New York Persian Cultural Center | NYPC

New York Persian Cultural Center, also in business as New York Persian Center, is a cultural center and a house of brands. NYPC (in short) is an enlarged community-based organization that connects Persians (Iranians, Afghans, and Tajiks) and New Yorkers. As a foundation, we provide language classes, cooking, and dancing workshops and events. Through our events, we create unique experiences for New Yorkers based on Persian cultures such as dance parties, outdoor games, or movie screenings.

Logo: Our logo simply contains four colors: New York’s blue and orange and the two colors that all three flags of Persian countries share, green and red. (Organization of Iranian American)

Although we are located in New York our customers have been from a variety of places such as the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey, Iran and etc. In addition to this, we are the first and only official and licensed tour guide in Farsi and our clients are from all around the world.

We are able to welcome walk-ins during our business hours (Monday -Thursday between 10 AM – 6 PM), but we would prefer to meet you by setting an appointment. Our address is:  New York Persian Center, 222 Broadway, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10038

Solmaz Sharif, Co-Founder, and President of NYPC.

New York Persian Cultural Center is founded by Solmaz Sharif, an Iranian-American journalist. She has been living in NYC since 2007 and she started NYPC to introduce her region’s culture to fellow New Yorkers. Email: solmaz@ nypersiancenter.org

Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, Co-Founder, COO, and CFO of NYPC. He is a journalist who has served as a reporter, editor, editor-in-chief, and writer for multiple prints and online publications in Iran and the United States. As an analyst and Iran expert and author of several books (in Persian), he has often been quoted or featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Voice of America, and other media sources. In addition to his journalistic background, he is also a researcher that was published several books. Roozbeh is also a licensed NY Tour Guide that speaks Persian and wrote the only NYC Tourism Guide for Persian speaker.

Email: roozbeh@ nypersiancenter.org