Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade: Trump, Harry Potter, and… a Chicken?
by B.A. Van Sise
From politics to pop culture, the pups at the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade were dressed in their very best disguises on a drizzly Saturday.
Martin Luther King told of his growing nightmares and his enduring dreams in the rolling, hypnotic cadences of the rural preacher. But it was the humane, incorruptible mystique of the man that won the crowd, his crescendo phrases winning affirmations of “amen” and “Say it, brother” again and again.
After a decades-long fight that pitted a multicultural community center against for-profit dorms, a court ruling has put the long-vacant building back into play
