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New York City’s Village Halloween Parade USA
The Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade held on Halloween night in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Started in 1974 by the puppeteer and mask maker of Greenwich Village, the parade is the world's largest Halloween parade and the only major nighttime parade in the United States. The parade reports 50,000 "costumed participants" and 2 million spectators.
The Village Halloween Parade is called the New York Carnival. The parade is largely a spontaneous event as individual marchers can show up at the starting point in costume without registering or paying anything. One of the prominent features of this parade is its large puppets, which are animated by hundreds of volunteers. The theme of the official parade is applied to the puppets each year. In addition to puppets, more than 50 marching bands participate annually. Additionally, there are some commercial Halloween parade floats.
The official route, on Sixth Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street in Manhattan, is 1.4 miles long (the distance from the concourse on Sixth Avenue from Canal Street to Spring Street adds another 0.2 miles). The parade usually starts at 19:00 and lasts for about two to three hours.
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