5.27.2007

Loisaida Street Festival: Memorial Day Weekend

I've been taking our dog over to Tompkins Square Park these days. Walking down E 6th St on the way there, I grabbed Jon's shoulder, "There's a pony."

pony ride.jpg

He thought I was crazy, but it turns out that I did see a pony.

close up pony.jpg

And it was part of the Loisaida Street Festival. It seemed to be filled with local flavor, very East Village-y, and not at all lot the loads of other festivals in NYC that are run by the same street festival company with the requisite knee-high sock vendors and fried oreos.

heldago.jpg

hispanic food.jpg

girls at festival.jpg

big chair photo.jpg

exchanging info.jpg

ecuador jersey.jpg
Jon gets into the festival mood - love that design.

There are a few more photos in the flickr set.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

i was in the village yesterday but no where close to the festival i think

hey that kid is wearing an Ecuadorean soccer jersey. okay anyway, cool blog.

Shin-pei said...

yeah, in addition to the puerto rican and dr stuff, there was a lot more stuff this year for ecuador, guatemala, costa rica, and other countries. it seems to reflect the shifting latino demographic.

Anonymous said...

different and interesting, keep it up, i'll come back to visit again soon...erik

Nabeel said...

liked the pictures a lot. What a fine summer day .. so many people, so many things, so many colors and cultures :)

Laura Bel said...

Hello, I'm new here, and I really miss NY, I lived there for a year and was amazing!!
Thank you for taking me back to the streets of NY with your comments and photos!!!!