The Puppets of the New York Village Halloween Parade October 13th, 2009

The organizers of the Village Parade on Halloween remain committed and dedicated to the imaginative and the cultural life of the city of Manhattan. True to the nature of large scale public events that take place in the neighborhoods and the boroughs on the island, they believe whole heatedly that when communities come together to participate in these events, they become inspired by the artistic movements and that this is a major role inf the rejuvenation and the resurrections of the spirit, the life of the people within those communities and the economies of the areas as well.

When a city becomes filled with hope, the businesses boom, new five star New York hotels and restaurants are built, and the communities begin to thrive once again. This has been the effect of the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village. It was after all started by just one man in 1977, who simply wanted to cheer up and to entertain friends in his neighborhood and has now grown into one of the largest Halloween events in the entire city. Imaginations are put to work, and people come out together to celebrate and to perform with a vast array of puppet characters. The people are out on the streets to have fun, and it fills the entire day and night of October 31st with spontaneity and a sense of well being and freedom.

The parade is filled with people in costumes and with the large scale puppets. The puppeteers spend months leading up to the parade on the creation and the construction of these giant puppets, in places as far away as Boston, Cleveland and New Jersey, and when all is said and done, more than fifty thousand people are part of the Parade itself. This doesn’t include those that come down to the Village just to watch the Parade and to celebrate on the sidelines. This is truly another one of those magical times that the city offers up, to the residents of New York, and to all those lucky enough to be visiting there at the end of the month.

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