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The Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade held on the night of Halloween, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. The parade, initiated on October 31, 1974, by Greenwich Village puppeteer and mask maker Ralph Lee, is the world's largest Halloween parade and the only major nighttime parade in the United States. [1]
From 1797 [35] until 1829, [36] the bucolic village of Greenwich was the location of New York State's first penitentiary, Newgate Prison, on the Hudson River at what is now West 10th Street, [35] near the Christopher Street pier. [37] The building was designed by Joseph-François Mangin, who would later co-design New York City Hall. [38]
The 49th annual Village Halloween Parade returned to New York City on Monday evening, October 31, bringing music, dance and a mix of spooky and colorful costumes to crowds lining Sixth Avenue.The ...
From this beginning, Sixth Avenue traverses SoHo and Greenwich Village, roughly divides Chelsea from the Flatiron District and NoMad, passes through the Garment District and skirts the edge of the Theater District while passing through Midtown Manhattan. Although it is officially named "Avenue of the Americas", this name is seldom used by New ...
New York City's annual Village Halloween Parade is officially coming back after a pandemic hiatus, thanks to Brooklyn-born finance industry vice president Jason Feldman.
Thanks to a generous donation, New York City's 2021 Village Halloween Parade is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 31.
The annual Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, is the world's largest Halloween parade, and has its roots in New York's queer community. [ 53 ] The Manhattan neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Harlem were home to a sizable homosexual population after World War I , when men and women who had served in the military took ...
Luna Moths, from Alex Kahn's Metamorphosis, from the 1998 NY Village Halloween Parade. In 1998, Kahn and his partner, Sophia Michahelles, brought together an ensemble of artists, puppeteers, theatrical technicians, and performers to design the annual performances that lead New York's Village Halloween Parade.