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With the 10th Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade around the corner on Sunday, the Mayor is asking businesses along Fifth Avenue not to board up. In past years, violent incidents have caused damage to some stores and apartment buildings, making some owners think it's better to play it safe during the parade, which has had some controversy, most infamously the 2000 wildings in Central Park. For instance, the Post reports that metal fences are being put up at 1035 Fifth Avenue while tall green panels are being placed at 820 Fifth. Mayor Blooomberg is insinuating that these actions are an insult to Puerto Ricans, though some wonder if this is his way to gain Hispanic support.
The parade begins at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street at noon. It will be broadcast on WNBC.
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Did they shutter their Property For the St. Patrick Day parade? How about the Dominican Parade?
Being Puerto Rican, I suppose I'm biased, but Oddly enough I've seen more rowdy people at other parades.
No, the buildings don't board up for other parades. But maybe they leave puke buckets out for the St. Patrick's Day Parade?
Possibly. I didn't want to single out One particular parade, but I've seen lots of fight break out at other Parades (PR Day too, unfortunately) where people started throwing bottles and food but still no shuttering of Buildings. Gee, I just feel so Apreciated...
Go Figure.
When I lived in Chicago, The eve of Puerto Rican Day was the most crazy for the year. Maybe you guys just love to party
This is only an issue at the puero rican day parade, and is a not-so-subtle case of racism.
Actually public drinking at the St. Paddy's parade hasn't been allowed for some years now--and the cops do rigorously enforce this policy. I think this stems from an incident where some guy was badly injured or killed in an alcohol-fueled street brawl.
Jeeze, two years ago my car was parked near the celebration, someone smashed my passenger side window and stole my deck and briefcase. I don't understand how all the people there could just possibly stand and let this happen
Well, K.T.R.S., I suppose the drinking I saw 3 years Ago was an exception to the rule. Granted, I didn't stick around and these 4 guys brown bagged it on Park Ave, but it was drinking.
K.P., I'm sorry about you car, but I wonder: what is the incident of petty Crime during other Parades? I know that muggings and pickpockets happen like any other day of the year, but I wonder how bad it is?
Nonetheless, the people boarding up the buildings are sending an insulting message to the Community and to the Police whom they seem to think will sit idly by.
what's ironic is that most of the workers who have to put up the barricades and plywood-on-windows on 5th Ave are PR or Dominican.
Sure, kristin, and those girls who got groped a couple of years ago were just trying to make this parade look bad. I don't know what the cirme stats are for each parade, but people should be free to board up their property during a parade if they are worried about vandalism without being called racist.
I'm gonna be the bad guy here...living on the UES sucks during the parades. Your usually quiet neighborhood gets turned into Dante's Inferno. The PR Day Parade is just as bad as the St. Patrick's Day Parade. For example:
Crazy traffic jams. Drunken a$$holes pick fights with anything/anyone standing still. There are puddles of puke and stacks of beer cans everywhere. Car horns honking to a musical beat at 6am. Ppl. pissing in front of your building as if they're animals marking their territory. It's insanely claustrophobic. Guys check you out like you're a piece of meat, and all the alcohol makes them think it's OK to pinch an ass cheek. It all sucks.
Most ppl. in the neighborhood either hole up in their apartments or leave for the day/weekend to avoid all of the above. I'm thinking a whole neighborhood's mass exodus is slightly more offensive than a dozen or so buildings boarding up.
In all, it has very little to do with ethnicity as it does history - the whole wilding thing a few years back was scary and it's blemished the idea of the PR Day Parade. If something as crazy as wilding happened at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, you'd best believe that UESers would be boarding up for that too!
Bloomberg should stick a pipe in it...he doesn't need boards...he has that police box a hop, skip, and jump away from his townhouse on 79th/5th.
st. patricks day parade is enough to make you forgoe alcohol for a year and pretend to be german.
then again, i know folks from PR who pretend to be colombian on parade day, so it all works out, i guess.
parades tend to be an exhibition of all the best group stereotypes (for better and for much worse) at once.
How about this: the businesses don't board up. And, if anything bad happens to any of them this year, the parade is never held again along 5th Avenue. And the Mayor personally pays for any damages.
If there is a history of damage to stores or buildings during the parade, this it is reasonable for the owner to board up whether it is politically correct or not.
there aren't any businesses on fifth ave on the parade route. it's all residential. they put the boards up so people don't piss in their bushes.
and i thought the word "wilding" died with discovery that the kids who were jailed for the central park jogger attack were wrongfully convicted...
Angel, Is there a history of Damages to stores or Buildings?
As an asian, I look forward to running amok at every parade I can and having it blamed on another race.
Asians run amok on a daily basis simply with their lack of driving skills.
there must be a blizzard in hell right now because for once I agree with Nola.
Earl - what do driving skills (or the lack thereof) have to do with the PR parade?
rog - there are actually quite a few businesses along the parade route which begins at 44th & 5th and proceeds north to 86th St.
Personally I do not think racism is involved here.
The problem is idiots in mass.
The past history of the PR Day parade justifies peoples, reaction.
I would feel the same way if it were Germans, Irish, Penguin, Asian, Italian, Giraffe, Croatian, etc...
Lets face it all parades are all a pain in the ass in some way.
The PR day parade just has a history of problems, with people behaving badly. (as do other parades)
Personally I feel the Puerto Rican community should view the negativity to the parade as a reason to step up and show that it can be done WITHOUT property damage, fights, sexual assaults...
But no... just cry Racism instead of addressing the real problem that exists which is immature behavior and a disregard for property and people (the wilding bullshit)
Having a parade is not a RIGHT it is a PRIVALIGE a community must EARN and keep earning that privilege by it's behavior.
In other words stop your bitching and police your own. Or loose the right to a parade.
Tired of bullshit in an overly PC world.
Manny, you're all caps emphasis would have been more compelling if you spelled privilege correctly.
My friend lives b/w 5 and madison along the route. She says this is the only parade day where her doorway gets soaked in urine. She even caught some people peeing on it once and asked them to please do that elsewhere and they laughed and got their friends to pee on it too, waving their doodads around. I don't know if they were puerto rican, but without fail on only that parade day her apt door gets peed all over.
Two memorable images from previous PR parades: (1) a group of parade revelers with a large picnic cooler trying to take it into the Metropolitan Art Museum. (Who knows what they had in mind--use your imagination.)
(2) Parade celebrants with their portable barbecues with flames shooting out in front of 5th Ave. co-ops. (Probably not what the residents had in mind when they plunked down their $20+ million for an uber-exclusive residence.)
PR day parade is the worst day in NYC. They're like animals pissing on everything & deficating on the street. They stink.
PR Day is simply a day for criminal mischief. Flocks of PR running down the street vandalizing everything in sight. Caravan of flag draped cars jam the streets, as they honk their horn like there’s no tomorrow. I have nothing against pride in one’s nationality, but this is simply stupidity, and total lack of disregard for others. Of all the parades that take place in NYC, PR day is the worst.
Boarding up a $MM apartment is racism?!?! I see... Before some of you cry racism go out to Dover-Rico take a piss on a random P.O.S car 'pimped-out' with the latest in decals, neon lights, shiny exhaust, and a spoiler that looks like it came off an experiment at Boeing. As you are being stabbed, shot, be sure to take a count of the number of people crying "racism".
I can't think of another parade that attracts so many thugs, skanks, hoods, etc. I am sure it's not cultural but damn if they don't have more than their fair share of losers.
naw naw all uz r haters puerto ricans do it da best stop hatin boRiCuA....por siempre
Fuck you Brittany, learn some english and stay off the maury show.
L0ok, coño'z; first of all pR's day be s0o stuped ,wtf they thinkin they had and they braking,stealin,and pissin ll ova da place, Im Dominican(platano)and our parade be waayy better we not even legal and we act waay more mature then you all yall actin like a bunch of hood whore crack headz the way yall think yall hard..jajaja..eso algo del diablo and yall be rammin ppls cars wih them Broke down vainas yall try to pimp out..lmao
funny..k thats all the remarks..
Love NYC for all its parades. I go to all. St Pats, Easter, Puerto Rican Parade, and anything else that comes along. If you can't deal with crowds, subways and Parades or traffic.....You really should not be in NYC.
I have respect for my race as puerto rican american. But what I hate is when some of them act out of control. And other puerto ricans have to pay for their mistakes. If you are americans act like americans. And stop all of this nonsense. Remember it is a parade and it is a time to show respect for each other. I was born and race in chicago. But I never disrespect anyone around me. That is way I do not go to any of the puerto rican parades. No one owns you anything!
I as a Puerto Rican don't feel offended by them wanting to protect their Property if People were acting up and destroying others or my Property I would do the same. What I do feel offended is by some of the comments being made here. Just because some of the People at the Parade are acting rowdy does not mean everyone as a whole is trash. Puerto Ricans try to make the best out of their lives just as the rest of you meaning going to College, Working and maintaining a safe and steady home and it's just very sad to hear that People can make such judgments calls basing it on some bad apples. It’s very ignorant, idiotic and immature. It makes you just as bad and it’s very sad for you to make such assumptions.