New York Mayor Bill de Blasio waves to onlookers as the parade moves along.
The annual West Indian Day parade is marching through Brooklyn, New York on Monday.
More than a million people have lined the streets for the Labor Day tradition.
It is a day of celebrating Caribbean culture, with the music and food, and all things West Indian being served up along the Eastern Parkway promenade.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and a slew of other state and city officials are among the marchers in Brooklyn.
Onlookers have crowded along the parade route, carrying the flags of the different Caribbean nations.
The route goes through a major Brooklyn roadway, in neighborhoods that have a strong Caribbean presence.
Despite an expanded police presence, pre-dawn activities for the event were marred by violence with two people shot to death.
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