Who's Afraid of the Puerto Rican Day Parade?

@nomnomnom:

Unfortunately, I live in Brooklyn and basically make a mental note to stay close to home. Honking car horns, revelers streaming from the subways, all the rest of it.

I feel the same way about Halloween, New Year's Eve, and St. Patrick's Day.

June 8? Thanks for the warning. I have friends on the east side who leave the city every year for the PR parade. I'll just do the usual and stay far away and hope for rain.

We need to stop this glut of parades. They all suck.

Or let's just create on big ass parade. Consolidation is the future. And to lead the parade of fools--Fat Al. Critical Mass can follow behind so that they can be easily arrested afterwards.

it already feels like puerto rican day everyday in bushwick, so i can't imagine what june 8 will be like :(((( i'm getting the hell out of dodge on sunday, that's for sure.

Who wants some action on the over/under for the number of arrests this year?

if hillary doesn't march will you believe she's a fake after all?

I don't mind it that much. They're proud of their culture so let them have their day and so their pride. Better than Saint Pat's with the Drunken Irish.

I just wish that the fat Puerto Rican women who want to show their pride would please chill with the tight clothing. The jelly rolls kill me

"our neighborhoods" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

That is retarded and hysterical on so many different levels.

They have a right to close any day they choose and shouldn't feel obliged to remain open on Puerto Rican Day. Next thing you know they'll be forced to serve (shudder) Armenians.

Hey, whitey, I mean, slappy,

Trust me. The PRs don't have any passion, expression, or flavor in their lives. They don't even have their own country. They are all dumb Americans, like the rest of us.

You're welcome for proving mine.

JacqueMehoff some of that Camel Toe will be mixed with the grotesque sight of Hippo Toe. I recommend you take extreme caution.

We dont bother anyone during their parades so stay away from us or you will have your pastey, grungey, not from New York anyway wannabe faces busted open with some hardcore fists. Dont go there.

How come the puerto rican and mexican food is so bad in NYC?

Personally find nationality-based parades annoying and avoid those designated areas like the plague. Think of all the money wasted to clean up after those huge, littering crowds.

Yeah, West Indian with Irish Day Patricks parade.

You should have busted the clerks face with a solid right to the jaw. Sure, you would have probably gotten shot by the responding cops but at least you would have busted up a RACIST hipster/chuppie . Then the Rev. Sharpton could have sued them for you getting you what you deserved. They are sickening in their hatred of people of color. They are destroying the Democrat party with their deep seated racism that they can no longer contain, its at the surface now.

You must not defer to these cowards. When they are trying to act hip in the store or restaurant, like when they try to speak spanish when they order their food, laugh in their racist faces and remind them what empty, phony, culture-less fools they are.

East New York, the place where you "rich white dudes" are afraid to go... coward. By the way, I own my house, I dont rent like all of you worms that abandoned the hell holes you used to live in you in favor of NY.

But I see for sure you are one of the hipster wannabes that brags about how you are "keepin it real in NYC' when you go home to your boring hell holes but yet you hate the people of color in NYC that you flock to live with. I saw you trying to speak spanish when ordering tacos, you fool, I was the one laughing at you, fool. That bothers it right, I got your pathetic act down and am exposing you racist wannabe hipster/yuppies.

I'm Puerto Rican and I stay FAAAAAAAAAAAR away from the parade every year.

Enough said.

Nothing like a PR parade story to draw out the trolls. I've never heard that PR was armpit of Latin America or that PRcans are the white trash version of Latinos. Be that as it may, if you have never been to PR, you should go. It's a beautiful island and the people are much more genuine and friendly than the fake PRcans who flock to the parade each year, but have never been to the island. Please keep your nasty comments to yourself if you don't actually know what you are talking about.

envious of what culture? rattling your '98 nissan with reggaeton out of cheap subwoofers and eating big macs all day?

I was born in Bklyn and have lived in NYC my whole life. I've driven all over Puerto Rico and I also used to bang a gorgeous 'Rican chick on Blake Avenue in East New York. I've been the whitest white guy on Eastern Parkway during the Caribbean Day parade. But I still won't go to the PR parade because the people there have an established history of acting like animals.

And which culture is that? The one that has you dropping out of school at 16 so you can put chickens on rotisserie skewers?

"if Puerto Ricans are so damn happy about being Puerto Rican, why are they living in New York?"

You can substitute Puerto Ricans with:
Irish, Jews, Greeks, Italian, Haitian, Dominican, Germans, Polish, Norwegians, Cubans, Pakistanis, West Indians, Brazilians, Mexicans, Koreans, Chinese...

these are just some of the ethnic groups that I know of who holds parade in the NYC, no to mention those who don't have parades in NYC whoa re happily living in NY.

Who should then live in NYC?

"Who's Afraid of the Puerto Rican Day Parade?"

Judging by the comments on this thread? Most of Gothamist, it seems.

It's tough to live in this city when you're a closet racist hipster/yuppie originally from Ohio. Oh wait, you want to take "your" NYC back.

B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Jackass was his name-o.

Ok, Bingo, spotlight time: Statehood or independence for Puerto Rico? I for one, can't decide.

Bingo, you're a piece of work. Enjoy your hate. I'm sure you'll take it to your lonely grave.

The funny thing is that you're talking up Puerto Rico, but then you call me out for being a transplant. Either you're a transplant from PR or you were born and raised in NYC. If it's the former, then you should really go back and enjoy everything that little island has to offer you since this little island seems to have you pissed off all of the time. If it's the latter, then STFU about PR!

P.S. I'm not from TX.

i d rather be at the PR parade,,,
then to be around smelly Irish people,,,
They all smell like ham,,,,Plus white girls have no ass ,,,and yet they love PR ,,,men ,,,.
why when it rains on white people they smell like cold cuts....ha ha ha ,,,,
,,,,,O

lAST TIME I WENT TO THE WHITE IRISH PARADE ,,,I SAW ALOT OF DIRTY BABIES,,,WITH DIRTY FACES AND DIRTY FEET,,,IS THAT WHERE THE HAM SMELL COMES FROM,,,,,,

i WENT TO IRISH PARADE ,,,AND THIS GIRL HAD A SIGN THAT SAID KISS ME IM IRISH> SO I KISSED HER AND FOR SOME REASON SHE TASTED LIKE SALTINE CRACKERS AND I COULD GET THE SMELL OF HAM OFF ME,,,PUERTORICANS BEWARE,,,,IF YOU KISS WHITE PEOPLE THE SALT NEVER LEAVES YOUR LIPS,,,,OR THE SMELL OF HAM,,,,,

WHATS CRUNCHY ,,,SMELLY AND TASTE LIKE HAM,...

WHITE AMERICANS,,,ha ha ha ha

aLL PUERTORICANS THINK WHITE PEOPLE SMELL LIKE HAM AND BLACKS SMELL LIKE POPEYES CHICKEN,,,,

ONLY PEOPLE AFRAID OF THE PARADE ARE WHITES,,,BECAUSE THEY WE OUT NUMBER THEM,,,BUT WATCH HOW AFRAID THEY BECOME AND WATCH HOW ALL THE WHITES START TO KISS OUR ASSES FOR FEAR OF THEIR LIVES....COWARDS....STAY HOME,,,
DONT EVEN COME OUT ,,AND KEEP YOUR FILTHY BABIES INSIDE,,,
wHY HASNT ACS COME FOR ALL THE DIRTY WHITE HAM SMELLING BABIES,,,

Daily direct flights from LGA to San Juan are being cut, jimmyboy. Find yourself on one while they last.

Jimmyboy should consider going back on his meds.

OMG, jimmy's ten-post-in-less-than-an-hour rant about white people smelling like ham has just left me speechless. That's the wackest thing I've seen on Gothamist ever.

again Gothamist living up to it's current fame,
I see they even added a report this via Email, like that's going to help.

All snark aside, almost any criminal activity reported on Gothamist ends up in a anti-black/hispanic/immigrant/anything un-yuppie like argument in the comment boards. If an attacker's description is up and he is not white, its anti-whatever that person is. If there is a story and the information about the attacker isn't up, it takes about three comments to get to the racial epitaphs. And please do not hold it against me that I have ended up reading multiple posts on that site.

@ArtfulSlinger: So true. I stopped reading Gothamist years ago because all that sacchariny sweetness of the posts descends into the realm of anonymous racism in the comments whenever the post is on crime and the suspect description veers non-white.

What do you expect from a site whose two most prolific commenters go by the names of Spear Chucker and Baby Hitler?

I have lost respect for the parade and I am of Puerto Rican descent. The amount of crime that takes place during & after the festivities and the many hoodlums the parade attracts is not something to be proud of! We can be proud of who we are & where we came from, however, we have to carry ourselves in a respectful way. Our culture is not made up of rap music, forgetting your manners, men oggling at women and making gross comments in a disrespectful manner, pitbulls, thuggish people,... oh the list goes on and on. Sigh.

I do know that there are spectators at the parade who are respectful and are just having a good time, but leave for a "few" to ruin it for the entire bunch.