The 2016 West Indian Carnival - Labor Day Parade thread.

I'd love to hear peoples recommendations on the best places to hit while touring/enjoying the parade. I'm taking a friend from out of town this year. Usually, I enter the parade from Underhill, go eat and walk around, drop by The Islands for more food, then stop by a bar. Any bars (with backyard or patio) I shouldn't miss? Any food stalls you recommend?

How can I get in on the march, just maybe not all the way from Schenectady? Last year there was some fence jumping going on but I'd rather avoid hurdles if possible.

Diana Richardson is looking for marchers but not sure what kind of music will be involved. I'd be lying if I said I'm not in it for the soca!

The patio at Ebbets Field will be off limits (even to residents) from Sunday through some time on Monday.

Looks like pretty poor logistics planning for the end of the evening. The last couple of years the parade has ended 6-7pm and there has been a push to get the parkway back open.I know it has been open and turned over to Sanitation before 9pm. I just walked out, and the parkway and all the arterial streets are still closed leaving plenty of opportunity for folks to just hang out. 

So who is the parade committee contact who can pay vet bills, when my dog eats some disgusting, pointy bone off the ground, or inadvertently steps on some broken glass?

It is, but not to the extent it is post-parade. Usually, I can steer my dog away from trash, bones, and glass here and there. But today, it's absolutely everywhere. And I think the people who organize this parade need to be responsible for it. The city does a great job cleaning up as much as they can in a short period of time. But if an organization holds a street party, isn't it that organization's responsibility to return it to a better condition? And when are we getting our trash cans back?!?

It would seem the West Indian American Day Carnival Association runs the parade as they're the ones on the poster at the top of this thread. I used to have a client who worked for them for a few days during the setup and such and he got paid fairly well for it.

The way parade permits work in the city is that you pay a fee to receive your permit. Your permit fee includes costs for things like sanitation and police. So, WIADCA already pays for this. Could more be done to limit trash on the streets? Possibly, but remember that this is also affected by many other policies, such as the decision to remove trash receptacles from the commercial strips (with the though that their presence actually increases street litter).