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Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2012

31 images Created 23 Jun 2012

Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade
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  • A woman smiles as a friend gets the finishing touches of body paint applied prior to the start of the parade.
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  • A man in a multicolored Neptune costume and a women in a dress made of balloons.
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  • A woman carries a "Happy 30th Anniversary: sign while a man on stilts in an Uncle Sam costume looks on.
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  • A sea demon and a mermaid.
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  • Parade participants waiting to register for the parade.
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  • A man with an Occupy Wall Street sign argues with police, who asked him to join the Occupy Wall Street contingent in the parade.
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  • An inflatable sea monster.
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  • A man in a burgundy corset, a violet shawl, and matching makeup. While the theme of the parade is mermaids, the theme was interpreted loosely, and often ignored.
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  • The official banner of the parade is carried down the parade route.
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  • A woman costumed as a birthday gift, with "Happy Birthday" glasses and borthday bow pasties.
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  • A young woman festooned with sparkly beads.
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  • A woman in green body paint, octopus tentacles on her fingers, and with fishnets, starfish, and other sea creatures attached to her.
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  • Neptune and his trident ride down the parade route.
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  • A woman in a bright orange shrimp costume, carying a large goblet of shrimp cocktail.
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  • A mermaid family.
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  • A participant in a half male, half female costume.
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  • A man with mask made of crabs, wearing a crab codpiece (or should that be crabpiece?).
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  • A bystander in a gorilla mask, with purple hair, with a sign asking "Have U seen my girlfriend? with a drawing of a mermaid.
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  • A mermaid rides a float through the parade.
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  • A family giving homage to the late children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak, in sea creature costumes, and with a sign on their baby buggy "Where the wild fish are."
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  • A mermaid in a red scaly costume rides a float through the parade.
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  • Two men in summer dresses wallk in the parade.
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  • A bearded man wearing biblical-looking robes wears a sign saying "Repent sinners the end is near." Behind him is a banner reading "Mermageddon."
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  • A woman from Brown Girls Burlesque in the parade.
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