Coney Island’s Last Stand?
The Coney Island Mermaid parade last weekend was maybe the best ever–the costumes, the weather, the beach…my friends and I were even in the parade!!!
Here is a news piece I did for WBAI Sunday News about the changes happening to Coney Island and the rumor that this was the last Mermaid Parade:
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade celebrated it’s Silver Anniversary this year with a record crowd of over half a million people attending. But many are saying this will be the last summer of the ‘good ol’ days’ of Coney Island, as developers move forward with a $2 billion dollar plan to drastically remake this historic neighborhood.
Give a listen here:
The Mermaid Parade is organized by Coney Island USA, a tourism groups that organizes some of the better burlesque/sideshow/freakshow events that make Coney Island so great. Hopefully this summer I will get out there more to record and photograph Astroland while it lasts.