The setup area (W 22nd & W 23rd Streets this year), before the parade. You need to pay $20 for a photographer's pass to enter the area (unless you are a marcher).

found another gallery of pics

imgur.com/a/VKVAW#0

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a couple from today's Mermaid Parade in Coney Island

Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2015
 

Did no one go this year?
Here are the skin-iest pictures I found on flickr. Please more additions if you have them ...

Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2015, p2
 

Some more pictures from flickr.
Really, though, no one went to this annual event?

2016!
 

This year's parade is tomorrow! In the meantime, here are some pictures I took at the 2012 one.

That year I barely watched any of the parade, it was mostly just an excuse to get my friends to the beach. When we were walking back down the boardwalk, probably an hour after the parade ended, we stopped to watch this guy playing music. The woman who did his body paint was dancing around at the front. (you can just see her at the right edge of the second picture). I don't think I've ever seen body paint as thick as hers; in some ways a bikini top would have been more revealing, but she was still distracting about half the crowd's attention, and rightfully so.

That all changed when the three girls in these pictures showed up. The small crowd let them right through to the front, where they started dancing, seemingly oblivious to all of us. Immediately all the attention was on them, and lots of cameras came out. The musician seemed amused by the whole thing, happy to take advantage of the sudden doubling of his audience, even if they were obviously not there for the music. The crowd, meanwhile, seemed to appreciate having the music as an excuse so they could stop and stare. And the guys they were with, well, they did a pretty good job of acting nonchalant, but you could tell that they and the girls were the happiest people there.

Beautiful weather today.
Some of my pictures might fit better in other threads - like Big Boob Cleaveage, Side Boob, Uppies or Downblouse.

But I'm going to put them all in this thread.

2nd batch

Batch 3

Batch 4