West Indian Day Parade

i agree with guvna, musuem is a great spot due to the extra space.
i've been going for a while and usually setup here!

please note, i seem to remember that 2/3 trains do not let out on eastern parkway, franklin avenue and perhaps beyond...

guru wrote: [quote=Guvna]I havent been in years, but I would guess that the Brooklyn Museum is a good place to safely watch things. It is the judging area, so I would guess there'll be cops focused on crowd contol over there, plus it has a lot more space than the barricaded street route itself, thus presumably making it safer also.

Hey Guvna ya think it'll be safe. I've been going to the parade since I was 8 or 9 and even as a trouble making teen in the 70's I have never been scratched. We had a few rough years in the 70's, 1977 in particular stands out, and then is when they started closing down early and curtailing the after parties going back down Nostrand etc. In the old days they didn't shut down the streets or have all the partitions, and you were sure to see a bunch of drunk cops.
I went alot in the late 80's and thru the 90s, never had a problem myself. I used to party in amongst the floats/trucks right down the parkway, then off into crown heights/flatbush afterwards. However, the next day there always seemed to be a report of shots fired, someone shot, or some sort of incident. Thats not a lot considering the number of people, amount of guns in Brooklyn, booze flowing, etc, but people should still be aware.

last year, it seemed to me there was less crowding farther east. i started out at nostrand, then moved east later on, eating the whole time....mmmm..... seems to me the extra space at the museum might well be filled by the extra people wanting to watch the judging, and therefore be the most crowded spot -- is this not the case?