Saturday, September 3, 2022. New York City – Because of COVID-19, for the first time since 2019, the West Indian-American Day Carnival and Parade returns to Brooklyn, New York City.
New York Carnival Week (NYCW) is back to the streets of Brooklyn after two years. The Carnival is presented by West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) from Thursday, September 1st – Monday, September 5th.
J’Ouvert takes place on Monday, September 5, 2022, from 6 A.M. to 11 A.M. and runs on Flatbush Avenue beginning on Grand Army Plaza and ending at Nostrand Ave and Rutland Ave.
J’Ouvert is the official start of carnival, at dawn on September 5. People who participate in J’Ouvert dance to the sounds of steel drums.
The video below is from 2010. Watch the boy playing the steel drums. He is great. People were happy dancing.
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The Labor Day Parade or West Indian Day Carnival or Caribbean parade is on Monday, September 5, 2022. It is from 11 A. M. to 6 P. M..
The parade runs down Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, beginning on Ralph Avenue and Eastern Parkway and ends at Grand Army Plaza. It is free and it is beautiful.
The parade “gathers around two million people and is one of the most festive and celebrated event,” say wiadcacarnival.org, the organizers.
News12 says, “West Indian Day Parade names 1st ever transgender Grand Marshall. Ms. Victoria Cruz, a lifelong Brooklyn native and paradegoer with Puerto Rican roots, is ready to take on the honor of Grand Marshall.”
“Lamont Jesse, who is a part of the West Indian Day Parade Association, brought Cruz to the attention of everyone he knew, knowing she would be a great fit,” adds News12.
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According to www.6sqft.com, the following streets will be fully closed for the J’ouvert and West Indian American Labor Day Parade and Festival on Monday, September 5, 2022.
* Grand Army Plaza (Entire Circle).
* Buffalo Avenue between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenue.
* Rochester Avenue between East New York Avenue and Sterling Place.
* Ralph Avenue between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenue.
* East New York Avenue between Howard Avenue and Utica Avenue.
* Eastern Parkway between Howard Avenue and Grand Army Plaza.
* Washington Avenue between Sterling Place and Lincoln Road.
* Flatbush Avenue between Grand Army Plaza and Caton Avenue.
* Ocean Avenue between Empire Boulevard and Parkside Avenue.
* Butler Place between Grand Army Plaza and Sterling Place.
* St. John’s Place between Underhill Avenue and Grand Army Plaza.
* Rockaway Parkway between East New York Avenue and Rutland Road.
* Parkside Avenue between Park Circle and Flatbush Avenue.
* Bedford Avenue between Eastern Parkway and Empire Boulevard.
* Empire Boulevard between Flatbush Avenue and Nostrand Avenue.
* Nostrand Avenue between Empire Boulevard and Linden Boulevard.
* Lincoln Place between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenue.
According to www.caribbeanlife.com, “WIADCA said four 2022 New York Carnival Grand Marshals will make history by “walking Brooklyn’s Cultural Row in solidarity to commemorate WIADCA’s 55th Anniversary.”
They are: Puerto Rican Victoria Cruz, LGBTQ Rights activist; Ingrid Lewis-Martin, chief advisor to Mayor Eric Adams, of Barbados and Panama roots; Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett, of the US Virgin Islands; and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, whose parents hail from the Dominican Republic.
Several cultural groups will also participate, including Braata Productions (Jonkanoo); Garifuna Spiritual Enrichment Society; and Day of Independence Committee of Panamanians in NY, Inc.”
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Shamira Ibrahim writes on gothamist.com, “The upcoming Labor Day weekend marks the first in-person West Indian Day parade in three years, and longtime residents of Little Caribbean in Flatbush and neighboring Crown Heights find themselves facing a drastically different Brooklyn than the one they have come to call home.”
Shamira adds, “Rapid gentrification has shifted the natural rhythm of a bustling working-class community in Flatbush and its slow buildup into parade season. The parade is an export of Caribbean carnival culture that has been preserved by their multigenerational immigrant communities since the early 1900s, and ultimately integrated into an indelible part of Brooklyn’s Black infrastructure. What was once a universally anticipated culmination of a magical Brooklyn summer in the community is now the source of ongoing anxiety. Noise complaints have been on the rise in the last decade and violent incidents on Labor Day tend to lead stories about the weekend’s events, which residents say stigmatizes the long-standing celebrations and dampens excitement around one of the biggest parades in the city.”
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