Enhanced Security Planned for the New York Carnival Parade on Labor Day

NYC Mayor Mamdani police ramp up security for J'Ouvert and West Indian Day Carnival

The cultural celebration draws a big crowd every year on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, but it has resulted in some violence in the past.

Thousands of cops, earlier finish planned for West Indian Day Parade

New York City will end Monday’s West Indian Day Parade promptly on Labor Day Monday afternoon — a cutoff officials say is aimed at preventing the late-day gun violence that marred last year’s celebration. The measure is part of a broader security plan that will put thousands of NYPD officers and hundreds of community violence-prevention...

West Indian Day Parade to end half hour early in move to curb violence

The annual festivities draw millions to Eastern Parkway to dance, eat and celebrate Caribbean culture at Carnival. But in recent years the revelries have been tarnished by shootings and stabbings.

Enhanced security planned for the New York Carnival Parade on Labor Day

The NYPD is enhancing security measures for one of the biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture, the New York Carnival Parade.

NYC’s notoriously violent West Indian American Day parade to end early in effort to curb crime

Thousands of cops will be on the beat during the West Indian Day Parade and the early-bird J'Ouvert Festival, which begins at 6 a.m. and runs until the parade kicks off.