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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.

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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 beach at Coney Island
The largest ashtray in the world



A young boy has a nice day
Years later, Karl Leveille would remember this as the best day of his life



A strange type of protective device
Octopussy’s brother



Man with open shirt, unattractive
Stud goes un-laid



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



Woman makes adjustments
Deciding not to wear a bra later regretted



Jerk
Total asswipe blocks photo



A friendly conversation between strangers
Request for intercourse denied for ninth time



Blue-haired woman
Radical weight-loss program and liposuction does Dame Edna wonders



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



Evil has a new face
Man actually did sign contract with the devil



Everybody dance!
Who says New Yorkers aren’t political?



Sad refuse
Danny Heeter ruins stranger’s day



Band rocks out
Sonic Youth doppelganger refuse to quit



Masked man
Stephan Sheroan answers announcer’s final call to ‘rock it!’

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of The Morning News. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out from Riverhead Books in Summer 2010. He most recently wrote the Letters from Paris column for TMN. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. His personal site has more information. You can also catch him on Twitter.

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