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Fifth Avenue was packed with revelers and performers during the 50th Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. Celebrities, like "King" Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, were out in force, as were the politicians, including Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Eliot Spitzer, Senator Charles Schumer, Representative Jose Serrano, and Puerto Rico governor Anibal Acevedo-Villa.
Bloomberg said, "I think the most impressive thing is that people love to be living here and be part of New York and be New Yorkers. At the same time, they're very proud of their heritage, of where they come from." The parade's spirit and energy was contagious - according to the NY Times, "some police did a two-step."
The NY Sun reported that there were 80 arrests this year, up from 70 last year, but the Post says that 173 were arrested. Most were for wearing Latin Kings gang colors (black and yellow). Still, it seems relatively peaceful, especially when compared to the 2000 Central Park wildings.
The Daily News spoke to some native New Yorkers who love the parade: A Queens teenager explained, "I was born Nuyorican. Today shows how proud I am to be Puerto Rican."
Top photograph of some young parade revelers by Atomische.com; bottom photograph of Jennifer Lopez on a float by Horatio Baltz on Flicker
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How many people left town yesterday just to stay away from this? It's like all the PR flags came out, and everyone else went into hiding.
Seriously, I made a joke at work on Friday about Sunday being the most dangerous day of the year in Manhattan and the person responded immediately, "Is it the Puerto Rican Day parade?"
For better or worse, (probably worse) PR Parade day has an awful reputation.
I demand a wasp day parade.
As a resident on the UES, this is by far the most dangerous day.
I grew up in Jackson Heights, so I'm not paranoid by any standards, but when droves and droves of drunken boriquens come out, I'm scared.
Some things I saw that exemplified why they should abolish this parade and move it to the Bronx.
1) 4/5/6 line with people screaming and yelling with large flag poles taller than the train car being carried and waved while poking other passengers
2) constant and persistant honking from cars driving down lexington ave., park av., madison av.
3) garbage being thrown everywhere! not just on 5th Ave.
4) two angry puerto rican girls screaming profanties at each other and inciting a mini riot.
5) large roving gangs of puerto ricans whistling at every girl in their sight
6) WASTE of taxpayer money for the police security.
I'm sorry, but every negative stereotype of puerto ricans are shown on this day. I'm all for minority rights, equality, celebration etc., but this parade is an injustice.
I'm sorry, but I was in the city yesterday and I don't think the pictures Gothamist has selected is a fair representation of the PR parade. 90% of the people I saw were either trashy fat women stuffed into spandex or thugs looking for an excuse to riot.
It's not spandex. It's the blue terry-cloth daisy dukes. And 250-lb thirteen year olds with bras made out of mini flags
Most of that crap happens at every parade. this one just gets more media coverage for each infraction after the 2000 attacks.
Can someone please explain to me what all the Puerto Ricans are celebrating?
(sigh)
The "guests" are at is again...
I'd welcome an Investigation into the crime at the West Indies Parade. Or the Israel Parade. Let's compare the numbers.
Can someone please explain to me what all the Puerto Ricans are celebrating?
All the benefits of statehood, none of the costs.
#7, what, you don't wrap yourself in the flag of one of your or your ancestors' countries of origin, drive down the one part of town your people tend not to live, honking your horn, blowing whistles, and screaming at women on a randomly-chosen holiday not celebrated in your country of origin? You're weird.
Gothamist, please stop using the word "wilding." It was first used to describe the 1989 attack of a woman jogger in Central Park, an attack that led to the wrongful conviction of five kids. It really has nothing to do with the public molestation of dozens women that occurred in 2001.
The two incidents are completely dissimilar and to use the word wilding just sounds sort of stupid.
Gothamist, please stop using the word "wilding." It was first used to describe the 1989 attack of a woman jogger in Central Park, an attack that led to the wrongful conviction of five kids. It really has nothing to do with the public molestation of dozens women that occurred in 2001.
The two incidents are completely dissimilar and to use the word wilding just sounds sort of stupid.
I'll unguest myself and take credit for #1,5, and 9. I had never gotten around to signing up.
when do you all get together and decide to dress your Happy Meal-fed, big breasted 10 year olds like prostitues?
Matuko,
Wilding
n.
1. A plant that grows wild or has escaped from cultivation, especially a wild apple tree or its fruit.
2. A wild animal.
3. Slang The act or practice of going about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others.
I'd say that covers what happened in 2k pretty well.
The mayor really loves J-Lo but who could blame him.
He really let's his guard down when he's with her. He likes them hot and spicy.
From Jen Chung:
Also, the then-chairwoman of the Status of Women Committee, Women's City Club of New York, referred to the post-parade attacks as a wilding incident.
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E1D8123EF93BA35757C0A9679C8B63
More muffin tops than you can shake a stick at.
Bald fat guys with skinny legs and tattoos.
Grandmothers attempting to look hot.
Thugs with bandannas and flags and oversized shoes.
Only 364 days until the next one...
I demand a wasp day parade.
It's called rush hour. Happens every day.
All the benefits of statehood, none of the costs.
Yeah #9, except you forget to mention no right to vote in national elections, no representration in Congress and lots of land for military maneuvers (ie. bomb sites). Why all the nastiness? I myself have been to the parade only once because I hate the large crowds, but can't Puerto Ricans get one day of the year to celebrate without being put down?
#20:
perhaps they should use that one day per year to squash stereotypes, instead of reinforcing them
#20, I think you missed the mildly facetious tone of my comment, as it was a minor oversimplification made to sound like a slogan.
Why all the nastiness? Because the parade brings out the nastiness in many of the Ricans who choose to participate.
I'm a little disappointed at this year's parade.
For starters I wish they didn't let that No Talent hack Ricky Martin march.
And secondly I'm surprised they didn't use Jennifer Lopez's ass as a float this year. Theres enough room on her ass for Puerto Rican in New York, with room to spare.
Let's celebrate Puerto Rican penis of power day!
Long live the well-hung Puerto Rican!
#20: To celebrate what?
Oh come on 20, you're going to deny that having the streets noticeably barren from 138th st north to Westchester County was a nice surprise?
Ok so those of us who aren't like those Puerto Ricans stay away from the parade b.c the people who make us look bad are there. It's a cycle that never shows what we really look like. The girl next door or the guy in your next door cubicle. Recently I heard that City Island (the cape cod of the Bronx) has had a hispanic boom. And it wasn't said in disgust or with sarcasm. It was just a comment. And if the City Island PRicans and other Americanized PRicans had marched instead then that parade would have given St Pat's or Columbus's a run for their money.
Let's not forget Fleet Week and its "glory" or St Pat's Parade and the mess it caused in cities like Hoboken.
80-130 arrests... very nice...
how many arrests were there during the thanksgiving day parade or the st patricks? how about the arrest tally for the israeli day parade or the iranian day parade???
the very fact that the puerto rican parade is known as a gansta parade is pathetic and community leaders should be ashamed, but as usual, they're not—instead, they're proud!
you go girlfriend!
Are Puerto Ricans even the most common hispanics in NY anymore? How many arrests were there during Chinese New Year or San Gennaro?
Aside from the person who stated "benefits of statehood, none of the costs" no one has explained to me what Puerto Ricans have to celebrate...
Poster #3 mentioned "every negative stereotype of Puerto Ricans" shows up at this parade. I agree. I have co-workers who purposely stay home or plan their weekend activities around the parade in fear of their safety. Being half Puerto Rican, I needed to see for myself if all the negative rumors are true and attended the parade a few years ago; sadly they are. I left feeling sad and very scared for NYC's Hispanic future.
I'm still waiting for an answer with some positivity and genuine honesty...
Yeah, I wasn't into the packs of Puerto Rican's walking around on the JMZ platforms at Delancey yesterday blowing whistles as loudly as possible. I have hearing damage, and it was painful, literally. The kids had the whistles and the ignorant parents did nothing.
On the way back via JMZ, there was a pack taking up half the subway car I was on, banging and screaming the whole way. Like maniacal wind-up toys. Great job.
Should have used THIS picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crazyunclejoe/19032525/
if we're serious about getting rid of occupied territories, then puerto rico needs to go... why is it exactly that we occupy them?
Whoa #31. Is she pregnant or what?
25th Hour always comes to mind at this time (quote from the Ed Norton as Monty Brogan soliloquy): "F-ck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst f-ckin' parade in the city. "
Oh dear, that poor girl is quite misguided in the dressing department. I often wonder how parents let their children out of the bathroom like that.
i was speaking with a security guard at the GM building and was asking him why a glass buffer was fixing the glass at the apple store... and he said punks from the parade used diamond studs to scratch their tags into the glass...
"... no one has explained to me what Puerto Ricans have to celebrate..."
PRIDE my friend. That is enough reason to pretty much celebrate everything. Just ask the Irish ,West Indian Parade goers, etc..
#37, I believe the Irish have the parade on a holiday, Unless "St. Patrick's Day" is Gaelic for "Irish Pride and Beer Day." The West Indies parade is associated with Carnaval, which is Spanish for "BOOOOOOOOOBIES!!"
The PR parade as far as I can tell, is not associated with any holiday.
the PR Parade was the answer to "we don't have a parade, but we like to destroy things and cause havoc."
Puerto Ricans are so proud of their culture and heritage, they don't need an official holiday or a coherent reason to celebrate. They can get up December 14th and start marching in the streets chanting P-U-E-R-T-O R-I-C-O!!
From what I can tell, they don't even need coherent speech to celebrate.
Puerto Ricans:
1. have a high number of high school drop outs
2. work low paying jobs due to lack of education
3. many do not have insurance or retirement plans
3. many live in poverty
4. many live in concentrated poor areas often called barrios or ghettos in cities, such as New York.
4. many have a large number of female headed households where there are small children and no adult men (for financial support & well-being of the family)
5. often rent housing & can't afford to own their own homes
6. know very little about their culture and history outside of food, popular music and recognizing their flag
7. Outside of the Indian Day Parade, when else do city shops barricade their windows and close shop?
8. Outside of the wilding where girls were attacked during the PR Day Parade, have you heard about a parade where this type of behavior occured? And some would say the police didn't get involved because they were too afraid...
9. Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez are 2 of the most recent parade marshalls: where are the important people, like politicians, scientists, authors or teachers?
10. Why is every Puerto Rican I personally know afraid to go this event?
Again, what do Puerto Ricans have to be proud about?
Wow, #42, you have a racism Mad Libs template ready to whip out with [insert race to insult] conveniently at the top?
know very little about their culture and history outside of food, popular music and recognizing their flag
And you just described the majority of Americans. Great! You're an equal opportunity uninformed bigot.
Yeah #9, except you forget to mention no right to vote in national elections, no representration in Congress and lots of land for military maneuvers (ie. bomb sites).
Then become a state?
Wow!!! I didn't know the day after the Puerto Rican Day Parade was Bash Puerto Ricans Day! Here are a few things to consider from a Nuyorican:
1) the PR parade is the biggest parade in NYC attracting over 2.5 million people.
2) Not all of the parade attendees are Puerto Rican (believe it or not) since there aren't even that many Puerto Ricans in the US.
3) the number of arrests made at the parade is relatively minor considering the huge crowd.
4) Not all of the people arrested for the "wilding" in 2000 were PR. In fact, most were not.
5) Puerto Ricans are not immigrants. The US took PR from Spain in 1898 and all have been granted US citizenship since 1917.
6) Not all Puerto Ricans are trash that drop out of school, lack insurance and live in the ghetto.
7) If any of you have ever been to PR, then you would know why Puerto Ricans are so proud.
The posters on this blog merely reinforce the fact that there is a whole lot of ignorance and racism in this great, big city of ours. So much for tolerance. Thank you fellow Gothamists for giving me an eye full on this great blog!
I hate the Puerto Rican parade as much as I hate all the other parades in this city.
I say ban 'em all.
Saturdays and Sundays are so much nicer when there aren't massive crowds and traffic to worry about for everyone, white, black and brown...
Posted by; "Still Not Amused" While I agree with some of the sentiments posted here . Every race has it's own particular problems and no one group is perfect . Let's review shall we, The Irish have their parade and it's based on pride in beating there women,& how much they can drink in one sitting ! (I calls them the way I sees them folks)Dominicans, "Oh hell Who am I kidding here ! There all in the same group so why not describe them as such . All Hispanic cultures here in N.Y. all act the same at their parades ! They "Wileout", Get drunk, Start fights amongst themselves, Vandalize property (Which is the reason most businesses board-up their properties for the parades) ! After the festivities are done they continue "Celebrating" on the way home, OR to another party . I can't begin to tell how many accidents I witnessed Sunday nite due to these clowns acting the fool . I digress, You can't blame all the Ricans for the acts of the ignorant group . The point made with regards to there being no Public Officials Representing the parade goes the length of the proverbial field of reason in my opinion ! Sadly, The organizers have no clue with regards to remedying this problem . If they want to be view as "Classy" then change the theme of the parade . I think it's a sad day when businesses along the route decide to close-up for that day specifically to avoid this parade .
Im sitting here reading all these comments about the Puerto Rican Day Parade and all i see is raacism ignorance and a bitter look on the celebration. you talk about what are we celebrating we are celebrating our culture here in New York. The Latino Community has a big sense of pride in our culture and heritage, you say the parade doesnt represent that but thats only because you look at nothing but the negative. You want to talk bout how many people were arrested. In all honesty over 400 hundred people were arrested. Knowing that you will most likely said they were engaging in deviant behavior. No, sorry i stood there watching family memebers and friends get thrown against a wall or told to sit on the side walk for doing absolutely nothing while the real hoodlums wearing red bandanas yelling "brrratt" and other annoying sound affects were free to continue going on after a quick frisk. Why cant us Puerto Ricans celebrate our day in peace without having to go down to central bookings to find our friends and family. You all sit there and cristize the way we look and act talking about over weight females and bald men with tattoos well if i remember correctly i see the same thing when they show pictures etc from the other parades that are "white parades"
If you love PR so much, Papi, why are you here? Seriously.
Oh yeah, it's the free food and medical care that I (a hard-working-but-poor blanquita) can't even qualify for.
And #31: she'd be considered a real prize in my neighborhood (El Barrio).
#45, why let a thing like facts get in the way?
Unfortunately, too many people use the anonymity of the Internet to let loose their racist tendencies.
Oddly, Puerto Ricans are not all welfare cases, criminals, drug dealers, etc. The majority are law abiding, tax paying citizens.
But like I said, why let something like the facts get in the way of some people here who desperately need to be an anonymous racists?
I can't believe that some people think the Puerto Rican Day Parade is really that dangerous. I attended the parade by myself on Sunday and I had a blast. However, I think most of you posh New Yorkers are soft in general. I'm from Maryland, and it is a hard fact that you can't walk the streets alone in Baltimore at anytime being an out of towner. Your precious little city is six times safer than the one I call home. I saw many latin king gang members wearing yellow and black bandanas slumped in handcuffs on the concrete paths of central park in Manhattan last Sunday. They all looked like harmless, naive teenagers in big t-shirts. Where I live, latino thugs affiliated with Central American gangs are nothing to play with. MS-13 gang members are real hardened thugs who will not hesitate to cut you up like a thanksgiving turkey for wearing their colors. This is because most gang members in MS-13 grew up in El Salvador during a bloody civil war, not in post-Giuliani New York City. Ultimately, I think that the media magnifies the negative stereotypes associated with this parade to tarnish the reputation of the Puerto Rican people, particularly in NYC.
un gran bochorno.
I am a New York born PUERTO RICAN, what makes me most proud of being PUERTO RICAN is that it sets me apart from all the bigots who spew their hate and prejudice as demonstrated on this blog. My people are hospitable, share generously even when resources are sparse, and have no hate in their hearts not even for those who have invaded our homeland, interfered with our political development toward sovereignty, exploited our labor through substandard wages, subjected our women to sterilization abuse, sacrificed our young men to be maimed or killed in wars that have nothing to do with the interests of the Puerto Rican people, for decades used our Precious Island and its offshore islands for military installations and bombing practice and still no inkling of retaliation for the hate expressed toward Puerto Ricans by their neighbors in liberal progressive New York. The question shouldn't be what do Puerto Ricans have to be proud about but rather what do the bigots who pose that question have to be proud about? Shame on all bigots!
wow.
i'm really proud that in our big diverse city (where we judge the south and the midwest and everywhere that isn't as liberal as us) we still have conversations like this.
this makes me physically ill...i'm moving to...europe?
I'm a white irish/polish/hungarian north american man. My message to all of you is this:
Stop singling out people based on their race.
Ask yourself this: Are you a racist? Do yo ulike being singled out in a negative light?
Think about it for a second - This kind of talk just hurts. Remember how it felt when you were discriminated or diminished? Why should anyone be made to feel less-than for being born as they are? And who are you to do this to people?
Hate offers no wisdom, no strength, and no vision. Be strong enough to do what's right because it's right. Start giving people room to be themselves.
This is one life that we've all got, do you want to live it spending your life being hateful, judgmental, and arrogant cynics? If so, please do the rest of us a favor and kill yourself.
Do you need something think about, how about the obvious? There were hundreds of thousands of people celebrating at the parade that day. Let's say there were 200,000. Out of that, there were approx 200 arrests. That's .001% crime! Only a thousandths of a percent. That's about an average day in NYC, no?
I'm not condoning any of the criminal activities. My point is that the vast majority of people in attendance were mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and grandparents and children.
They are the people who get hurt by these words, the families. They are the people who get resentful when they are attacked, and I don't blame them when they do. I do too. If you treat people like criminals you will get treated in the worst way. The hate cycle needs to stop with you.
Who cares how someone goes about celebrating their culture. Who cares how they might dress or how people choose to express themselves... From what I saw, it was mostly laughing and signing and dancing. Yea, that's right I went to the parade, and I had a great time.
Don't be a victim of your own racial attitudes, overcome that shit. You could become a leader in your world, in your family, and in yourself.
- I'm a white irish/polish/hungarian-north american man, and I've just spoken to all of you with love.
I keep asking why any group from another country would have a parade here to celebrate their country and no one has an answer except to call me a bigot. It's a fair question. I'm not saying go back, but if you love it so much why did you leave? Or if you were born here why don't you go live there? I would not move to France and then have a YAY USA parade. It makes no sense.
Why the Puerto Rican day parade?
The Puerto Rican day Parade was meant for new-yoricans to celebrate their culture. Why New-yorican specifically (instead of puerto rican), because they are not considered true puerto ricans by those from the island and were not (and sadly, apparently are still not) considered true Americans by the people on the mainland.
Why in the UES?
Because El barrio (the main location where most Puerto Ricans settled when they came to the mainland in the '30s and 40s) is located around the UES. It is rumored that one of the most famous and accomplished of Puerto Rican poets, Julia De Burgos, died on 105th and 5th ave -- the site of el museo del Barrio. I can not say with certainty how far south el barrio extended at the time, but I imagine that the parade started at the end of el barrio and continued south into the UES as a sign to those people that discriminated against them that New-yoricans were here to stay.
Unfortunately, the sentiments the original organizers aimed to dispel are still present today.
I'm a pasty white Irish guy who married a dark Puerto Rican girl from Brooklyn. We have three mixed kids who are kind of brown, but not really. Let's just say coffee, two creams.
The PR parade is fun, and even though my Spanish sucks, people are nice to me.
Also, I say to my kids that if someone ever tells them America ain't a melting pot, they should look at themselves because they are the melting pot,being Iricans and such.
The Puerto Rican parade does bring the worst of society in one place. Unfortunetaly, people put "race" or ethnicity behind this ideology of ghettoness. It is nothing to do with being Puerto Rican, but instead it's about the culture that surrounds them. It's about the ghetto mentality, and about how the media brainwash these kids into acting like that. Did you ever see a 45 yr old puerto rican female acting crazy? Hardly.
Stop emphasizing ethnicity, and focus on the real issue with our society, which is educating our children.
I still don't understand how people of non brown skin hate everyone other than their own. I mean the 1 thing the browns have in common is that we all have had our lands, culture and people invaded by white europeans. why do you hate violence so much (cause you're so good at it...) when it's someone other than a white person committing the violence. I mean that is how whites have advanced, they beat everyone else to the chase on robbing , plundering and destroying people. How does it feel to live such a hypocritcal life?
"I mean the 1 thing the browns have in common is that we all have had our lands, culture and people invaded by white europeans."
How many "white europeans" live in Puerto Rico? Invaded? Are you serious? "The Browns", as you call them, are the majority in NYC, and in 50 years, will be the majority in many European countries and all of the US. Who is invading whom? By the by, Europe was invaded by "the brown" Mongols, Huns, Carthaginians, Arab/North African Muslims at different times dating back thousands of years. In many of these invasions (especially the Mongols), great atrocities were committed, whole cities sacked and burned, and European women and children were raped and carried off into slavery.
The word "slave", comes from Slav, as the Eastern European slavic peoples were sold as slaves in the Middle East, North Africa, and central Asia for more than 1,000 years (predating the Africa to America slave trade). Didn't they teach you that in the publik skoolz that white people's taxes pay for?
People are complaining about the Puerto Rican day parade... Why? Are you forced to go? I don't think anyone puts a gun to your head making you go. Have any of you been attacked by a Puerto Rican on the day of the parade? whats wrong with celebrating your culture? Like post 53 said, Puerto Ricans give even when they have little, and are very hospitable. I can't believe that it's the year 2007 and we still have people with such ignoracnce as to down someones race. What the hell is wrong with you people? Last I checked, we live in the same country, a country that takes pride in having diversity. Uh oh, if they had a parade b/c we're diverse, would you guys still be downing it? If you (those who are complaining) had a parade for your race/religion/pride/whatever, would you complain. "What do Puerto Ricans have to be proud of?" Well, let's see: I could go on for days listing why we are proud people. But why do that when I could give one reason: We are Puerto Rican, isn't that reason enough? I honestly hope that you have pride for your race. Somebody above posted a comment stating "if you love PR so much then why not go back". Yes, Puerto Rico is beautiful, but why would you have to be in that place to express your pride? I don't know, but I feel like I just wasted my time talking to all of the ignorant people on this blog. You'll never change so who am I to try to change you...... If only you had the same attitude.
Unfortunately every Puerto Rican I have come across (and there have been quite a few in different situations) and they have all been the most racist group, yes group of people I have ever had the unfortunate experience of ever being in the same vicinity of. Are you the 51st state yet or not? Then don't try to act like I victimize you just because I am light-skinned and live in the United States, the place that you like to come to and complain about but don't want to contribute taxes to - yet we protect Puerto Rico and let Puerto Ricans obtain services. I am sick of working hard and doing all of the things I need to do, minding my own business, only to have rude, bullying and racist Puerto Ricans come to the United States of America and bitch and make trouble. I say go back to Puerto Rico and US governemnt - cut them loose.
This is for number [41]
I am a New York Rican. This is what I accomblish in my life. Considering alot of opressive Americans trying to keep me down.
1: Was a pro boxer/Muay thai. Fighting everywhere even when I was rob of fights I still keeped on going.
2: I got my high school diploma and college degree in computer science.
3: I bought three homes, one in NYC, one in California and one in Thailand.
4: Served this country in the us military. Even with a very ungrateful people. I still served with my heart. Though not with pride.
5: Definetly not afraid of going to the Puerto Rican parade.
6: Puerto Rican women are no different from the wild white American women.
This is for number [41]
I am a New York Rican. This is what I accomblish in my life. Considering alot of opressive Americans trying to keep me down.
1: Was a pro boxer/Muay thai. Fighting everywhere even when I was rob of fights I still keeped on going.
2: I got my high school diploma and college degree in computer science.
3: I bought three homes, one in NYC, one in California and one in Thailand.
4: Served this country in the us military. Even with a very ungrateful people. I still served with my heart. Though not with pride.
5: Definetly not afraid of going to the Puerto Rican parade.
6: Puerto Rican women are no different from the wild white American women.
TO MATTY!
there is a wasp day parade....it's called the colombus day parade celebrating when the europeans came to the americas...brought disease, killed the natives in mass genocide, took the land, stole the gold and resources, raped women and acquired great wealth.....
Silence is golden..
Hey, folks.
If you don't like Latinos, you probably should not live in New York City.
Being as there are close to 3 million of them here.
Perhaps you might consider an Aryan Nations bunker in Idaho? You might feel more comfortable in the company of fellow racists!
Incidentally, most of the so called "Latin Kings" arrested at the parade were people who had committed the serious "crime" of WEARING A YELLOW T SHIRT!!!
Apparently, that's a felony now, if you're a certain color.