{"id":28216,"date":"2017-11-01T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28216"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:31:08","slug":"exuberant-and-defiant-new-yorkers-flock-to-halloween-parade-despite-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28216","title":{"rendered":"Exuberant and defiant, New Yorkers flock to Halloween parade despite attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK Nov 01 (TNS):<\/strong> Thousands of merry-makers, many dressed in elaborate Halloween costumes, paraded through lower Manhattan, undeterred by the attack that unfolded just hours earlier when a driver mowed down dozens of people on a bike path a few blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Revelers who joined the 44th annual Village Halloween Parade said they were painfully aware that eight people were killed in what authorities say was an act of terrorism but carried on with the festivities to show fortitude and solidarity with the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gotta live your life, you can\u2019t let things like this discourage you,\u201d said 60-year old Michael Spain along the route. \u201cAs sobering as they are, you still gotta come out and enjoy stuff like this &#8211; or they win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in costumes took part in the annual celebration along Greenwich Village\u2019s Sixth Avenue, typically one of the nation\u2019s largest Halloween parades. Hundreds of uniformed police officers maintained a steady presence throughout the mile-long route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, you will see an increase of NYPD personnel throughout NYC, including the Halloween Parade,\u201d the New York City Police Department said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Among the participants were a Rio de Janeiro-style group with the drums, witches and ghosts, and a massive D\u00eda de los Muertos group with 12-foot-tall skeletons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight we\u2019re at a Halloween parade to say, you didn\u2019t win and you didn\u2019t affect us, and we\u2019re out and we\u2019re celebrating and we\u2019re doing what New Yorkers do and we\u2019re living our lives because we\u2019re not going to allow the terrorists to win. Period,\u201d New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I\u2018m here marching in the parade, not because I have a great costume.\u201d said Cuomo, who was dressed in a suit and tie.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Arias, the owner of a wine shop and an adjacent bar near King Street, said that the crowd was slightly smaller than in past years but not by much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 5 o\u2019clock the street was a bit empty and last year it was already full,\u201d Arias, 42, said in Spanish. \u201dBut now the crowds are more normal compared to last year. Maybe a little less, but almost the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK Nov 01 (TNS): Thousands of merry-makers, many dressed in elaborate Halloween costumes, paraded through lower Manhattan, undeterred by the attack that unfolded just hours earlier when a driver mowed down dozens of people on a bike path a few blocks away. Revelers who joined the 44th annual Village Halloween Parade said they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,488],"tags":[159,733],"class_list":["post-28216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28221,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions\/28221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}