PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) — Like the sound of heaven on a beach far away, the steel pan was the star of the show in Prospect Heights on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It was a special night or Anselma Joseph, originally from Trinidad, and her son.<\/p>\n
“I’m so excited, because I’ve never been to Panorama in Brooklyn. This is my first time, so I’m overjoyed. I’m excited to hear the pan,” said Joseph.<\/p>\n
“I love my mom to death, so it’s pretty amazing to have her here with me,” added Phil Sayers.<\/p>\n
Talented fingertips, with each touch, make a magical sound of Caribbean tradition, with a home right in Brooklyn. Each and every Labor Day Weekend, steelbands compete for bragging rights.<\/p>\n
It is Ajani Hector’s second time playing in Panorama.<\/p>\n
“It brings people together — even if you have a difference, you know. Doesn’t even matter skin color. It’s like anybody can play and they can have fun,” said Ajani Hector.<\/p>\n
It is just the beginning of a long, festive weekend in Brooklyn — and just as every performer is laser-focused on the steelpan, the city is laser focused on safety for the masses who will attend Monday’s parade.<\/p>\n
“When you have 700,000 people, sometimes up to a million people that are there on the parkway, and then the neighboring community, you must come up with real strategies,” said Mayor Eric Adams.<\/p>\n
Adams sat down with Eyewitness News to discuss how the city is making some strategic changes in securing Eastern Parkway so that crime does not overshadow tradition come Monday’s Carnival.<\/p>\n
WABC-TV Channel 7 is a proud sponsor of the New York Carnival Parade, and will stream the event live on abc7NY.com<\/a>, our mobile and connected TV apps, and on YouTube starting at noon on Monday (Labor Day).<\/strong><\/p>\n “Police personnel is going to be there. A layer of barriers that would be in between the public, because we saw in the past people would jump across the barriers. You’re going to see the largest deployment of personnel throughout the entire year,” Adams said.<\/p>\n Last year, a man was killed and four others were injured when a gunman jumped a parade barricade to open fire on a group of people — once again marring an otherwise joyous event.<\/p>\n However, with so much joy to go around, nothing can drown out the sound, the passion and the love of the Caribbean diaspora.<\/p>\n Annette Peters says she loves being a Trinidadian in Brooklyn and seeing all of the culture.<\/p>\n “Oh it’s so lovely. It’s so great — we all get together, you see people you haven’t seen in a long time. It’s lovely, it’s lovely,” Peters adds.<\/p>\n ———- Submit a tip or story idea to Eyewitness News<\/p>\n
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