New York Halloween parade marches on hours after eight killed in truck ‘terror attack’
New York mayor: ‘We are going to go about our business in the city, and we are not going to be deterred’
Security was heavy as the Greenwich Village parade stepped off Tuesday about 1.6 kilometres away and four hours after the truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along the bike path near the World Trade Centre memorial.
But the raucous spectacle rolled along with its floats, bands, anything-goes sensibility and thousands of spectators.
“I’m not going to let it scare me,” Cathryn Strobl, a 23-year-old New Yorker, said as she waited for the parade to start in her Buffy the Vampire Slayer costume.
“You can’t let it stop you from living your life.”
Police said they added extra officers, heavy weapons teams and sand trucks as protective blockers along the parade route. But officials emphasised that New Yorkers should feel safe.