The seventh annual Barnacle Parade took over the streets of Red Hook on the evening of October 29. This year, the homemade neighborhood extravaganza took on the theme “Hook-Lantis, ”reimagining Red Hook as a fully underwater city, where public submarines–with humans and sea creatures alike as co-passengers–stand in for MTA buses.
As usual, the event drew a wide range of costumed participants and local children, who followed a band and a massive man-powered float from the corner of Pioneer and Van Brunt to the waterfront and back, memorializing one of Red Hook’s darkest days with joy and humor. A block party followed.
