Man’s greatest buddy will not be strutting the East Village in cute and artistic costumes this 12 months.
Organizers of the annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Parade say the occasion needed to be canceled attributable to ongoing work within the park.
“Despite our greatest efforts to maintain the parade going, with ongoing building work in each our native parks there was simply no strategy to maintain the parade this 12 months,” the occasion organizers posted to Instagram Wednesday.
The yearly parade normally attracts hundreds of spectators and helps elevate money for the park’s canine run. The publish saying the occasion cancelation says donations will nonetheless be accepted to assist with upkeep and enhancements.
The information comes roughly one month earlier than Halloween what would have been the thirty third version of the puppy spectacle.
Gothamist reports the park’s development would pressure the parade into neighboring streets, a transfer that brings a hefty allow price ticket of $50,000. Efforts to carry down or waive these charges haven’t confirmed profitable.
Until the parade makes a grand return, this is a have a look at a number of the greatest costumed canines from final 12 months’s parade: