{"id":704677,"date":"2026-06-15T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:49:11","slug":"puerto-rican-day-parade-marches-through-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704677\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rican Day Parade marches through Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New Yorkers who weren\u2019t partied out after the Knicks championship<\/a> found another excuse to celebrate on Sunday as the National Puerto Rican Day Parade marched through Manhattan with pulsing music and vibrant colors. <\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of spectators lined Fifth Avenue under sunny skies to watch marchers decked out in red-white-and-blue. This year\u2019s honorees included rapper and singer Daddy Yankee, who served as grand marshal, and actor Anthony Ramos, who was part of the original Broadway cast of \u201cHamilton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew cheers as he clutched a small Puerto Rico flag and wore a Knicks<\/a> jersey over a shirt and tie. <\/p>\n

The event, which bills itself as America\u2019s largest cultural celebration, honors the contributions of Puerto Ricans on their home island and throughout the nation and world. It\u2019s a been a June tradition in the city since the late 1950s. <\/p>\n

U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez and jazz musician Charlie Sepulveda were recognized with lifetime achievement awards.<\/p>\n

The parade was traveling along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan from 44th Street to 79th Street, spanning 35 city blocks.<\/p>\n

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship Gala was held on Friday, celebrating academic excellence and student achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New Yorkers who weren\u2019t partied out after the Knicks championship found another excuse to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[179423,304413,119778,3827,88,793,25977,4227,2005,1999,5898,99,1505,795,10766],"class_list":["post-704677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anthony-ramos","tag-charlie-sepulveda","tag-daddy-yankee","tag-domestic-news","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-hip-hop-and-rap","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-puerto-rico","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-u-s-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}