SUNSET PARK — ¡Viva Puerto Rico!

Sunset Park’s ninth annual Puerto Rican Parade and Festival will be held on June 8.

The march will begin on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street and will include floats, vintage cars and motorcycles.

The music festival will start at 6:30 p.m. near the entrance to Sunset Park on Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street.

A past Puerto Rican Parade and Festival in Sunset Park. Eagle Urban Media File photo

Once again, community group El Grito will host the event.

“Since 2015, the Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade and Festival have turned Brooklyn’s 5th Avenue into a river of rhythm and color — a living pulse of Bomba y Plena echoing down the streets like an ancestral heartbeat,” wrote the parade committee. “Born of a proud activist soul, the celebration honors the resilience

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