I know that the West Indian Day Parade is noisy, and for one afternoon, I can handle it. I'm not complaining about the noise but rather observing that I don't remember hearing the parade noise in the past as much as I have this year. I'm on Butler Place. In past years, I feel like the entire parade has gone by without hearing anything.
Am I just imagining this, or has something about the floats' turn-around point changed?
an offshoot of the parade just rolled down vanderbilt ave an hour ago, about 85 people in costume and a huge double decker bus with loudspeaker playing music, taking up the whole street.
the cops that have been stationed at the corners here quickly put the kibosh on it when it got to the st marks intersection, telling the paraders to move to the sidewalk and turn the music down/off, citing that this was a residential area.
i heard in past years the terminus of the parade was actually the vanderbilt and st marks intersection, though they didnt come thru last year.
Don't know, but I was up and down the parade route and my friends and I all remarked on how it was much more mellow then in the years past.
While I wasn't on the route today, we did walk Sterling from Underhill east to Nostrand, and back on Park Place. The neighborhood was pretty dead, and we remarked that in past years there were many more people stoop sitting, or out in their yards grilling.
Maybe the new crowd-control measures (letting people cross at points along the route) worked.
I noticed the usual amount of police presence.
Feels more mellow to me. Years past, they used to send the parade floats down underhill when they got off Washington Parkway. The floats kept playing music, people kept dancing and partying with them. My entire house shook. Party would continue in front of the bodega at underhill and sterling late into the nights.
Some years, Easter Parkway was so crowded you could hardly walk. This may have been a police tactic - there were lots of barricades set up to prevent movement on the sidewalk down the avenue. This year seems much less crowded when I was there around noon to get some lunch. Been less crowded for a few years now, imho
coming from an eastern pkwy residence, this was relatively mellow. quite enjoyed it, actually.
The weather is probably causing the parade to sound louder. Low clouds often allow sound to travel farther.
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