What better time is there to wear a crazy, scary, or slutty costume, assume a different persona, and walk around in public and not be though of as weird? That’s the wonder of Halloween!Every year on Halloween night New Yorkers and visitors from all over the world dress up in their wackiest, sexiest, or most creative costumes and parade up 6th avenue from Greenwich Village up to 23rd street. The following excerpt is taken from Wikipedia:
New York’s Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade and street pageant presented the night of every Halloween (October 31) in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Stretching more than a mile, this cultural event draws two million spectators, fifty thousand costumed participants, dancers, artists and circus performers, dozens of floats bearing live bands and other musical and performing acts, and a world-wide television audience of one hundred million.
Among the parade’s signature features are its pageant sized puppets — giant rod puppets “articulated” by teams of puppeteers — and its open participation to anyone in a costume who wishes to march. It is the largest public Halloween event in the United States, and the country’s only major night parade. It has been called “New York’s Carnival.”
The weather this year was mild and the spectators, dressed in costumes themselves, were participants in the spectacle. It’s an amazing event with young and old enjoying the festivities into the night. Puppets, marching bands, performers on floats, and anyone with a costume or mask. Come one, come all, join in and reveal in one hell of a good time.
Enjoy,
NycSummer
Popularity: 6% [?]
