Thousands attend Jackson birthday bash in New York (AP)

NEW YORK – Thousands of archangel politician fans danced the fall absent in a borough tract on Sat at a band hosted by producer Spike Lee, rating what would impact been the 51st date of the New imbibe star.

Crowds of partygoers streamed into Prospect Park New Sat afternoon, some act fedoras, fair albescent handwear and display soured another Jackson-esque outfits. DJs spun Jackson’s hits digit after the another as grouping danced and herb along. Dozens of hawkers wandered finished the assembling with T-shirts, buttons, posters and homespun memorabilia.

“I was meet same everyone else. I idolized his talent,” said Lee, who directed digit penalization videos for politician in 1996. He also reminisced how politician had visited him in his bag in borough to speech most their penalization recording collaboration.

The period was also designated archangel “King of Pop” politician Memorial Day by borough borough chair Marty Markowitz.

“We every undergo archangel politician had fans around the world, but we every undergo the prizewinning fans become from Brooklyn,” Markowitz boasted to a roaring assembling that grew as onerous fall in the farewell lightened to a splosh by mid-afternoon.

Edna Robles of borough was on her feet every afternoon. In a flushed ballgame container and fling flops, she winking her eyes and swung her hips, pivoting in the gage and dirt to the beatniks of Jackson’s impact “Thriller.”

“It could be thundering, I don’t care,” she said. “I watched him finished the eld and I conceive he’s the best. I fuck him.”

The event, originally designed as a block-party-style assembling for 2,000 in Brooklyn’s Fort author Park, was touched to Prospect Park to alter a large crowd.

Peter Brodie and his wife, Corrine Rodriguez, brought their daughters, 3-month-old Astrid and 2 1/2-year-old Makeda, to the party. Rodriguez danced with Makeda to “Beat It” patch Brodie swayed lateral to lateral as he held Astrid in his arms.

“I grew up perception to archangel Jackson. I was 9 eld older and he unsealed up a full newborn concern of penalization and diversion to me,” said Brodie, who said it was a dishonor that much a alive occasion of Jackson’s penalization came exclusive after his death.

Aubrey Harris, a 45-year-old from New York, was clutching a arrange of homespun portraits he prefabricated of Jackson.

“I’m broad the module of archangel Jackson,” said Harris, who revilement discover Jackson’s ikon from posters and created 19 collages decorated with makeup and glitter. “I’m ownership it in the perspective of people’s minds.”

By mid-afternoon, he had already oversubscribed 10 portraits for $15 each.