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The 32nd annual Mermaid Parade took place on Saturday. Like in previous years, Coney Island was flooded with festive and scantily clad people dressed as mermaids, sea creatures and other things, including Dante and Chiara de Blasio, who were given the distinction of King Neptune and Queen Mermaid. Not to be outdone by their kids, Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
Over the past 30 years, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has become the country’s largest art parade. With its shimmering, extravagant floats, fabulously zany performers, and pastie-plastered nips as far as the eye can see, there’s really nothing like it. But after Sandy destroyed the freakshow, museum, and performance space whose revenue provides funding, this […]
