Get us in your inbox

Search
  1. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  2. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  3. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade 

  4. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade 

  5. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  6. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  7. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  8. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  9. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  10. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  11. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  12. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  13. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  14. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  15. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  16. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  17. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  18. West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  19. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  20. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  21. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  22. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  23. West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  24. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  25. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  26. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  27. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  28. West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  29. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

  30. Photograph: Liz Clayman
    Photograph: Liz Clayman

    West Indian-American Carnival Parade

30 dazzling photos of the West Indian–American Carnival Parade 2014

The city's annual celebration of Caribbean culture wowed on Labor Day

Advertising

Around a million people flocked to Eastern Parkway on Labor Day for this year's West Indian–American Carnival Parade—a tradition that dates back to 1947, when the first NYC street parade was held in Harlem (it moved to Brooklyn in 1969). This year's festivities were every inch as glorious (and semi-naked) as you'd expect, in a year that's seen its fair share of glitter on the streets already, thanks to the Mermaid Parade and the NYC Pride March.

RECOMMENDED: Full guide to the West Indian Day Parade

Recommended
    You may also like
    You may also like
    Advertising