Category Archives: Parade

The Labor Day Parade is such a bittersweet time of the year.  On the one hand it is a time to celebrate the Caribbean culture and on the other hand since the parade falls on September 1st–summer is a wrap!  For those students who have not returned to school yet, they will be returning to school in the next couple of days.  While most adults have taken their summer vacations.  So as a last hurrah of the summer, many come and jump up and down to the sounds of the Caribbean and join in the excitement of the parade down Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway.

If you are going to have a parade. you pray that the weather is as beautiful as it was for the 41^st Annual Labor Day Carnival Parade aka the West Indian American Day Parade.  Before the parade kicked off Monday morning,  parade organizers, sponsors, elected officials and special invited guest were part of a pre-parade ceremony. 

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