Overview
- The New York Carnival Parade will run along Eastern Parkway and is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Monday, with J'ouvert events and early-morning screenings starting before dawn.
- Officials have mounted one of the NYPD's largest deployments of the year with thousands of officers, drones, barricades, and specialized units positioned along the route.
- Designated entry points will use magnetometers and security screenings that officials said could start as early as 2 a.m. for J'ouvert to control who enters parade viewing areas.
- City leaders moved the parade's official end time to 5:30 p.m. and announced a 'zero tolerance' posture intended to reduce late-day violence and deter retaliatory incidents.
- The measures will cause major street closures and transit disruptions in Crown Heights and are a response to violence in prior years that reports variously described as five or six people shot and multiple slashings.