Greek Independence Day Parade, New York City 2011

Cause There Is Nothing like Overseas Nationalism

On 5th Avenue, Manhattan, NYC, last Saturday the temperature was 7 degrees.

The New York Police Department band is playing Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' to warm up. Coincidence?



Inspired by the 2006 film '300', The Greek Warriors are ready and waiting for the parade to begin. Apparently they are always in full character, and speak to each other in ancient Greek so that others don't understand them.



The GreekWarriors can be booked for special events.

Find more about them on www.TheGreekWarriors.com



Greek Americans politicians were also present, like Senator Gianaris



And Miss Greek Independence 2011,
the winner of the annual Miss Greek Independence Pageant



And Armenians partaking in the Greek Independence celebrations. There's nothing that unites more than common enemies.



And finally, freshly imported from Greece...



It is the Irish, the Puerto Ricans and the Greeks who have an annual parade on New York's 5th Avenue. Greeks are the smallest parade attendance-wise, for obvious reasons.


Other than the Different, and slightly comical, which I have selectively portrayed here, the parade was primarily a very moving occasion for the Greek community, as everyone who has immigrant family abroad surely knows.

Love,

Ζάνα