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Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.

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Fèt Gede is the Beautiful Haitian Festival of the Dead

Fèt Gede, Grand Cimetiere, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (airmaria/Adobe)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 🇭🇹

Diwali is Celebrated in NYC’s South Asian and West Indian Communities

Diwali NYC is celebrated in West Indian and South Asian communities. (Avisheck Das/Dreamstime)

HK HALL, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan
ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, Financial District, Manhattan
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SEAPORT MUSEUM, Seaport, Manhattan
FLUSHING TOWN HALL, Flushing, Queens
LIBERTY AVE, South Ozone Park, Queens
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Jackson Heights Halloween Parade is Fun for Young Children

Jackson Heights Halloween Parade (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🎃

Puerto Rican Heritage Month, “Yo Soy Boricua…”

November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month (Ivan Kokoulin/Dreamstime)

NOVEMBER 🇵🇷

St Jude Thaddeus is the Patron Saint of Lost Causes

St Jude Thaddeus in the Basilica of St Vitalis in Ravenna, Italy (Neil Harrison/Dreamstime)

OCTOBER 28 🇮🇹

Day of the Dead, Día de Muertos, Comes to Life at Mano y Mano’s Community Altars

Mano a Mano NYC Day of the Dead Celebration (Juan Aguirre)

HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇲🇽
ST. MARK’S CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY, East Village, Manhattan 🇲🇽
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇲🇽
FLATIRON NORTH PLAZA, Flatiron District, Manhattan 🇲🇽

International Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl, Celebrates the Rich Multicultural Heritage of the West Indies and the Caribbean

International Creole Day NYC (Amskad/Dreamstime)

OCTOBER 28 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇫 🇬🇾 🇭🇹 🇱🇨 🇹🇹 🇺🇳

Columbus Day Stopped Southerners from Lynching Italian Americans, but the Evil Man Unleashed The Apocalypse on the World

Columbus Day

2nd October Monday 🇪🇸 🇺🇸

Sukkot is the Jewish Fruit Harvest Festival

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Italian Heritage Day Celebrates One of the Communities Who Defined New York City

Italian Heritage Day in New York City - Mulberry St in Little Italy around 1900 (Library of Congress)

Second October Monday 🇮🇹

National Day of Spain is el Día de la Hispanidad

National Day of Spain in New York City, Día de la Hispanidad (Jiawangukun/Dreamstime)

October 12, 1492 🇪🇸

Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, “Yom Tov”

Yom Kippur (Chinnapong/Adobe)

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Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Powwow Includes a Sunrise Ceremony

Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Powwow (Jenta Wong/Dreamstime)

RANDALLS ISLAND, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Cuban Independence Day Celebrates “The Cry of Yara” Which Launched the First Cuban War of Independence From Spain

Cuban Independence Day (Javier Gonzalez Leyva/Dreamstime)

YARA, Granma, Cuba 🇨🇺

Indigenous Peoples Day in New York City

Indigenous Peoples Day in New York City (Topshots/Adobe)

Second Monday in October 🇺🇸

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade Unites All First Nations and Friends

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americans Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

MADISON SQUARE PARK & BROADWAY, Flatiron District to Union Square, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Saint Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of Animals, the Environment, and One of the Patrons of Italy

Saint Francis of Assisi, oldest known image at the Subiaco Abby in Lazio, Italy (Wikimedia)

OCTOBER 4 🇮🇹

Orunmila is the Yoruba Orisha of Wisdom and Divination

Orunmila, Yoruba orisha of wisdom, ileke (Jorge Ferreiro/Adobe)

October 4 🇨🇺

Belíe Belcán is the Dominican Loa of Justice

Belie Belcan (Photoeuphoria/Dreamstime)

SEPTEMBER 29 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Obatalá is the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People

Obatalá orisha (Epitavi/Dreamstime)

September 24 🇨🇺

El Salvadoran Independence Day is September 15, 1821

El Salvadoran Independence Day (Elena Berd/Adobe)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador 🇸🇻

Mexican Independence Day in New York City, ¡Viva México!, ¡Viva México!, ¡Viva México!

Mexican Independence Day in El Zocalo, Mexico City (Diego Grande/Adobe)

September 16, 1810 🇲🇽

The Feast of San Gennaro is a Romantic Little Italy Street Fair

Feast of San Gennaro Festival (Scott Wagner/Dreamstime)

MULBERRY STREET, Little Italy, Manhattan 🇮🇹

Central American Independence Parade and Festival is a Honduran Garífuna Celebration in The Bronx

Central American Independence Parade and Festival (Barna Tanko/Dreamstime)

HAPPY LAND MEMORIAL MONUMENT to CROTONA PARK, Crotona Park East, The Bronx 🇭🇳

Labor Day Weekend in New York City 2024

Labor Day parilla BBQ (Danilo/Adobe)

Celebrate organized labor.
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Trinidad Carnival 2025 is the Mother of Caribbean Carnival

Trinidad Carnival (Granderiviere/Dreamstime)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹
 

West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn on Labor Day Celebrates Evolution as the Climax of New York Carnival

West Indian Day Parade NYC (Rebekah Burgess/Dreamstime)

EASTERN PARKWAY, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇹🇹 + 🇩🇲 🇬🇩 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🇰🇳 🇻🇨

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían 2025 (Sanse) is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían, Sanse (Czuber/Dreamstime)

CALLE SAN SEBASTÍAN, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Queens Hispanic Parade 2024 Desfile Hispano de Queens

Queens Hispanic Parade (Kobby Dagan/Dreamstime)

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Queenship of Mary Recognizes the Divinity of Women

Queenship of Mary "The Coronation of the Virgin" by Diego Velázquez, 1635 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

August 22

Uruguayan Independence Day is August 25, 1825

Uruguayan Independence Day (Martin Schneiter/Dreamstime)

August 25, 1825 🇺🇾

Haitian Revolution was the Only Time in History an Enslaved People Freed Themselves and Founded a Nation

Haitian Revolution "Le Negres Marron" (Glenda Powers/Adobe)

August 22, 1791 🇭🇹

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is BK’s Free Outdoor Summer Festival

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! (BRIC Arts Media)

Afropunk Black Music Festival ~ Erykah Badu, Larissa Luz 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇸🇩

LENA HORNE BANDSHELL, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Ecuadorian Independence Day Celebrations in New York City Include the Ecuadorian Parade and Ecuadorian Festival

Ecuadorian Independence Day (Rui Baião/Dreamstime)

August 10, 1809 🇪🇨

Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On

Yewá in pink watches over the Old San Juan cemetery (Ajitha/Adobe)

AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem

CCCADI Afribembé Festival (Mirmoor/Dreamstime)

GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Festival de las Flores is New York’s Version of Medellín’s Feria de las Flores

Festival de las Flores NYC (Pepicat/Adobe)

37th AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇨🇴

Fourth of July in New York City is U.S. Independence Day

Fourth of July in New York City (Eduard4us/Dreamstime)

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1776 🇺🇸

Feast of Saint John the Baptist Marks Midsummer or Midwinter

Saint John the Baptist was Leonardo Da Vinci's last painting, detail, ca 1513-1516 (Wikimedia/Louvre Museum)

JUNE 24 🇮🇹 🇵🇷

Inti Raymi is Inca New Year

Inti Raymi in Cusco, Peru (Jeff Cleveland/Dreamstime)

JUNE 24 🇵🇪

Queens Dominican Day Parade Marches Through Jackson Heights

Queens Dominican Day Parade Diablo Cojuelo (Alkiona25/Dreamstime)

JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇩🇴

Coney Island Mermaid Parade is America’s Largest Art Parade

Coney Island Mermaid Parade (Vladimir Korostyshevkly/Dreamstime)

SURF AVE & THE BOARDWALK, Coney Island, Brooklyn

Summer Solstice is the Longest Day of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere

Summer Solstice (pexels)

JUNE 20, 2024

Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Yoruba Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny

Eleguá watches a door in Cuba. He watches our door too. (Tupungato/Dreamstime)

Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Father’s Day in New York City

Father's Day in New York City (Ananaline/Adobe)

THIRD JUNE SUNDAY 🇺🇸

Juneteenth Parade and Street Fair in Harlem Celebrates All American Freedom Day

Harlem Juneteenth Parade and Street Fair (Calyx22/Dreamstime)

116TH STREET, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Portugal Day is Portugal’s National Day

Portugal Day (Raquel Pedrosa/Dreamstime)

JUNE 10, 1580 🇵🇹

Portuguese Festival and Portugal Day Parade Celebrate Dia de Portugal Newark

Portugal Day Parade in Newark (Newark City Council)

NEWARK, New Jersey, Ironbound District 🇵🇹

On Yoruba New Year “E ku odun, eku iyedun”

Yoruba New Year (Terver/Adobe)

JUNE 3 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Italian Republic Day is Italy’s National Day

Italian Republic Day (Andrii Shevchuck/Dreamstime)

JUNE 2, 1946 🇮🇹

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