Labor Day saw the 43rd annual West Indian American Day Carnival & Parade, which has been taking place in Brooklyn since the 1960s. The earliest known Carnival street activity in New York was held during the 1940's on the streets of Harlem. During the 1960s, a Trinidadian - Rufus Goring, brought Carnival to Brooklyn. It is the biggest cultural event in New York City, attracting upwards of 3 million people. It is organized by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (http://www.wiadca.com/
). The parade goes along Eastern Parkway from Utica Ave. west to Grand Army Plaza. Olmsted's grand malled parkway is the ideal venue for a parade that is mind boggling in size. This is the closest that America gets to Carnival in Trinidad. Just like in Port-o-Spain, the parade route is filled with flat bed trucks loaded with gigantic generators powering bone-crushing speakers - the base notes rattle your body. The dancers "play mas" dressed in their lavish costumes.
). The parade goes along Eastern Parkway from Utica Ave. west to Grand Army Plaza. Olmsted's grand malled parkway is the ideal venue for a parade that is mind boggling in size. This is the closest that America gets to Carnival in Trinidad. Just like in Port-o-Spain, the parade route is filled with flat bed trucks loaded with gigantic generators powering bone-crushing speakers - the base notes rattle your body. The dancers "play mas" dressed in their lavish costumes.The Parade is also complemented by "J’ouvert," the starting festivities of the Carnival. including the Steel Band Panorama Competition on Saturday night at the Brooklyn Museum. J'ouvert is a contraction of Jour ouvert or daybreak/dawn.
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