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Article: West Indian Carnival 2003: one of U.S's biggest parades attracts millions to Brooklyn.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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IT'S the best-kept secret in New York City and one of the biggest secrets in the U.S.A. Every Labor Day, for the last 33 years, millions of marchers explode in a kaleidoscope of color and movement that sweeps down Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway in a parade-festival-celebration that is the largest carnival outside Brazil and one of the biggest parades in the United States. Most of the celebrants in the West Indian American Day Carnival are West Indians or descendants of West Indians, but on Labor Day in Brooklyn almost everyone, including Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, is an Islander. Among the celebrants last year were Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Hillary ...