How to watch the New York Caribbean Carnival on Labor Day

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) — The New York Caribbean Carnival, one of the city’s biggest summer festivals, culminates with a parade and celebration streamed live on ABC7 New York on Labor Day, Sept. 2.

It’s the nation’s largest Caribbean cultural festival attracting more than a million jubilant participants and spectators.

The seven-hour event starts at 11:00 a.m. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Labor Day.

The parade features steel-pan and calypso bands in elaborate costumes that march down Eastern Parkway from Utica Avenue to a reviewing stand at Grand Army Plaza.

Eyewitness News reporter Phil Taitt is honored to serve as one of the parade’s grand marshals.

ABC7 New York will provide streaming coverage of the parade starting at noon at abc7ny.com, our mobile and connected TV apps, as well as our YouTube channel.

New York’s weekend-long Caribbean Carnival dates back to the 1920s when it’s believed to have started in Harlem before moving to Brooklyn in the mid-1960s where it continues to draw millions of people each year.

Click here for more information about the New York Caribbean Carnival.

WATCH the 2023 New York Caribbean Carnival parade

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