TheThree Kings Day Parade NYC is a New York City holiday tradition. It begins with a Three Kings Day Breakfast at El Museo del Barrio, continues with the Three Kings Day Parade, and ends with an after party with live music back at El Museo del Barrio.
48th Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2026
El Barrio’s Three Kings Day Parade and Celebration, NYC’s big Three Kings event, is in East Harlem, Manhattan; on Tuesday, January 6, 2026. It starts with a ticketed breakfast at El Museo del Barrio from 8:30-10:30am, followed by Three Kings Day Parade from 11am – 12pm. The After Party is back at El Museo del Barrio.
The 2026 Parade Theme is “Pa’lante, Siempre Pa’lante! (Forward, Always Forward). This year honors the Young Lords of the 1970s who pulled themselves forward from a street gang to a real community service and political organization.
47th Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2025
47th El Museo del Barrio Three Kings Day Parade features giant puppets, camels, Puerto Rican BombaYo dance company, Nicaraguan jazz drummer Annette Aguilar & Stringbeans, and Brazilian women’s drum line Fogo Azul, all celebrating the theme “The Arts Open Paths” (El Arte Abriendo Caminos) in East Harlem, Manhattan, from 106th and Lexington to 115th St and Park Avenue; from 11am – 12pm. Parade Check-in is on 106th St between Fifth and Madison Ave. The Parade starts at 106th St and Park Avenue, turns north on Third Ave, turns west on 116th St, turns south on Park Avenue, and ends at 115th St. FREE. 🇧🇷 🇳🇮 🇵🇷
Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2024
46th Three Kings Day Parade 2024
The 2024 Three Kings Day Parade has the usual breakfast, parade, and celebration.
Three Kings Day Breakfast 2024
The 47th Three Kings Day Breakfast is an opportunity to meet parade honorees and community leaders at El Museo del Barrio in “El Barrio” East Harlem; on Friday, January 5, 2024 from 8:30-10:30am. FREE elmuseo.org 🇵🇷
Three Kings Day Parade 2024
The 47th Three Kings Day Parade 2024 features the Three Kings, giant puppets, camels, floats and live music including Puerto Rican bomba or plena by BombaYo, Latin jazz by Annette Aguilar & Stringbeans, the women’s Brazilian drum line Fogo Azul and more. The parade celebrates the theme “Tradiciones: Keeping Our Stories Alive;” in the parade on Park Avenue from 106th St to 115th St; on Friday, January 5, 2024 from 11am – 12pm. FREE. elmuseo.org 🇧🇷 🇳🇮 🇵🇷
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Three Kings Day Celebration 2024
The 47th Three Kings Day Celebration follows with Puerto Rican television host Rhina Valentin and live bomba and plena music, and probably some dancing, by Los Pleneros de la 21 in El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio in “El Barrio” East Harlem; from 1:30-3pm. FREE. 🇵🇷 elmuseo.org
Tradiciones: Keeping Our Stories Alive
The theme “Tradiciones: Keeping Our Stories Alive” acknowledges the storytelling traditions that are central to Indigenous, European, and African Diaspora communities, and the fact that to get our stories told right, we have to tell them ourselves.
The age of social media is changing world cultural practice, and we are forgetting our heritage. It’s important to keep our traditions alive, because they help our children be better people and better Americans.
Sponsors
The breakfast, parade, and celebration are sponsored by the New York Yankees, Ponce Bank, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Three Kings Day Parade
New York City’s Three Kings Day Parade is an “El Barrio” East Harlem tradition. It features giant puppets, camels, floats, and live music.
Today many families celebrate both Three Kings Day and Christmas, but Three Kings Day is the traditional Hispanic Christmas gift-giving day. We’ll never forget one Three Kings Day Parade when we saw a young child holding the doll the Three Kings gave her. That doll was the most precious object in the universe, and the child’s look of contentment was unforgettable. It may have been the only thing she got that year, so it was special. This day is special.
It used to be the big day in Puerto Rico, where it is our favorite day of the year because families are out in the parks and kids are playing with their new toys. Though it’s changing now, “El Barrio” has long been a Puerto Rican neighborhood, so this is an important event.
Three Kings Day also marks the start of serious Carnival preparations in the Latin world.
Though it’s produced by El Barrio’s Puerto Rican community, the breakfast, parade, and celebration are for everyone, and everyone goes.