{"id":338651,"date":"2026-09-05T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:18:19","slug":"west-indian-day-parade-to-end-half-hour-early-in-move-to-curb-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338651\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indian Day Parade to end half hour early in move to curb violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said they\u2019re ending the West Indian Day Parade<\/a> a half hour early this year to try to prevent violence<\/a> on Labor Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past this parade has been accompanied by unacceptable violence, making it difficult for New Yorkers to celebrate joyfully and safely,\u201d Mamdani said at a Friday press conference at the Brooklyn Museum overlooking the parade route. \u201cThat is why City Hall\u2019s Office of Community Safety, the NYPD and our partners in the crisis management system have developed a comprehensive security plan to ensure that this year\u2019s West Indian Day Parade and J\u2019Ouvert can run smoothly and safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NYPDNYPD officers and EMS personnel remove an unidentified shooting victim from Eastern Parkway and Franklin Ave. in Brooklyn after someone opened fire and hit five people during the West Indian Day Parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The annual festivities draw millions to Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights to dance, eat and celebrate Caribbean culture for Carnival. But in recent years the revelries have been tarnished by shootings<\/a> and stabbings.<\/p>\n

This year, the Police Department will deploy more police officers and cut the parade\u2019s end time earlier in hopes it will help avoid violent incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat end time is deliberate, given the history of violence we have seen on and around the parade route at that hour and later,\u201d Tisch said. She noted that, last year, three shootings on or near the parade route between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. left six people wounded.<\/p>\n

\"ThousandsThousands of people attend the West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn during the annual Carnival event Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The Mayor\u2019s Office of Community Safety<\/a>, mostly through its work on the city\u2019s Crisis Management System, has also played a role in the planning for the parade, Renita Francois, the deputy mayor for community safety, said at the press conference.<\/p>\n

Crisis management teams have been\u00a0working ahead of the events and will continue through Monday to mediate conflicts and disputes before they escalate,\u00a0Francois said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said they\u2019re ending the West Indian Day Parade a half hour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,25246,102,787,127161,5302,36610,9,24,63,103,127162,3980,122330],"class_list":["post-338651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-carnival","tag-crown-heights","tag-gun-violence","tag-jouvert","tag-jessica-tisch","tag-mayor-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-safety-plan","tag-shootings","tag-west-indian-day-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338651","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=338651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}