{"id":211410,"date":"2026-04-27T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:20:09","slug":"mermaid-parade-sets-return-date-after-previous-uncertainty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211410\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Parade sets return date after previous uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, which had faced an uncertain future due to funding issues, is set to return on Saturday, June 20, organizers said Monday.<\/p>\n

Crowdfunded donations and money from the Brooklyn borough president\u2019s office helped keep this year\u2019s event afloat, according to Adam Rinn, the artistic director of Coney Island USA, the nonprofit that produces the parade.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade is set to return on Saturday, June 20, organizers said Monday
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In March, organizers said the event was\u00a0facing an “urgent financial crisis,”\u00a0adding that it might “disappear” without monetary support
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Organizers said crowdfunded donations and money from the Brooklyn borough president\u2019s office helped keep this year\u2019s event afloat<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point we can really focus on staging the most colorfully spectacular parade and the incredible royalty that will lead us into the summer season,\u201d Rinn said.<\/p>\n

The Mermaid Parade is one of the country\u2019s largest art parades, dating back to 1983, when it was created to pay tribute to Coney Island\u2019s historic Mardi Gras celebrations.<\/p>\n

In March, Coney Island USA said the event was facing an “urgent financial crisis,”<\/a>\u00a0adding that it might “disappear” without monetary support.<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe page set up to support the parade subsequently raised more than $41,000.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s parade will be led by musicians Jesse Malin and Rickie Lee Jones, Coney Island USA said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, which had faced an uncertain future due to funding issues, is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2296,25,98,231,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,380,27],"class_list":["post-211410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-human-interest","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211410","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=211410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}