{"id":317862,"date":"2026-08-10T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317862\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:56:13","slug":"inaugural-south-asian-unity-parade-held-in-jackson-heights-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317862\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural South Asian Unity Parade held in Jackson Heights \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0620-1.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"south asian unity\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The first South Asian Unity Parade was held on Sunday, Aug. 9, in Jackson Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t Search our comprehensive guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/events.qns.com\/?utm_source=qns&amp;utm_medium=oneliner&amp;utm_campaign=thingstodo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">things to do in Queens<\/a> for more local events \u2014 or <a href=\"https:\/\/events.qns.com\/add-your-event\/?utm_source=qns&amp;utm_medium=oneliner&amp;utm_campaign=thingstodo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">submit your own<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The first-ever South Asian Unity Parade was held on Sunday, Aug. 9, along 69th Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/jackson-heights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Heights<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=619280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-619280 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0605-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5392\" height=\"3592\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=619281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-619281 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5392\" height=\"3592\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=619287\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-619287 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6006\" height=\"3667\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=619284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-619284 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5392\" height=\"3592\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud\n<\/p>\n<p>This brought together South Asian communities and celebrated their cultural diversity, unity and shared heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first South Asian Unity Parade was held on Sunday, Aug. 9, in Jackson Heights. Photo by Ramy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,119908],"class_list":["post-317862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-south-asian-unity-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}