Celebrate 50 years of Ragamuffin with us!

Ragamuffin is turning 50 years young this October and the Home Reporter and Spectator are planning to celebrate in a big way.

We will be honoring the beloved Bay Ridge institution with a commemorative special section, and we would love to see your pictures and memories of the prized parade.

Send your photos and anecdotes to editorial@brooklynreporter.com for a chance to see them in the paper or on our website! 

To kick off the anniversary celebration, 74th Street and Third Avenue will be co-named Ragamuffin Way, and, this year, the parade committee has opted to re-imagine its usual pre-parade fundraising luncheon (at which they usually honor the year’s grand marshal and “Ragamuffin Person of the Year”) as a commemorative gala dinner at the Bay Ridge Manor on September 24.

The first Ragamuffin Parade took place in October of 1966 and was put together by Father McKenna of Our Lady of Angels and Ridgeite Cliff Scanlon. The duo decided to round up neighborhood children and put on a parade with the kids dressed in their parents’ oversized clothes, just for the fun of it. Now, thousands of smiling, costumed children march along Third Avenue every year, still very much for the fun of it.

This year’s Ragamuffin Parade will take place on Saturday, October 1.

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