Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2005

If you missed the Coney Island Mermaid Parade this year, don’t miss Forgotten NY’s extensve photo coverage of the event. “The annual event,” Kevin writes, “run by Dick Zigun’s Coney Island USA, is technically a remembrance of the old Coney Island Mardi Gras parade (which ran between 1903 and 1954) but it’s really one of Brooklyn’s last spontaneous events, a street party attracting between 50 and as many as 100,000 screaming spectators. It is just about the only thing with that kind of a crowd that can attract your webmaster.”
Mermaid Parade [Forgotten NY]