Throngs line Fifth Avenue for Puerto Rican parade -NYC From: newsday.com
Tagged: New York City, police, Puerto Rican, puerto rican day parade, puerto rican paradePosted on: June 9th, 2008
Fifth Avenue was a sea of red, white and blue flags Sunday as hundreds of thousand of Puerto Ricans celebrated their ethnic pride.
“I was born and raised in New York,” said Rita Rivera, who watched the Puerto Rican Day Parade from behind police barricades. “This is the closest we get to so many Puerto Ricans together in one spot.”
Mayor Michael Bloomberg marched with labor leader Dennis Rivera, head of the Service Employees International Union and the parade’s grand marshal. “*
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