central Park West. All the practitioners carried pinwheels, and it was a joyous sight to see the Falun emblem in the middle spinning with the breeze as the practitioners greeted curious onlookers.