It's remarkable that Coney Island has survived as long as it has. One of the stories they tell about Walt Disney was that visiting a carnival like Coney Island inspired him to build Disneyland, so the "sanitation" strategy has a quite a pedigree.

Is this parade part of the community resistence to development, or did it start as an art happening, ala the solstice parades in Santa Barbara , Seattle , etc.

RC McCloud also writes at The Safe Word