New York Carnival Parade Returns to Brooklyn on Labor Day

West Indian Day Parade Returns To Brooklyn: What To Know

Brooklyn's biggest Caribbean celebration will bring major changes to streets, transit and access around Eastern Parkway.

How to get around as J'Ouvert, West Indian American Day parade take over Brooklyn

Participants wear colorful costumes in the annual West Indian Day parade on Sept. 4, 2023. It's one of the largest cultural celebrations of the year in New York City. [ more › ]

New York Carnival Parade returns to Brooklyn on Labor Day

The New York Carnival Parade, known as the West Indian Day Parade, marches down Eastern Parkway on Labor Day. Watch live on ABC7NY from 1 to 4 p.m.

Play Mas! Massive West Indian American Caribbean Parade set to take over Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway

Ten of thousands of revelers and masqueraders and millions of spectators are expected on Monday, Labor Day, to converge on Brooklyn’s sprawling Eastern Parkway for the 59th annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade. The massive parade, considered the largest Caribbean parade in North America, comprises gigantic and miniature costumes worn by skimpy-clad masqueraders, begins …

Carib News Editorial – Carnival The Cultural Equalizer

Every Labor Day, Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn is transformed. The broad boulevard becomes a river of music, color, movement, food, flags, costumes and humanity as Caribbean Carnival takes possession of the street. Yet what happens there is more than spectacle and more than celebration. For those precious hours, Carnival creates something increasingly rare in modern […]