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NYC Parades

NYC parades are America’s biggest cultural celebrations.

Parades originated as religious or military processions. Latin parades are influenced by Carnival, patron saint festivals, and Cuban Guaracha musical theatre traditions. In Puerto Rico, Guaracha becomes the Parranda which is a popular Christmas parade of friends and family.

NYC Parade News

The Jackson Heights Halloween Parade marches down 37th Avenue from 89th St to 76th St on Halloween Sun, Oct 31 at 12pm.

The 48th Village Halloween Parade marches up Sixth Avenue on Halloween Sun, Oct 31 at 7pm. Parade lineup is at 6:30pm.

Coming Soon

The 2021 Veterans Day Parade marches up Fifth Avenue on Veterans Day, Thursday, November 11. uwvc.org

The 95th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Inflation is around the Museum of Natural History in the Upper East Side on Wed, Nov 24. Time TBD.

The 95th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade marches from the North Pole to Macy’s in Herald Square on Thanksgiving Day, Thu, Nov 25 from 9am to 12noon. Watch it on NBC 4. macys.com

Festivals

Previous NYC Parades

The Dia de los Muertos Parade: A Community Celebration of Remembrance marches with Mariachis from the Queens Museum through Flushing Meadows Corona Park to Corona Plaza on Fri, Oct 29. Lineup 3pm for a 4:30pm parade. FREE. 🇲🇽

The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is at the East River Amphitheater on Sat, Oct 23 from 12-3pm. tompkinssquaredogrun.com

The 77th Columbus Day Parade is Columbus Day, Mon, Oct 11. 🇮🇹🇪🇸

The 2021 Hispanic Day Parade is officially cancelled this year.

The 26th Panamanian Parade 2021 is live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12pm. FREE 🇵🇦

Everyone Loves a Parade

Latin parades are influenced by Carnival, New Orleans funeral processions and guaracha traditions too.

Guaracha was a naughty Cuban theater tradition that was often performed in bars and would carry on into the streets. Think conga line. In Puerto Rico, the parranda Christmas caroling tradition evolved from guaracha. Today the word means to have a wild party.

Many Latin parades end at a street fair.

Fifth Avenue and Lower Broadway are among the world’s most famous parade locations. The National Puerto Rican Day Parade is the biggest cultural celebration in the United States.

A Season of NYC Parades

Everybody loves a parade and New York City is full of them. Parades bring together people, politicians and community organizations.

January Parades

  • El Museo del Barrio Three Kings Day Parade ~ Around January 6
  • Brooklyn Three Kings Day Parade ~ Around January 6
  • Women’s March ~ Martin Luther King Weekend Saturday

February Parades

  • Chinese New Year Parade ~ Around Chinese New Year (new moon between Jan 21 and Feb 20)

March Parades

  • Throgs Neck St Patrick’s Day Parade ~ Around March 17
  • St. Patrick’s Day Parade ~ March 17

April Parades

  • Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival ~ Easter Sunday

May Parades

  • Cinco de Mayo Parade ~ Sunday around May 5
  • Dance Parade ~ Third Saturday
  • Cuban Parade ~ Third Sunday
  • Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade ~ Memorial Day Weekend
  • Little Neck-Douglaston Parade ~ Memorial Day Weekend

June Parades

  • Anniversary Day Parade ~ First Thursday
  • Celebrate Israel Parade ~ late May or early June
  • Queens Pride Parade ~ First Sunday
  • Portugal Day Parade ~ Sunday around June 10
  • Philippine Independence Day Parade ~ Around June 12
  • National Puerto Rican Day Parade ~ Second Sunday
  • Coney Island Mermaid Parade ~ Third Saturday (First Saturday of Summer)
  • Queens Dominican Parade ~ Fourth Sunday
  • NYC Pride March ~ Last Sunday

July Parades

  • Colombian Flower Festival Parade ~ Second Sunday
  • Disability Parade ~ Second Sunday
  • Colombian Parade ~ Sunday around July 20
  • Harlem Silent Parade ~ Around July 28
  • Peruvian Parade ~ Last Sunday

August Parades

  • Ecuadorian Parade ~ First Sunday
  • Dominican Day Parade ~ Second Sunday
  • St. Rocco Feast Parade ~ August 16

September Parades

  • Brazilian Day ~ Labor Day Weekend Sunday
  • J’Ouvert Parade ~ Labor Day Monday
  • West Indian Day Parade ~ Labor Day Monday
  • Labor Day Parade ~ Around Labor Day
  • Bronx Central American Independence Parade ~ Second Sunday
  • Feast of San Gennaro Procession ~ September 19
  • African American Day Parade ~ Third Sunday
  • Muslim Day Parade ~ Fourth Sunday

October Parades

  • Panamanian Parade ~ 1st or 2nd Saturday
  • Hispanic Day Parade ~ Sunday before or after Columbus Day
  • Columbus Day Parade ~ Columbus Day (Monday)
  • Village Halloween Parade ~ Halloween
  • Jackson Heights Children’s Halloween Parade ~ Halloween
  • Tompkins Square Park Dog Parade ~ Halloween

November Parades

  • Veterans Day Parade ~ Veterans Day
  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ~ Thanksgiving

December Parades

  • Winter Village

There aren’t many parades in New York City during the winter, but the Caribbean is just three hours away. There are many Caribbean Carnival parades and parades at patron saint festivals in small towns across the Hispanic world all year long.

Fifth Avenue is NYC’s Main Parade Street

NYC’s Hispanic Day Parade marches up Fifth Avenue past Bergdorf Goodman at 57th St.

In Manhattan, parades also march on Sixth Avenue, Madison Avenue and Central Park West.

More NYC Parades

West Indian Day Parade 2018

Brooklyn Museum
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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Reggae | Afrobeats | Soca Unda Di Stars!
Thursday, August 30, 2018
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Youth Fest
Brass Fest
Friday, August 31, 2018
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Junior Carnival Parade
Steelband Panorama
Saturday, September 1, 2018
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Dimanche Gras Grand Finale
Sunday, September 2, 2018
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West Indian Day Parade
Eastern Parkway
Schenectady to Grand Army Plaza
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Monday, September 3, 2018

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March for Our Lives NYC

17 school shootings so far this year.
What is more important?
1. The constitutional right to play with guns?
2. The safety of our children in school?
Rally and March in the Upper West Side, Central Park, and Midtown, Manhattan
Saturday, March 24, 2018

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