Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK – Coney Island is always a spectacle. And then there's the Mermaid Parade every June, a day when self-described Coney ...

Paradegoers dressed in all types of aquatic-themed costumes march and perform in the 42nd Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade in Brooklyn, New York on June 22, 2024. Paradegoers dressed in all types of ...

Who doesn’t want to be part of that world? Coney Island will dive under the sea Saturday afternoon, when thousands of decked-out revelers show off their fin-ery at the 42nd annual Mermaid Parade. “It ...

Ten-year-old Annalee Welch of the Bronx –– dressed in a scaled top and arm cuffs and bedazzled with colorful rhinestones –– danced to the drumming of Batalá New York, an all-women, Black-led ...

Coney Island USA will hold its 42nd Annual Mermaid Parade on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Painter Joe Coleman and his wife and muse, the photographer Whitney Ward, will serve as King Neptune and Queen ...

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade made quite a splash once again. The 43rd annual event — the nation’s largest art parade — welcomed revelers close from the Big Apple to around the world, many donning ...

The annual parade was founded in Brooklyn's Coney Island in 1983. Adam Gray / Getty Images More than 200,000 attendees donned glittery scales, intricate crowns and avant-garde tentacles on Saturday at ...

The 41st Coney Island Mermaid Parade was another seaside hit, full of floats, aquatic costumes, and jubilant particpants and onlookers. (all photos Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise) ...