Hundreds of costumed canines present up every year for the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade, making for a beloved NYC custom. But sadly, this annual pageant in Manhattan has been canceled for 2023, occasion organizers say.
A publish on the organization’s web site reads merely, “Parade has been cancelled for the foreseeable future.” Considering that is the biggest Halloween canine costume contest in NYC—and even perhaps on the planet—the announcement shook followers of the occasion.
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This is not the primary time the beloved pageant needed to shut down. Amid the pandemic in 2020, the parade paused, nevertheless it got here roaring again in 2021. This yr’s closure is not pandemic associated, although. In a post on Instagramthe occasion’s leaders defined:
“Despite our greatest efforts to maintain the parade going, with ongoing building work in each our native parks there was simply no method to maintain the parade this yr.
As lots of you’re conscious the Halloween Parade is a fundraising occasion to lift money for upkeep and enhancements within the canine run. If you want to donate to assist the canine run please comply with the link in our bio.”
Some of our favourite costumes from previous years embrace Phantom of the Opera, Starbarksand even an NYC garbage can. The creativity is aware of no bounds.
In addition to pets and their people, a whole bunch of spectators gathered on the sidelines to cheer on these canine rivals as they vied for high canine.
If you are on the lookout for different canine costume contests, Fort Greene’s Great PUPkin contest is all the time a dog-gone good time.
The of us at Tompkins Square nonetheless need to see pictures of your pets of their Halloween finery. They’re asking for New Yorkers to tag their Instagram account in your pictures. As they are saying, “it is nonetheless our favourite vacation,” even when this yr’s occasion is off the desk.
