A Brooklyn tradition could be in jeopardy. Organizers of the annual Mermaid Parade say there\u2019s a chance the event does not return this year \u2013 but they\u2019re hoping that an online fundraiser helps them continue to flip their fins. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe will hopefully have the parade,\u201d said Adam Rinn, artistic director of Coney Island USA, which organizes the parade. <\/p>\n
Rinn told News 12 on Wednesday that they \u201cnever really bounced back\u201d from the COVID-19 pandemic. So, while they hope to hold the 44th annual free event, they\u2019re not there financially just yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you run a not-for-profit arts organization in, basically, a seasonal neighborhood, it becomes tight,\u201d said Rinn. \u201cIt\u2019s a hard game of catch-up.\u201d <\/p>\n
The online fundraising campaign has exceeded $37,000 as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Rinn said that helps, but they still have a long way to go. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat [$37,000] wouldn\u2019t even cover half of the cost,\u201d said Rinn. <\/p>\n
He added that they\u2019re working on getting sponsors, so mer-folk and sea creatures can continue to bring their colorful, homemade costumes. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re going to get to the point where we\u2019re going to have the best celebration in Brooklyn,\u201d said Rinn. <\/p>\n
A tentative date for this year\u2019s Mermaid Parade is set for June 20 on Coney Island. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn tradition could be in jeopardy. Organizers of the annual Mermaid Parade say there\u2019s a chance the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,119,9,24,63,1365,273,73673],"class_list":{"0":"post-182850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-coney-island","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-parade","16":"tag-parades","17":"tag-the-little-mermaid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}