By COLlive reporter
Photos by Itzik Roytman
The West Indian-American Day Parade took place Monday, marching down Eastern Parkway from Utica Avenue to Flatbush Avenue, with heavy police presence.
Outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there, along with many of the hopefuls that aim to succeed him – depending on the upcoming primaries on September 10.
For the most part, the Jewish residents of Crown Heights kept away from the parade which celebrated Caribbean food, music and dancing with colorful costumes.
And for good reason. 1010 WINS reported that the Labor Day parade was once again marred by violence, as police were investigating multiple shootings and a stabbing near the parade route.
At least two people were shot, and a police officer suffered minor injuries while making an arrest, officials said. 1010 WINS’ Steve Sandberg notes that shootings and stabbings are nothing new at the parade. Last year, two people were stabbed to death, and two others were shot. In 2011, two police officers were injured by gunfire.
The festivities started with the parade at 11 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m.
The ignorance of you ppl. The Parade was created for the ppl of the west indies, Latin America and South America to celebrate and represent where there from. It is unfortunate that some ppl dont know how to act during this time BUT DONT LET A FEW BAD APPLES SPOIL THE REST. We are all not bad ppl. millions of ppl come out to this parade and if we were such ‘savages’ the results of the parade could have been alot worse. BUT ITS NOT. SO I AM ASKING YOU NICELY TO TRY TO BE A BIT MORE UNDERSTANDING TO… Read more »
Lets face it. No African American in Crown Heights marches in this parade. It is only imports, from East Flatbush and Flatbush.
Why not have the parade each year on Linden Blvd, so that all the people will not have to take cars, busses and walk to Crown Heights?!
I think the West-Indian community probably would prefer their parade be in more prestigious(?) Manhattan, but the politicians who always preach about racial inequality would, no doubt, not allow this parade to move uptown , for obvious reasons; so, stop the pontificating rhetoric about equality, hypocrisy etc. v’diy la’chkimah.
Chabad parades on Eastern Parkway go towards Jerusalem, rom west to east. The goyim parade the other way.
So, Yom Kippur is not messy?
One day a year and you guys constantly complain about everything. I don’t care about the parade, but there is too much whining on controversial topics.
I live on EP and it was a dirty mess last night. At 1 am there were sanitation workers in snow plows gathering all the garbage left in the streets, and this mornings- well I have never seen them so clean!
So happy and grateful they took care of it so fast!
Slight difference – we don’t shoot each other, and we don’t pretend not to know who killed the baby.
Our neighbors dance to the music as they walk through the passage way along Kingston, whereas the cops tell our out of town guests to avoid the parade as they may get hurt or mugged or who knows what.
We celebrate, and everyone can enjoy for a week.
They celebrate, and the funerals last all week.
Small difference. Unless you have a brain.
more “revelers”, but they were revealing too much so pics couldn’t be posted!
and the music is going for how many nights?
with cars from all over and who know what else is going on all over the hood……………..
best to let live…………….
I am 4 blocks from EP but I was woken up very early by noise and all day there was noise from bikes helicopters and people. B”H it’s over.
What a talent that you got so many pick of the parade without any untzniyus women in them, that’s almost impossible!
Looks like there were more policemen than revelers.
the actual parade was over much earlier than usual bh
Nice to have fun.
Lost opportunity.
Yesterday a one-yr-old Afro American boy was shot in Brownsville, Brooklyn NY.
Why wasn’t this opportunity used to make a powerful statement, or demonstration by Brooklyn’s leaders?
A number of Afro-American politicians were at the parade.
Tragic.
“Leaders?’
BS”D
to #5 the parade is here because we live here
today’s marchers do not
better to be a hypocrite with brains than a non hypocrite without any schechel
Brazil is much worst than this.
Chabad Parades are wholesome family events, whereas these parades are dangerous and inappropriate attire is the common gear.
Soon Brooklyn will be a hipster Utopia devoid of all the criminal element that infect it and they will price everyone out including some of us.
Make that complaint to Mayor Bloomberg and see if he cares. Which I think he doesn’t because he if did he would have gotten rid of no pants day.
You mean the men in suits with earplugs in their ears? It’s easy, they filled out an application and went through a process to see if they qualify. Simple.
Why are there shootings?
what about all your chabad parades? hypocrite
Stop this crazy “parade”. Move it to Atlantic ave or to Manhattan where all other parades go. Why should our area be inundated with all sorts of @%&+ and we get stranded on a day off from work?
ah! so that’s why its called: COL for Chabad On Line because for any lubavitcher Chossid it is extremely important to know all about the labor day parade
nice pictures
how r those people near michael bloomberg security guards?????