Tony’s Pizzeria manager Salvatore Polizzi says, this year, the Puerto Rico Day parade is returning. A local street event whose history stretches almost as deep into Bushwick’s past as Tony’s has been around (at this point, well-over fifty years), the event resurfaced back in 2019 as an effort to gin up support for local businesses.

“This year, we are honoring both Wyckoff Hospital and Woodhull Hospital for their efforts in battling [the] COVID-19 pandemic,” Polizzi said about this year’s festivities.

A moment of silence will be observed in their honor on Sunday around 2:45 at Tony’s, where the parade itself will properly kick off at 3, consisting of a mix of marchers, vehicles and motorcycles, according to Polizzi. He adds that the event will also include a DJ booth and “certain headliners but I can’t go into those details at the moment.”