One of the city’s largest parades, the annual carnival celebrates Caribbean culture, music and history.
Dancers clad in sequined bikinis and feathered tiaras are expected to converge on Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway starting at 11 a.m. on Monday for the annual West Indian Day Parade, the culmination of a
Over a million people are expected to participate in the parade and surrounding events, according to organizer Anne Rhea Smith, first vice president of the West Indian American Day Carnival Association. “The judges judge on theme, how you match your theme with the costume and the presentation,” Smith said. “They also match it with the energy of the presentation, how the masqueraders work together to really excite the audience and display their heritage.”Officially, the West Indian Day Parade runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday. However, the parade caps a week of events that includes Steel Panorama and J’Ouvert.
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