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NY Labor Day Parade 2011
Date: Monday 5th September 2011
Location: Eastern Parkway. Brooklyn, NY
Promotions: W.I. American Day Carnival Association
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This West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, just was not the same this year. It seemed to be one of those years...it didn't start too well, nor did it end too well. But people still seemed to have a bit of fun for the time, especially those boys in blue. Masqueraders done spent their money on a costume, and it was the wrap up of a long weekend.
This year we got to party on the parkway a bit late! The parade went until 6pm! Years of good behavior must have paid off!...but people bound to ruin it before it even began. Police patrolled like hawks and wolves, especially due to the violence on the earlier the morning during jouvert. The violence continued throughout the duration of the parade, a few injured due to shootings that occurred during different points of the day.
They cut off the Haitian and Jamaican trucks from going on the parkway this year. Eliminating ... >> READ MORE
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