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Brigitte
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Parade-goers waving Puerto Rican flags in front of Bergdorf Goodman on 5th Avenue in NYC.


2024
 

In celebration of the 67th Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, I documented the festival festivities and street style on 5th Avenue and Toñita Carribbean Social Club –– the last standing Latin social club in New York City.


Two people waving Puerto Rican flags and one wears a shirt that reads "Boricua" with a graphic of bomba drums and El Morro, with a large graphic of the flag in the background Three young parade-goers wearing Puerto Rican clothing. (Left) One wears a white tank with a Puerto Rican flag tied around his neck and white sunglasses. (Middle) One wears a Puerto Rican bandana on their head and dons a baseball jersey that reads "Puerto Rico" unbuttoned with a white tank underneath. (Right) One wears a "PR" red baseball cap with a red, white, and blue striped tank that reads "Puerto Rico" while holding a waterbottle. Three young parade-goers posing with peace signs wearing Puerto Rico's national colors: red, blue, and white Crowded party inside Tonita's with string lights and disco ball Brigitte holding a Puerto Rican inside the subway with a red Daddy Yankee T-shirt and tinted red sunglasses on her head. Group of teenagers standing in front of a halal cart with Puerto Rican flags; one person dons a Puerto Rican flag bucket hat. A crowd waving Puerto Rican flags wearing flag-inspired fashion A person standing in front of a pool table with a pool stick with a T-shirt that reads "Boricua" in blue font with graphics depicting the Taino coqui frog and bomba drums with a Puerto Rican color Two teenagers sitting in the subway. (Left) One is smiling wearing a white tank top and Scooby Doo shorts with a paint splattered texture using the national colors. (Right) One is texting with a Puerto Rican flag wrapped on head like a bandana with a white bikini top and dark shorts. A vendor holding a noise maker and an umbrella featuring red, white, and blue patterning and Puerto Rican flag graphics.