Paradegoers were in for a quill
Shake a tail t feather! Some million revelers — including this feather-covered stunner — thronged Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn on Monday at the annual West Indian Day Parade celebrating Caribbean culture.
Partiers of all ages festooned in bright tropical hues busted a move to thumping soca, calypso and reggae beats as the aroma of jerk chicken filled the air.
“When I see all the colors . . . it makes me happy, and I want to go out there and dance too,” said 8year-old Lyric Romain of Elizabeth, NJ.
The soon-to-be thirdgrader was decked out in a red, green and yellow tutu, the same colors as the flag of her mom’s native Grenada.
Another attendee, 63 years old but no less young at heart, danced nonstop. “It’s my culture. No matter how long I live here, it will always be in my blood,” she said.
“I like the floats, the bands, the colors, the music,” the woman, a Guyanese native by way of Amityville, LI, added. “But I don’t like the rowdiness. When they start misbehaving, then it’s time for me to go home.”
The only reports of serious violence were a man who walked into Kings County Hospital at around 3:30 p.m. claiming he’d been shot in the hand at the parade, and another man shot in the leg in a fight at Nostrand Avenue and Hawthorne Street after the event ended.