The next year, the parade went from Jane Street at the Hudson River to Washington Square Park. In 1974, an informal parade of puppets for children was organized by Ralph Lee of the Mettawee River Theatre Company around his residence of artists in the Westbeth Artists Community. The parade usually starts at 7 PM and lasts for about two to three hours. The official route, on Sixth Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street in Manhattan, is 1.4 miles long (the distance from the gathering spot on Sixth Avenue from Canal Street to Spring Street adds another 0.2 miles). In addition, there are some commercial Halloween parade floats. In addition to the puppets, more than 50 marching bands participate each year. The official parade theme each year is applied to the puppets. The parade's signature features include its large puppets, which are animated by hundreds of volunteers. The Village Halloween Parade has been called "New York's Carnival." The parade is largely a spontaneous event as individual marchers can just show up in costume at the starting point without registering or paying anything.
The parade reports itself to have 50,000 "costumed participants" and 2 million spectators.
The parade, initiated in 1974 by Greenwich Village puppeteer and mask maker Ralph Lee, is the world's largest Halloween parade and the only major nighttime parade in the United States. The Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade on the night of every Halloween, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. A Tusken Raider rides a mammoth-sized Bantha puppet, designed by Oliver Dalzell.
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