For years, the J’ouvert and West Indian Day Parade celebrations on Labor Day weekend in Brooklyn had been marred by gun violence — but as Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday, “it did not happen” in 2022.
Hizzoner joined the NYPD and representatives of a litany of city agencies Tuesday to laud a relatively peaceful weekend that saw no homicides related to the two celebrations — and the third-safest Labor Day weekend since the NYPD began tracking crime through CompStat, according to Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell.