{"id":347476,"date":"2026-09-15T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347476\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:50:27","slug":"mexican-independence-day-parade-brings-culture-and-unity-to-staten-island-88-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347476\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Independence Day Parade Brings Culture and Unity to Staten Island (88 Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mexican Independence Day Parade brought culture and unity to Staten Island on Sunday, Sept. 13. Families and community members filled Port Richmond Avenue with Mexican flags, music and colorful displays. The seventh annual parade celebrated culture, resilience and unity in Staten Island&#8217;s Mexican community. La Colmena launched the parade in 2020 to celebrate Mexican culture and bring the community together. Hina Naveed said the event grows each year, with new sponsors, partners and community members. Organizers also coordinated with the NYPD and livestreamed the parade for people who could not attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican Independence Day Parade brought culture and unity to Staten Island on Sunday, Sept. 13. Families and community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[129994,129995,129992,129990,129993,129991,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-347476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-colorful-displays","tag-la-colmena","tag-mexican-community","tag-mexican-culture","tag-mexican-flags","tag-mexican-independence-day","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\/347476","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=347476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}