{"id":340161,"date":"2026-09-07T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:14:14","slug":"news-12-long-island-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340161\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thousands of New Yorkers are lining Eastern Parkway Monday for the annual West Indian American Day Parade, one of the city&#8217;s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The parade stepped off at 11 a.m., bringing colorful costumes, music, dancing and flags representing countries and cultures from across the Caribbean to the streets of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Labor Day tradition draws crowds from across New York City and beyond, celebrating generations of Caribbean heritage and the community&#8217;s influence on the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Along with the festivities, there is also a heightened focus on safety.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD is stepping up patrols along the parade route and in surrounding neighborhoods following incidents of violence connected to Labor Day celebrations in previous years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say there are currently no credible threats to Monday&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Despite the added precautions, the focus for those lining the parade route remains on celebrating Caribbean culture, community and tradition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 will be along Eastern Parkway throughout the day as the celebration continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of New Yorkers are lining Eastern Parkway Monday for the annual West Indian American Day Parade, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-340161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340161","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=340161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}