Town’s iconic Puerto Rican Day Parade returned to its full boisterous self Sunday after a two-year COVID hiatus, drawing a crowd of 1000's together with Mayor Eric Adams and different native pols.
A beaming Adams, flanked by metropolis Division of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, walked up the East Facet of Manhattan waving a Puerto Rican flag whereas carrying an identical white shirt and hat with the ensign emblazoned on them.
Hundreds of revelers decked out in Puerto Rican colours additionally braved the wet climate to begin at Fifth Avenue and forty third Road about 11 a.m. and stroll north to 79th Road.
US Secretary of Training Miguel Cardona, the son of Puerto Rican dad and mom, served because the parade’s grand marshal.
“¡Viva Puerto Rico!” Adams’ official mayoral account tweeted. “Slightly rain didn’t cease the most important Puerto Rican inhabitants outdoors of La Isla del Encanto itself from taking the streets to indicate their delight!”
Among the many New York politicians who participated within the march have been Gov. Kathy Hochul, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), state Lawyer Normal Letitia James, Adams’ predecessor and congressional candidate Invoice de Blasio, fellow New York tenth Congressional contender and metropolis Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and New York Secretary of State and former Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez.
Sunday’s parade was the primary main celebration since 2019 of the 8 million Puerto Ricans dwelling on the island and elsewhere, as a result of the occasion, which has been held since April 1958, was considerably scaled down in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus.
On Friday, Adam raised the Puerto Rican flag at Bowling Inexperienced Park in Downtown Manhattan to have fun the return of the full-fledged in-person parade.
“This metropolis says, ‘Mi casa, su casa. That is your metropolis. That is our metropolis,’” he mentioned. “And we’re right here collectively. And this is a crucial time. I’m trying ahead to this weekend.
“It’s only a highly effective second that the Puerto Rican neighborhood has performed a significant position in constructing this metropolis [on] so many ranges.”
Nationwide Puerto Rican Day Parade Board Chair Louis Maldonado mentioned in Might, “It is a milestone yr for the parade, and our return to Fifth Avenue is yet one more signal that [the city] and the Puerto Rican neighborhood are sturdy, resilient and as vibrant as ever,”
Yarimar Bonilla, of the Middle for Puerto Rican Research at CUNY, informed WNYC, “There’s a lot therapeutic that we have to do after this pandemic that has precipitated a lot stress.
“We want these neighborhood occasions to have fun ourselves and remind ourselves of who we're and what we might be once we come collectively.”
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