The yearly cherry blossom celebrations at Roosevelt Island, happening at Four Freedoms Park, Southpoint, and other locations, began in 2011 as a fundraising effort for those affected by the devastating tsunami that hit Japan that year. But it’s since become a neighborhood tradition with performances, a tea ceremony, and picnics. This year, the festivities will include a community folk dance lesson, as well as performances by the IchiFuji-kai Dance Association and RIJA Yosakoi Dancers.

There are a few spots within Central Park where you can see cherry blossoms, but there’s a particularly high concentration around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, which is also an excellent spot for a springtime stroll. Take a tour on April 13 to learn more about the flowering trees.

Riverside Park’s Cherry Walk stretches along the Hudson River from 100th to 125th street. The 700 trees planted in the park were a gift from the Committee of Japanese Residents of New York in 1909—and some of those were also planted in Washington D.C.’s Tidal Basin.

Flushing’s Lewis Latimer House Museum has its own cherry garden that will be open for free during blossom season, on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays during regular museum hours. While you’re there, tour the house itself, which was built in the late 1800s and the home of African-American inventor Lewis Howard Latimer from 1903 until 1928. It’s now part of the Historic House Trust.

The cherry trees at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park are blooming at the former World Fair’s site, adorning the areas surrounding the Unisphere, the Queens Museum, and the Queens Theatre. Organized by the Japanese American Association of New York, this year’s Sakura Matsuri festival will include a tea ceremony demonstration, Hanagasa Ondo parade, and Japanese drums performance.

Head to Flushing, where the Cherry Circle at the Queens Botanical Garden—located near its entrance at Main Street—will soon be covered in colorful flowers.

According to the city parks department, the north side of Silver Lake—located within this expansive Staten Island Park—has lots of blooming cherry and crabapple trees.

At the Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden—one of two authentic classical Chinese gardens in the country, according to its website—there are cherry trees but also redbuds; magnolia, jasmine, and mahonia flowers. Fun fact: in the garden’s upper pavilion, there is a mosaic built off rice bowl broken pieces, representing China, and broken beer bottles, representing the U.S.