The East Village is a Manhattan neighborhood east of Greenwich Village, long associated with punk rock, poetry, immigrants, artists and a fiercely local community spirit. It is home to Tompkins Square Park, where the Halloween Dog Parade has marched for more than three decades. The neighborhood’s mix of old-school New York and creative chaos is precisely the parade’s character: hundreds of costumed dogs, homemade floats and crowds that treat the whole joyful spectacle as a point of civic pride.
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