Thousands of New Yorkers celebrated Dominican culture and music in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday as the 35th annual Dominican Day Parade took over Avenue of the Americas.

The crowd, which stretched from 36th to 52nd Street, waved the red, white and blue flag of the Dominican Republic and danced to the sounds of merengue, bachata and hip-hop pumping from enormous speakers that had been hoisted onto floats.

The truck for Goya Gives, the charitable arm of Goya Foods, literally bounced as a live band jammed and the master of ceremonies shouted, “Who’s proud to be Dominican?”

The parade also honored a police officer, Miosotis Familia, who was killed on July 5 in the Bronx when a man fired into the window of an RV-style police command post. Officer Familia was a 48-year-old mother of three who had spent much of her 12-year career in the Bronx.