WEST INDIAN PARTY! Mayoral candidates join Brooklyn’s giant parade
The city’s West Indian Day Parade rolled through the streets on Monday with politics in the air and a child’s death on marchers’ minds.
Big crowds gathered along one of Brooklyn’s busiest streets to watch the annual parade, the largest in the city. The festivities were raucous, highlighted by sweat-soaked elected officials furiously pressing the flesh with crowds just a little more than a week before Primary Day.
But the celebrations were somewhat tempered by the shooting death of a 1-year-old boy in his stroller blocks from the parade’s start. The boy, Antiq Hennis, was struck in the head Sunday night by a bullet meant for his father, said police Commissioner Ray Kelly.