By COLlive reporter
The annual Labor Day – West Indian Day festivities which take place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights will be taking place differently this year, organizers said.
According to a press release by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, one event will take place virtually on Saturday, September 4th. Later on Saturday, from 7:00pm – 12:00am, an event will take place at the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway.
The annual carnival will take place on Monday beginning at 11 am at the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway, they announced.
The annual event usually leads to the closure of many avenues and streets in the area, leaving the streets around the parade cut off from anyone driving in or out of the neighborhood during those hours.
This year, Labor Day falls on September 6, which is also Erev Rosh Hashanah. This was causing worry to many Jewish residents, as the day before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, is a busy one, during which we prepare for one of the holiest days of the year as well as a holiday.
The parade, which takes place on Labor Day – the first Monday in September – every year, is normally held on the main thoroughfare of Eastern Parkway, from Utica Avenue to Parkside Avenue. Millions of people from around the world descend on the neighborhood, which is closed to traffic for many hours.
A source involved in the parade said that this year’s events will be scaled down and will not interfere with traffic or cause street closures from the early afternoon and on.
A Crown Heights activist told COLlive that parade organizers have reassured him that any events that will take place in the Jewish area of Crown Heights on Monday will be ending by early afternoon, and residents will be able to prepare for the Yom Tov.
Early afternoon? They will be parties all day & night. Let’s hope with zero crime and zero shootings.
1.Would it interesting how our shopping delivery will be delivered on that day to across eastern prkwy area?
2. How we will go to the last minute shopping?
3. Going to shul and then to visit family/friends for a meal, is it safe? Will be there extra patrol, because after parties will be going around
It’s hard to plan too much in advance, but maybe get a head start now, so you won’t have to rush out on Erev RH for last minute errands
When they announced that there will be no Labor Day parade earlier this year, I knew it was too good to be true.
Imagine the uproar if the Yidden announced there will be a parade right before their winter holidays!
There has always been a parade on this day. It’s not their fault that our holiday falls on different days every year. It sounds like the organizers and the NYPD are making efforts to accommodate. Be grateful for that and do your part by planning ahead.
From reading the above comments including words like: crime, shootings, all night parties, safety, patrols – together with Rosh Hashana a Jew should ask himself “Am I living in the right country, the country the God of Israel wants me to live in?” In Israel, there are no goyish parades, late night parties of goyim, worrying if the police will protect the Jews from the violence of the locals. Rosh Hashana is our national AND religious Holy-day; everything is closed and nearly everyone goes to shul. Aliyah today!
Because Israel has none of the above issues ?
Goes to shul [if capable] with a gun. We still need self defense people here. I am happy the tide is turning as the western nations are losing their minds over a germ, but aliyah is for contributing.
There are many resident living past Utica or close to Nostrand yet I have rarely seen police past Troy . Please can the community activist help us out? Thank you very much