HUNTS POINT FISH PARADE 2008

This is local news coverage of The 5th annual Hunts Point Fish Parade & Summer Festival! Each year the Fish Parade marches through Hunts Point, sponsored by local organizations and residents.
This year the Fish Parade will be held on Saturday June 19.
10:30am - Parade registration and activities @ Hunts Point Riverside Park
11:30am - Parade launches! Travels to Barretto Point Park.
12 - 5pm - The Summer Festival takes place at Barretto Point Park with food, activities, main stage performances, basketball games, boat rides, and more!
For more info:
www.thepoint.org/fish-parade-s...
WHAT IS THE FISH PARADE?
The first Hunts Point Fish Parade was held in 2003 to raise public awareness to the community that was to become home to the Fulton Street Fish Market, following in the trail of wholesale meat and fruit vendors. Prior to the first parade, THE POINT CDC spearheaded an outreach to and protest for the residential neighborhood, highlighting environmental concerns about a huge commercial enterprise coming to the area (more pollution from truck traffic, for example). When the move became inevitable, the parade became a vehicle to celebrate Hunts Point and to get to know our new neighbor. Loosely modeled after the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island, the parade welcomes the participation of community groups, organizations and individuals. Key to the Fish Parade is an emphasis on incorporating some of the quality-of-life issues in Hunts Point into the pageantry of Parade. Winding for a mile through the streets of Hunts Point, and culminating at Barretto Point Park, the procession features new and vibrant work by emerging artists, community groups and schools throughout the Bronx and beyond.
Special thanks to Neighborhood Journal and Cablevision for allowing us to re-broadcast this story.