Three men were stabbed and two others slashed in Brooklyn early Monday – just before the notoriously violent West Indian Day parade was set to kick off, according to police.

A 32-year-old man and another 23-year-old victim were stabbed in the neck, while a 36-year-old was stabbed in the face and a 20-year-old slashed in the chin near Carroll Street and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights around 5:48 a.m., right near the parade route, cops said.

EMS responded and rushed the three older people to Kings County Hospital, where the 32-year-old man was initially listed critical condition. By late Monday afternoon, all of the victims, including the 20-year-old, who was taken to KCH by private means, were stable, sources said.

No arrests have been made, cops said.

Then a 25-year-old man was slashed in the face a few minutes later, about 6 a.m., around Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue along the upcoming parade route, cops said. He was taken by private means to Interfaith Medical Center in stable condition.

No arrests have been made in that case, either, police said.

The violence happened near the parade’s pre-dawn J’Ouvert Festival, which began at 6 a.m. and ran until the parade kicked off at 11 a.m.

Police said the parade was shut down at 5:30 p.m. — a decision made after six people were shot during last year’s festivities, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

“Thousands of NYPD cops will be on the parade routes and in the surrounding neighborhoods from Sunday night through Monday. This is one of our department’s largest deployments of the year at this time,” she said Friday.

The annual festivities, which celebrate Caribbean culture, have been marred by violence over the years.

In 2015, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide Carey Gabay was fatally shot in the head during the 2015 festivities after getting caught in gang crossfire.

The following year, two people – a 22-year-old St. John’s University student and a 17-year-old were fatally shot in the chest.

In another horrific incident in 2011, Brooklyn mom Denise Gay, 56, was killed while shielding her family from gunfire as she sat on the stoop of her Crown Heights home.

Sources: NY Post