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The Labor Day Carnival Celebration 2014 thread. - Page 2 — Brooklynian

The Labor Day Carnival Celebration 2014 thread.

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  • greenegirl
    greenegirl
    Beer companies are already doing their part. I live on New York Avenue and a few houses away from me a house has two different banners from liquor companies supporting the parade.


  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Saturday evening is the steel pan band competition behind the Brooklyn Museum.

    This article profiles a local band that is competing: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/nyregion/for-a-band-of-steel-pan-drummers-summer-means-practice-practice-practice.html?referrer=
  • Davina
    Davina
    @goldemi1 - I was thinking the same thing this morning! Yep it is definitely building up :-)
  • goldemi1
    goldemi1
    Oh that horrendous layering of "music" /screaming last night at 2 am
  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    Cops EVERYWHERE on Nostrand this morning. And last night.
  • clayfilms
    clayfilms
    edited August 2014
    2 things.

    • Guinness Stout has a PR rep posted up in a bodega on the corner of President & Nostrand giving out free samples and Guinness branded merch. LOL
    • Where the heck are all of the garbage cans that used to be on Eastern Parkway? This happens every year and every year the parkway is covered in trash...BECAUSE THERE IS NOWHERE TO THROW YOUR GARBAGE. Why Department of Sanitation?!?!? WHY!?!?!?
  • lox
    lox
    Yea they do it every year. The trash is annoying but remember what happened at the Boston Marathon a couple of years? Pretty sure that's why.
  • Davina
    Davina
    I was also thinking that. It leaves a mess but I guess it will be a mess no matter what
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    Sanitation cleans up the mess within hours of the parade ending. For security reasons, they would rather the trash be dispersed. Power vacuums are amazing things....

    Lots of fun photos of today's kids parade on my Facebook feed that I am too lazy to post.
  • tsarina
    tsarina
    neighbor mentioned this the last year for the parade on eastern parkway.  Passed that along to the rumor mill and it was confirmed by a uniformed officer. talk amongst yourselves....
  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    Whaaaat? Where will it go?
  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    Maybe it is the weather, but it is SO quiet in my neck of the woods.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    J'ouvert happens tonight (early Monday morning) beginning at around 3 AM. I believe it happens at GAP, or on Empire Blvd.

    It is sort of unplanned.

    Hopefully it will be free from serious incidents. The police scanner sites will tell us if that turns out to not be the case.

  • tsarina
    tsarina
    On the contrary.  Its on flatbush ave between the library and the botanic garden. bands are playing and you check em out and pick one to dance along with. Heard this is the parade to go to.  
  • southeast
    southeast
    edited August 2014
    neighbor mentioned this the last year for the parade on eastern parkway.  Passed that along to the rumor mill and it was confirmed by a uniformed officer. talk amongst yourselves....


    Please, please be true.  The parade causes an area of (approximately) 2.4 miles by 1 mile to be closed to traffic.  I know of no other parade that closes such a large, primarily, residential area and inconveniences/impacts so many local residents.  

    Putting this parade somewhere else, would actually give me and my family a holiday/extended weekend that we can actually use and enjoy. One where we can go out and enjoy ourselves and come back at our leisure and not be a prisoner in our own neighborhoods; unable to go and come from our our own homes as we please; unable to shop on Monday for back to school items, benefiting from the extended weekend and labor day sales - instead, everything has to be done Saturday or Sunday, like any other weekend; and if we are out and about, unable to come back to our home at a reasonable hour so our children can go to bed at bedtime so they can have a good night's sleep and not be tired and cranky when I'm heading off to work on Tuesday.

    And this doesn't have to be the case.  Why not use one of the Avenues in Midtoown Manhattan, as most other parades do.  It's and extended weekend, and people that don't want to participate or be inconvenienced by the parade can just avoid the area.

    And here is the list - street closures appear to be as follows:

    Southbound traffic from Atlantic Avenue to Eastern Parkway between Utica Avenue and Flatbush Avenue.

    Northbound traffic from Empire Blvd. to Eastern Parkway between Utica Avenue and Flatbush Avenue.

    Northbound traffic on Flatbush Avenue from Church Avenue to Grand Army Plaza.

    Southbound traffic on Flatbush Avenue from Grand Army Plaza to Empire Blvd.

    Southbound traffic on Ocean Avenue from Empire Blvd. to Parkside Avenue.

    Northbound traffic on Ocean Avenue from Parkside Avenue to Empire Blvd.

    You can leave, but you can not return.  Not fun!
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    If the rumor is true, I suspect it will be announced and discussed in several reputable media outlets. Readers would be wise to hold off mourning or celebrating until then.

    @tsarina -
    Doesn't J'ourvert seem to cluster at either the Empire Blvd end or GAP end?

    The years I've gone, it had problems with the marching/moving aspect. It was a blob.
  • xlizellx
    xlizellx
    I thought j'ouvert was flatbush between GAP and empire and then nostrand between empire and linden-ish?  I definitely thought it continued south of empire...
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    From what I understand, many aspects of J'ourvert aren't planned.    Meaning that a large group of revelers gets together and then celebrates.    

    As a result, it kind of happens where people get together, and then the crowd builds.   Sometimes they manage to move, other times they seem to celebrate in one spot.   Historically, Flatbush between GAP and Empire is a popular spot and the NYPD closes it to accommodate the crowds.  

    BTW, this story reads like a WIADCA press release, and states nothing about the parade moving:  

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  • tsarina
    tsarina
    well from our older white folk who dont actually get out to these events, but do try to live vicariously, while getting a good nights sleep,  the info I have acquired is that the different bands are on flatbush between the gap and empire, and play and people mingle and go around to listen to which band they want to dance with and then at some point the bands and the people move down empire to nostrand to church avenue.  3 a.m. be out there, but dont quote me.  another time I heard 6 am. (maybe thats when they get moving down Empire.  But a lot of milling about and music down on flatbush between the parks is where it all gets started.  Dont wear your best clothes.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    When I went, there was a crowd of people at Empire and Flatbush, and another at GAP.

    Between the two points was just bored NYPD, and people walking to see if it was any more exciting "over there".   
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited September 2014

    The police have been quite busy overnight:

    About 3 AM at EP and Franklin a conflict between a police car and revelers. Video:
     
    Reportedly there was much dancing on top of the police car after the video was taken.   Windshield was broken.   There was short lived fight between the crowd and responding police.


    9/1/2014 3:41 a.m.|-73.9538490,40.6637280|Double Shooting |POLICE| 270 Empire Blvd & Rogers Ave <br> Brooklyn, NY|BROOKLYN *DOUBLE SHOOTING* 270 EMPIRE BLVD & ROGERS AVE. MALE SHOT IN THE LEG, FEMALE SHOT IN THE BUTTOCKS, BOTH NOT LIKELY. PERP IN CUSTODY. FIREARM RECOVERED (c) [MNS225]|1409557262|MNS

    From my facebook feed:
    "Unfortunately someone was just shot here on Empire between Nostrand and Rogers. Not sure how this affects Jouvert and the rest of Carnival. Definitely ruined my (and many other people's) night. Hopefully the rest of carnival is peaceful."



    9/1/2014 4:13 a.m.|-73.9309575,40.6705785|Shooting |POLICE| Utica Ave & St Johns <br> Brooklyn, NY|BROOKLYN *SHOOTING* UTICA AVE & ST JOHNS PL. AIDED NOT LIKELY ATT. (c) [MNS225]|1409559182|MNS


    9/1/2014 4:49 a.m.|-73.9484296,40.6399717|Shots Fired Over The Air / Foot Pursuit |POLICE| Newkirk Avenue & Nostrand Avenue <br> Brooklyn, NY|BROOKLYN *SHOTS FIRED OVER THE AIR / FOOT PURSUIT* NEWKIRK AVENUE & NOSTRAND AVENUE, FOOT PURSUIT ONGOING.    (c) [MNS-22-]|1409561342|MNS


    9/1/2014 5:08 a.m.|-73.9504971,40.6698945|Rmp MVA |OTHER| Eastern Parkway & Nostrand Avenue <br> Brooklyn, NY|BROOKLYN *RMP MVA* EASTERN PARKWAY & NOSTRAND AVENUE. REQ EMS.    (c) [MNS-22-]|1409562482|MNS
    Which seems to indicate that a police vehicle was involved in an accident.





  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited September 2014
    And, perhaps needless to say, thousands of people had a great time.    Video of the J'ourvert festivities on Flatbush, around 3 AM:   

    videos and photos:  




  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited September 2014
    Channel 2 is reporting that the 3:41 AM shooting at Rogers and Empire I mention above, actually involved 3 victims, one of which may have died:

     
  • McChloe
    McChloe
    Stay safe, everyone. I hate that this violence casts such an awful light on what could be a great parade, and what is a great neighborhood filled with great people. 364 days of the year I loved living there...but I don't miss it this weekend.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    How large is this event?

    The red dots indicate known traffic problems as per google maps.   If you are driving in Brooklyn today, you aren't real smart:

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  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    approx 10:15AM
    Brooklyn: Lincoln Place & Classon Ave. NYPD reporting a person slashed, EMS transported to Kings County hospital. Crime scene established.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited September 2014
    Cuomo and DeBlasio lead the parade:

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  • theburgerking
    theburgerking
    I am out of town for the weekend like every Labor Day weekend. Usually I leave on Fridays but this year I left on Saturday and had the weave in and out of the children's parade on St. John's. This parade was extremely loud. I doubt that power generators with DJs blaring music was part of the original parade plan. I can rant on and on about the disturbance this parade causes: the parking issue and the garbage, the noise, the length and so on. By no means I am suggesting to end this parade thou I wouldn't shed a tear, rather perhaps it's high time this parade is looked at and maybe just maybe tweaked a bit. Just saying.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited September 2014
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    whynot_31
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