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Happy Monday in Brooklyn, which just made history on Saturday.
This weekend marked the first Jamaican Rising Day Parade ever celebrated in the United States. Thousands of Brooklynites decked out in green and yellow and visitors from around the world gathered on Church and Ocean Avenues before marching north through the heart of the Jamaican community to Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Garden.
“Jamaica is raising its flag, and here we are, the first of its kind in the United States, and let's just enjoy the joy,” Organizer Bill Tinglin said on the NPR show All Things Considered.
Organizers called the event, which commemorates the 64th anniversary of Jamaican independence from British colonial rule, the first in a new Brooklyn tradition. There are approximately 195,000 people of Jamaican descent in New York City, according to census records.
“Next year, Jamaica celebrates 65 years of political independence. So this year, where we just test the waters a little bit, just to get individuals riled up and ready for Jamaica 65,” the parade’s co-chair and director Lawman Lynch told CBS News.
Jamaica Day Parade attendees weren’t the only ones celebrating. This weekend also marked the annual Italian-American Giglio Feast in East Harlem, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the Dominican Day Parade in Midtown Manhattan and — another Brooklyn special — the annual Brooklyn Pakistan Mela — a major street festival held along Coney Island Avenue in Midwood/Kensington to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day.
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“Delirium,” a play adapted and directed by Igor Golyak based on Eugène Ionesco’s “Frenzy for Two, Or More,” will make its New York premiere at the Space at Irondale in Fort Greene this September.
Water cascaded into the concession area at a Regal theater in Sheepshead Bay during heavy thunderstorms Thursday night while many customers remained in line for their popcorn and snacks.
Police are seeking the public’s assistance identifying a suspect or suspects wanted in connection with the shooting of two men on Raleigh Place in East Flatbush on July 15.
A man was shot to death early Sunday morning near the Canarsie Pier.
A Manhattan boat captain is facing federal charges after a boating accident near Liberty Island left a woman and baby dead over the weekend.
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On this day in 1935, the Eagle reported, “American Radiator Company is introducing a new air conditioning unit designed for use in new homes valued at from $3,000 to $8,000 and costing only a little more than half as much as an electric refrigerator.”
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