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Dominican Carneval Is Alive Year-Round in East Williamsburg with a Great Happy Hour

Celebrations every weekend!

Dominican Carneval Is Alive Year-Round in East Williamsburg with a Great Happy Hour

Dominican Carneval Is Alive Year-Round in East Williamsburg with a Great Happy Hour

Celebrations every weekend!

Dominican Carneval Is Alive Year-Round in East Williamsburg with a Great Happy Hour

In the Dominican Republic, the people celebrate carnival in February, but at Carneval, the newest bar and restaurant in East Williamsburg, they celebrate every weekend. Guests enjoy salsa and taki taki late into the evenings, met with a surprise carnival troop bursting into the dinning room donning the famous masks, dancing through the crowd in high carnival spirit and sparkling, rainbow-colored suits. 

“It gets bananas,” James Frazo told Bushwick Daily, the bartender for the evening. He pointed to the carnival masks hanging in the space which…

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