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Audio Postcard: Coney Island's Mermaid Parade

NPR
Published July 5, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

The annual Mermaid Parade on Coney Island took place last month. Some 250,000 spectators came for the "nation's largest art parade," which boasted musician Moby as its King Neptune. NPR's Melissa Jaeger-Miller sends an audio postcard from the parade.

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