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NYC Parades

NYC parades are America’s biggest cultural celebrations.

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Spring 2021: We don’t have any special information, but don’t expect parades to return in New York City until Summer or Fall 2021, or maybe even Spring 2022.

New York City’s Latin parade traditions grew out of military parades, Caribbean Carnival and New Orleans funeral processions.

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 ~ First Sunday
  • 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 Parades (Giuseppe Masci/Dreamstime)
NYC Parades (Giuseppe Masci/Dreamstime)

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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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

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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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