NEW YORK (1010 WINS/AP) -- ``I'm the Statue of Peep-erty!'' shouted Maja Kluver, posing for photos Sunday in her 3-foot-tall Statue of Liberty hat made of green Peeps.
A block away, Penny England was the Queen of Hearts on stilts shouting ``Off with their heads.''
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All standard attire for the Easter Parade, which started out as a chance for prosperous New Yorkers to strut their holiday finery after church and has evolved into spring's answer to Halloween.
There were Peeps in Traci Vance's and Zoe Werner's act as well. The two friends were dressed in tennis clothes with rabbit ears perched above their visors. Each had a dog on a leash _ cirnecos, an Italian rabbit-hunting breed. Instead of tennis balls, the women lobbed Peeps back and forth.
``She just came up with the tennis idea and we decided to go with it,'' Vance said.
The parade was immortalized in the 1948 movie ``Easter Parade'' starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire.
In modern times it consists of fancifully attired people milling around Fifth Avenue while other people take their pictures.
Nancy Woram of Toms River, N.J. spent a week making the hats modeled by her four daughters, aged 13 to 20. Each hat was a carrot made of orange chenille covering a wire frame. Styrofoam eggs, stuffed bunnies and crepe paper flowers were affixed to them.
Woram said she and her family have been coming to the parade for 17 years.
``We came to watch a parade, not realizing we could be the parade,'' she said. ``And it's fun making people smile.''
Photos by Sonia Rincon
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