West Indian Day Parade

Don’t follow the equinox, or when you can finally pull that lightweight denim jacket out of the closet. The summer ends in Brooklyn every year on a long Labor Day weekend, which announces the opening of public schools (Thursday!) and concludes with J’Ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade on a two-mile, six-lane stretch of…

Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets around Empire Boulevard and Eastern Parkway as J’ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade turned the entire neighborhood into Brooklyn’s biggest party on Monday, September 7.  The official festivities began before dawn, on Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard, with J’Ouvert, a celebration rooted in the emancipation of…

Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of central Brooklyn on Monday for J’Ouvert and the West Indian Parade, the annual dawn-to-dusk celebration of our huge Caribbean-American community. And though, according to reports, a burst of gun violence at the very end of the day left six people injured, for more than twelve hours…