Atlantic Antic


After a 2-year hiatus, New York's top street festival is back on schedule for Sunday September 21, 2003 from 10AM- 6PM on Atlantic Avenue from Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill to Fourth Avenue in Boerum Hill. Some of New York's best street shopping and eating is to be found at the Antic with its premier craftspeople, vendors, open-air kitchens, sidewalk sales and back-to-back performances lining the street. Come out to the Antic; meet your friends & family and shop, stroll and nosh your way up and down the Avenue.

This year the The Antic features more distinctive music and entertainment areas and more Antics: a Cheesecake Eating contest, an Arabic music stage, a Main Stage and two performance areas at Pete's Waterfront and Magnetic Field, to showcase Brooklyn's hottest performers. Eddie The Sheik, Paprika, Tutu & The Blackwater Experience,The Black Coffee Blues Band, The Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus are in the line up. Kids will enjoy the Flying Bridge puppets, Black Cowboy pony rides, clowns, face painting, Bonga, Gowanus Wildcats drill team, and Big Chair digital pix.

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The Atlantic Antic was established in 1974 by local merchants and is currently produced by the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation, a not-for-profit organization committed to the economic development of the Atlantic Avenue from Brooklyn's East River waterfront to Flatbush Avenue. The event spans four neighborhoods and attracts more than 300,000 people. For more information, call 718-875-8993 or email: atlantic494ldc@aol.com.

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