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Labor Day Parade 2023

Live Stream, Lineup, Route, Start Time

Labor Day New York

We all love parades and the Labour Day Parade in New York is a key part of the annual West Indian Carnival that takes place in the city each September bringing flotas, mas bands, masquerade outfits, music and dancing, an incredible cultural celebration.

With the parade itself reserved for Labor Day, one of the few public holidays in the United States that gives everyone the day off, this means that there are huge crowds gathering in the streets to enjoy the celebrations. The West Indian Day Parade, as it is also known, is a key part of the celebrations, which also include a Junior Carnival parade, J'Ouvert and many other Caribbean carnival events.

Labor Day itself is an important day on the calendar, dedicated to the American labor movement and the various advances made in their rights and achievements through the years.

The New York carnival associated with Labor Day has actually been taking place each year since the 1920's, originally based in Harlem but later moving out to the current Crown Heights location in Brooklyn in 1964. The parade draws an estimated crowd of 2 million out onto the streets to watch the festival of colour, music and dancing.

Date

The West Indian Labor day parade for 2023 is on Monday 4th September and normally attracts crowds in excess of 2 million!

Full list of events, once announced will be available here: West Indian American Day Carnival Association 2023

Parade Details

The Brooklyn Labor Day parade is one of the more informal events you're likely to encounter, in fitting with the relaxed Caribbean attitude to life. The Brooklyn parade is a key part of the wider carnival that also includes a Dimanche Gras celebration on the Sunday and a J'Ouvert parade on the Monday morning from 6am. The main parade steps off at around 11am on Eastern parkway and heads to Flatbush and lasts most of the day.

There is also the NYC Labor Day Parade, normally held the weekend after Labor Day, so the 9th September 2023. This parade kicks off at 10AM at 5th Ave. and 44th Street in Manhattan. This is a FREE event. The nearest Subway station is the 42nd St Bryant Park B,D,F,M station.  It's also near the 5th Ave/53rd St. E,M station.

The event is organized by the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, which is a federation of 300 unions representing 1.3 million workers in the NYC area, which is the nation's largest municipal labor federation.

Social & Streaming

There has been live stream coverage from the New York Labor day parade in previous years, with the local TV and radio stations the most likely sources of online links.

It looks like you'll find coverage on ABC7ny and also on WPIX 11 from 3om

Previous years live streaming was provided by the Wiadca carnival site, so we would be hopeful of seeing the same again this year:

Carnival parade stream

There is also the official Facebook Page: WIADCA 2022

We also expect to see some live updates from the parade on the local CBS New York channel - you can watch this onlin here:

CBS NYC live stream

Another option you may like to consider is to check out some of the local live webcam views, there are absolutely loads in and around New York, including several at key positions in the area. Check out the webcam listings here:

New York webcams

There are some fantastic videos from previous years parades on Youtube, helping give a flavour of what to expect. You can expect to see this updated with streams from this year's event pretty soon after it finishes:

Labor Day Parade videos

Hotels and Accommodation

There is never really a cheap time to visit New York in terms of hotel prices, which remain among some of the highest in the world, but one small consolation is that Brooklyn does tend to be more affordable than Manhattan, so if you want to be close to the parade and carnival events then it may save your budget a little.

You can check availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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