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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]
Crowds at Bowling Green Station to witness the ticker-tape parade for the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, February 2008. 2000 October 30 – New York Yankees championship in the World Series. 2008 February 5 – New York Giants championship in Super Bowl XLII. 2009 November 6 – New York Yankees championship in the World Series.
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 ...
The parade routinely attracts huge crowds, who line the almost 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) route that runs from Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Museum. ... NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s West Indian ...
Exuberant crowds carrying rainbow colors filled New York City streets Sunday for one of the largest pride parades in the history of the gay-rights movement.
San Fernando: Giant Lantern Parade. Part of the annual Giant Lantern Festival. ... Wide World of Christmas Parade; New York City: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade;
The São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in Brazil is South America's largest event, and was listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest Pride parade in 2006 with 2.5 million people. [10] It broke the Guinness record in 2009 with four million attendees, [11] with similar numbers to at least 2016, [12] and up to five million attending in 2017.
The first individual to be honored with a ticker-tape parade was Admiral George Dewey, hero of the battle of Manila Bay, in 1899, when two million people came out to New York City. [6] Following World War II, several ticker-tape parades were given in honor of victorious generals and admirals, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral ...