51st annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan (Oct 31,2024) — Thousands of people participated in New York City’s 51st annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade Thursday night with costumes inspired by this year’s “cat lady” theme.
The NYPD was prepared as always when the sun went down and the werewolves came out.
The theme this year was “Meow!” and celebrated the inner “cat lady” in everyone.
“The minute that the phrase was said about childless cat ladies – from Taylor Swift right down to the tiniest cat lady – everyone was on this,” said Director of the Village Halloween Parade, Jeanne Fleming.
The parade brought to life a celebration of cat-inspired artistry, individuality and bravado.
Leading the Halloween parade this year as grand marshal was Tony Award-winning actor André De Shields, best known for his role as Hermes in the Broadway musical ‘Hadestown’ and recently as Old Deuteronomy in ‘CATS: The Jellicle Ball.’
NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella said.
Some even traveled from across the world and country to bring their best costumes to the parade.
“We are from Whitley Bay in England,” one family said.
“We actually live in South Carolina and we flew up here to New York just to be in the parade this year,” said Mike Mullaney.
