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New York Diary: Photos from the Mermaid Parade
Brooklyn’s annual Mermaid Parade is a festival for freaks, drunks, and bemused Russian locals. Rosecrans Baldwin reports from the boardwalk.
The following photos were taken at the annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, Brooklyn. the Times
account of the parade can be found here.

The largest ashtray in the world

Years later, Karl Leveille would remember this as the best day of his life

Octopussy’s brother

Stud goes un-laid

Unnoticed by local authorities, Aqua-Man enjoys the company of friends

Deciding not to wear a bra later regretted

Total asswipe blocks photo

Request for intercourse denied for ninth time

Radical weight-loss program and liposuction does Dame Edna wonders

Traveling software salesman Ronnie Pyke leaves wife, children, no explanation.

Man actually did sign contract with the devil

Who says New Yorkers aren’t political?

Danny Heeter ruins stranger’s day

Sonic Youth doppelganger refuse to quit

Stephan Sheroan answers announcer’s final call to ‘rock it!’
TMN co-editor
Rosecrans Baldwin lives in Paris, France. He founded
The Morning News with Andrew Womack in 1999 and has been waking up early ever since. His first novel,
You Lost Me There, is coming out soon from Riverhead Books. He currently writes the
Letters from Paris column for TMN. His work has elsewhere appeared in
The New York Times,
New York,
The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. Check out his
personal site or .
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