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NAME: US PUERTO 140604N TAPE: EF04/0617 IN_TIME: 10:06:09:21 DURATION: 00:01:08:20 SOURCES: ABC DATELINE: New York, 13 June 2004 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Internet SHOTLIST: ABC News One 1 Various shots of Puerto Rican day parade 2 Crowd 3 SOUNDBITE:(English) Voxpop: I love the Puerto Rican parade, because we love Puerto Rico, one hundred percent Puerto Rican 4 Various of parade 5 SOUNDBITE:(English) Voxpop: I've been here since six o'clock this morning, and it means the world to me to be here, to celebrate my heritage 6 SOUNDBITE:(English) Michael Bloomberg, New York City mayor: I think today by mayoral order everybody's a little bit Puerto Rican and you'll see lots of people having a good time 7 Bloomberg joins crowd at parade STORYLINE: Tens of thousands of people lined Fifth Avenue in New York City in a sea of red, white and blue on Sunday to celebrate all things Puerto Rican in one of the city's biggest parades On a day when New York mayor Michael Bloomberg declared everyone Puerto Rican by mayoral order, thousands thronged the streets, trying to catch a glimpse of passing celebrities and dancing to the heavily amplified floats blasting both salsa and meringue music Puerto Rican pride was on wide display as parade-goers waved the island's flag, wore shirts emblazoned in its colours, and blew whistles as the parade rolled by I love the Puerto Rican parade, because we love Puerto Rico, one hundred percent Puerto Rican, said one parade-goer I've been here since six o'clock this morning, and it means the world to me to be here, to celebrate my heritage, said another The parade, which has been an annual event in New York since 1958, has grown to be one of the city's largest Although it was impossible to estimate this year's crowd, hundreds of thousand have attended in recent years New York City has nearly 800-thousand Puerto Ricans