{"id":272255,"date":"2026-06-19T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272255\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:10:56","slug":"coney-island-mermaid-parade-returns-after-financial-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272255\/","title":{"rendered":"Coney Island Mermaid Parade returns after financial setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 44th annual Mermaid Parade will make a splash in Coney Island this weekend. Glitter, fishnets and other creative costumes will hit the boardwalk Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A financial setback had actually threatened the festivities earlier this year. Organizers thought they may have had to cancel the parade. However, a financial boost came in to save the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Rinn, artistic director of Coney Island USA, which hosts the parade, joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Friday to talk about this year&#8217;s festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 44th annual Mermaid Parade will make a splash in Coney Island this weekend. Glitter, fishnets and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25,471,9,24,12,2370,63,134,136,135,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-272255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-top-stories","tag-dean-meminger","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272255","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=272255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}