Malliotakis to march in Sunset Park Puerto Rican Day Parade
Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis, who made headlines with her decision to boycott the 60th National Puerto Rican Day Parade because sponsors are honoring political extremist Oscar Lopez Rivera, said she has no such qualms about joining marchers for a Sunset Park version of the parade.
Her campaign announced that Malliotakis plans to march in the Third Annual Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade on June 11. The Sunset Park event will take place the same day as the parade in Manhattan.
Oscar Lopez Rivera spent more than 35 years in prison for his role as leader of FALN, an organization that carried out hundreds of bombings in the name of winning independence for Puerto Rico. In one of those incidents, a bombing at historic Fraunces Tavern in the Financial District in 1975, four people were killed.