The parade is a tradition beloved by the Dominican community, but it is only the tip of the iceberg for our organization! For us, the Dominican Day Parade is much more than a parade.
Throughout the year, we hold various events including workshops, scholarships, food drives, the annual gala, and parade kick-off events in all five boroughs.
The Dominican Day Parade, Inc. is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, that organizes the annual parade and festivities that promote the richness of the culture, folklore and popular traditions of the Dominican Republic.
The organization strives to provide an understanding of the heritage and contributions of the Dominican community in the United States of America and throughout the world.
The mission of the Dominican Day Parade of New York City is to celebrate the richness of the Dominican culture, folklore, and popular traditions.
The Parade highlights promote and acknowledge the heritage and contributions of the Dominican community in the United States and throughout the world.
The parade is a tradition beloved by the Dominican community, but it is only the tip of the iceberg for our organization! For us, the Dominican Day Parade is much more than a parade.
Throughout the year, we hold various events including food drives, the annual gala, and parade kick-off events in all five boroughs.
Understanding the value of education, the Dominican Day Parade takes great pride in providing scholarships and mentor opportunities to exceptional students of Dominican descent.
Through the funds raised from our annual gala, we granted $200,000 in scholarships in 2019 to support awardees through college and post graduate institutions.
Helping these promising young people continue to excel in their future ventures allows us to achieve our primary goal: to support and celebrate the Dominican community!
THE NATIONAL DOMINICAN DAY PARADE: The Dominican Day Parade is a joyful celebration of all things Dominican. Each year, we come together in New York City to honor our heritage and culture and to recognize the many accomplishments Dominicans have made in United States, and around the world. With music, dancing, and over 10,000 marchers, there is plenty of fun to go around; this is an event you do not want to miss!
Moving Forward and uplifting our community takes perseverance, resiliency, hope, adaptation, growth, and transformation that will lead to a victory in all situations. The individuals we are recognizing this year all exemplify these attributes of Advancing la “Dominicanidad”
Wilton Cedeño, 2020 National Dominican Day Parade Chair, Maria Khury Co-Chair of the scholarship committee, and two scholarship recipients Rafael Baez and Daniela Peña Gomez discussed with Joe Torres from ABC how the Parade funds help students in this crisis.
A single float filled with Dominican Spirit made stops in a couple of New York City’s Dominican communities. The first stop was to honor the community in front of the United Palace in Washington Heights.
The second stop was to honor our first responders at the North Central Bronx Hospital in Norwood, The Bronx. The parade was started to celebrate Dominican culture, folklore, and traditions.
Organizers announced this year’s event with the theme 40 years of Uplifting, Empowering & Elevating the Dominican Legacy.
The parade’s Grand Marshal is New York City Department of Transportation commissioner and Dominican Republic native Ydanis Rodriguez.
Many Political leaders were on hand to support and march in the parade, which included: Kathy Hochul ,Governor of New York State, Mayor Eric Adams, Senator Charles Schumer, Congress member Adrienna Adams, New York City Council Speaker, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Congress Member Adriano Espaillat , Jumaane Williams, New York City Public Advocate, Brad Landers, New York City Comptroller, Bronx DA, Darcel D. Clark, Assembly Member David Weprin, Assembly Member Manny de Los Santos, and many more in attendance.
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Puerto Rican pride will be celebrated throughout New York City in its typically colorful, in-person fashion this Sunday as the iconic national parade returns to Manhattan following a two-year pandemic hiatus.
The 65th annual event along Fifth Avenue will celebrate the culture, arts, achievements and legacies of Puerto Rico and its people. The parade starts at 11 a.m. and stretches along the iconic Manhattan span between 43rd and 79th streets.
This year it is dedicated to the municipality of Cidra, Puerto Rico, which is also referred to as the Town of Eternal Spring, or el Pueblo de la Eterna Primavera.
See more details here. The festivities begin ahead of Sunday’s big parade, though. The parade organizers and Mayor Eric Adams were set to raise the Puerto Rican flag at Bowling Green Park in Lower Manhattan Friday afternoon to officially kick off the parade weekend. A Central Park Zoo fundraising gala follows Saturday night to support the National Puerto Rican Day Parade’s college assistance efforts.
“This is a milestone year for the Parade, and our return to Fifth Avenue is yet another sign that NYC and the Puerto Rican community are strong, resilient and as vibrant as ever,” National Puerto Rican Day Parade Board Chair Louis Maldonado said in announcing the planned return last month.
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TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS TO CELEBRATE 30TH ANNUAL QUEENS PRIDE PARADE
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER TO SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL OF QUEENS PRIDE PARADE AND FESTIVAL ON JUNE 5
On Sunday, June 5, 2022, from 12n-6pm, tens of thousands of New Yorkers flocked to Jackson Heights to celebrate the 30th Annual Queens Pride Parade and festival, one of the City’s largest celebrations of LGBT rights and advocacy, LGBT Network President and CEO David Kilmnick announced.
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will headline the event as Grand Marshal, along with nonprofit advocacy organizations Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo, and the Caribbean Equality Project who have also been named Grand Marshals.
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The Event started at Kings Theatre Brooklyn New York, the program started with The moderator introducing Detective Makia Brown, who performed the National Anthem, Firefighter Regina Wilson, Fire Department performed the Lift Every Voice and Sing.
After that the Religious leaders were introduced and bestowed a blessing and bought greetings for the Mayor. Imam Hassan Akbar, Bishop Victor Brown, Rabbi Moishe Indig, Venerable Youwang Shih, and Rabbi Rachel Timoner.
Mayor Adams, was introduced by the Moderator, he came out to Frank Sinatra’s Classic Song New York, New York. He had two pictures clutched in his hands one of his mother and another one of the First Black Mayor of New York City, Mayor David Dinkins. He placed his mother’s picture on the right side of the podium, and mayors Dinkins on the left side, as he was on the podium in the center.
The Mayor started off ,with I feel sorry for people that live in a small town and don’t live in New York. Just a good feeling, where we are, my fellow New Yorkers. We are here together at last. For two years, we have lived in an alternate version of our city, separated from friends, families, and colleagues, worried about going to school, to work, about staying healthy and our fear was justified.
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