Workers at a Manhattan Parade. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A group of orange-clad workers along the route of New York’s 2022 “Columbus Day” parade.
The crowd at this “Columbus Day” parade in Manhattan included just about every sort of person you can imagine – every walk of life, every ethnicity, every social class that you might encounter in Manhattan. Since this parade, also referred to as the “Italian Heritage” parade is a focal point for the Italian community, some in the crowd reminded me of people I’ve seem in Italy. (Here I’m thinking particularly of one fellow wearing some sort of ceremonial sash and hat — perhaps there will be a picture later.) Many were just there for the parade. Others, like me, were from out of town and happened to run into the event on a holiday morning.
This quartet fits somewhere into that wildly diverse crowd. They are what we might have called “hard hats,” with all that implied, in an earlier political era — except that now they comprise a more culturally diverse group. They were engaged in animated conversation when I passed and grabbed a photograph, attracted by the personalities and by the colorful attire.
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