Coney Island will dive under the sea Saturday afternoon, when thousands of decked-out revelers show off their fin-ery at the 42nd annual Mermaid Parade. “It truly is not just the greatest day in ...

"If this proposed casino gets approved, it may very well be the death of our Mermaid Parade,” said Adam Rinn, the artistic director at Coney Island USA. "When we are looking to apply for street ...

If the Mermaid Parade is one of those ways, then certainly we'd be in support of that," he said. He argues that it would be an opportunity to invest in the neighborhood and to use funding to ...