The ninth annual Puerto Rican Parade and Festival in Sunset Park is set for June 8, beginning at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. The event will feature colorful floats, vintage cars, and motorcycles, culminating in a music festival at 6:30 p.m. near Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street. Organized by community group El Grito, the parade celebrates the resilience and spirit of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Esteemed figures Nelson Walter Canals Martínez and Aurora Flores Hostos will serve as padrino and madrina, highlighting contributions to Puerto Rican culture and activism.
"Since 2015, the Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade and Festival have turned Brooklyn's 5th Avenue into a river of rhythm and color - a living pulse of Bomba y Plena echoing down the streets like an ancestral heartbeat."
"The celebration honors the resilience of the Puerto Rican diaspora - their stories, their struggles, their unyielding hope - while raising voices for justice both on the island and in Sunset Park itself."
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