The Three Kings came and went , but not before passing through New York City to celebrate with hundreds of children that came out for the parade organized by the Museo del Barrio on January 4 , an atypically sunny Friday for the month . This Christmas celebration , whose historic and religious background is quite complex ( much like Christianity itself ) , has been a part of the Caribbean and Latin American cultural traditions for numerous centuries . In Puerto Rico , for example , on the eve of the Three Kings ' visit , children leave grass in a shoebox for the horses of Melchor , Gaspar , and Baltasar , thanking them for the gifts they will receive the next day .
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