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Audio Postcard: Coney Island's Mermaid Parade

NPR

Published July 4, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

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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.