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Barnacle Parade marks seventh Sandy anniversary

The seventh annual Barnacle Parade took over the streets of Red Hook on the evening of October 29. This year, the homemade neighborhood extravaganza took on the theme “Hook-Lantis, ”reimagining Red Hook as a fully underwater city, where public submarines–with humans and sea creatures alike as co-passengers–stand in for MTA buses.

As usual, the event drew a wide range of costumed participants and local children, who followed a band and a massive man-powered float from the corner of Pioneer and Van Brunt to the waterfront and back, memorializing one of Red Hook’s darkest days with joy and humor. A block party followed.

 

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