"Everything that you need at home is here in Brooklyn, especially on Labor Day,"
"If you want your flag, your food-curry chicken, oxtail, anything-you'll get it right here."
"Carnival is rebellion. We are free, we are on the road, we are celebrating with each other."
More than a million people attended the 58th West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway during Labor Day. The West Indian American Day Carnival Association organized the Carnival weekend with an eight-hour parade under the theme "Vive Le Carnivale." The route ran from Utica Avenue to Grand Army Plaza, with the Brooklyn Museum serving as the judging point for 18 competing masquerade bands. J'Ouvert began at 6 a.m. with revelers in powder and paint, followed by steelpan bands, soca and calypso music, and dancers representing Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Grenada, and Barbados. Multiple mayoral candidates greeted voters along the route amid heightened security.
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