Ahhh Brooklyn: a New York borough of diverse cultural institutions like Brooklyn College, Peter Luger Steakhouse, and now, the Real World. For what feels like season eighty-two of the show, MTV has dropped a bunch of histrionic, emotionally saturated, sociopathic drama queens in BK who are way freakier than the performers at the Coney Island Fre...

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I’ve never seen a spectacle quite like the Mermaid Day Parade in Coney Island. It was certainly an equal opportunity parade: women went without shirts, and looking at someone in a dress didn’t mean you were looking at a female. Though the website promised a family friendly parade, the parents in the crowd were less than excited to see people wea...

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