Village Halloween Parade: worth going or not? (Lee: neighborhood, live in) - New York City - New York (NY) - City-Data Forum

celticvisa · 10-28-2011, 08:03 PM

I have gone the past couple of years. 2 years ago it rained and I had a miserable experience. Last year wasn't that bad but the crowds were terrible.

I think the same stuff kind of happens every year. You have the Michael Jackson thriller group, the big skeletons, the hairy guys dressed as women etc.

StaggerLee22 · 10-28-2011, 08:32 PM

The crowds were terrible?
huh?
The crowd IS the parade.

cottMAN98405cc · 10-28-2011, 09:38 PM

I used to go these parades as well and it seems these parades have loss their fun factor ..Im not going to this parade

nyc227 · 10-29-2011, 06:36 AM

having walked down the parade once it is somewhat fun.

celticvisa · 10-29-2011, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StaggerLee22

The crowds were terrible?
huh?
The crowd IS the parade.

actually there is a crowd that watches and a crowd that parades...the crowd that watches is often huge. that crowd that parades is often predictable.

DTL3000 · 10-29-2011, 01:31 PM

It's one of those things you have to experience at least once but I doubt you'd be missing much if you skipped out after that. I went in 2008 and it was heavily political with the presidential election right around the corner. Of course everyone in the parade was pro-Obama. I saw one anti-Bush group that was carrying poles with executed dolls hanging off of them(implying that Bush is a baby killer apparently). Talk about tasteless and a buzzkill. I also saw way too many Jokers since that was soon after the last Batman movie came out.

Mr. Klato · 10-29-2011, 01:56 PM

I went once to see all the costumes. It's fun if you're young or into the whole halloween crap.

loratliff · 10-30-2011, 02:24 PM

Terrible for those who live in the neighborhood. I have to carry around an electric bill just to prove I live on my street.

Kefir King · 10-30-2011, 04:47 PM

Back awhile ago when the parade was resticted to the West Village and down Christopher Street it was terrific...really Villagey. But then they moved it East to a large avenue and the crowds got huge and the parade got touristy.

It's not worth my time anymore with 100 paraders across a wide street and the viewers 20 deep on the sidewalk: all the intimacy is lost.

Disneyfied.

What is the route these days?

StaggerLee22 · 11-01-2011, 06:19 AM

So did you go?