The New York Times Take On The Labor Day Parade

…At Crown Bagel, on Crown Heights’s central spine of Kingston Street, Hasidic Jews ate bagels with lox, bagels with guacamole and bagels with egg salad as music pulsed in the distance. They had not been to the parade, nor were they interested. “It’s not my style,” said Jacob Batz, the manager. “It’s loud.”

But others embraced the Caribbean vibrancy. A group of four rabbinical students donned do-rags with the colors of the Jamaican flag and stood outside the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway enjoying the music. “A lot of women, a lot of music, a lot of everything,” said David Lieder, 20, who was with Joel Lerner, 19, Avi Lapidus, 18, and Joseph Gelovitz, 20….