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The main event is the West Indian Day Parade (also known as simply the Labor Day Parade), which attracts between one and three million participants. [1] The spectators and participators watch and follow the parade on its route along Eastern Parkway .
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade kicked off Monday with thousands of revelers dancing and marching through Brooklyn in one of the world’s largest celebrations ...
Eastern Parkway is the route of the West Indian Day Parade, a festive annual celebration taking place during J'ouvert, around Labor Day. [30] [271] The parade, which has been held on Eastern Parkway since c. 1968, [272] attracts between one and three million participants each year.
The West Indian Day Parade and night of revelry that precede it, known as J’Ouvert, have historically been plagued by gun violence, though it appeared to subside last year, when there were three ...
One of the five people who were shot at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade has died, police said Tuesday. “This was not random,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said after the ...
According to the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, over 3.5 million people participate in the parade each year. [36] Crown Heights also contains a significant number of Hasidic Jews. [37] It is the location of the Worldwide Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish movement, at 770 Eastern Parkway.
First responders tend to a man injured during a shooting at the West Indian Parade in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 2024.
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