The Labor Day Parade or West Indian Carnival is an annual celebration held on American Labor Day (the first Monday in September) in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.

The Parade attracts between one and three million participants.
Jessie Waddell and some of her West Indian friends started the Carnival in Harlem in the 1930s by staging costume parties in large, enclosed places like the Savoy, Renaissance and Audubon Ballrooms due to the cold wintry weather of February. However the indoor confinement did not work well. he earliest known Carnival street parade was held on September 1, 1947 and it was along Seventh Avenue, starting at 110th St. The first Carnival Queen was Dorothy Godfrey.
The permit for the Harlem parade was revoked in 1964. Five years later, a committee headed by Carlos Lezama, which eventually became the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, obtained approval for the parade to be established on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, where it remains today.