The Daily Heller: Missing Miss Mermaids on Land and Under the Sea After New York City's Coney Island Mermaid Paradewas canceled in June 2020 because of the pandemic, illustrator Carol Fabricatore, like so many participants and fans, felt a sense of loss. "In order to feel the happiness and delight of the parade, I decided to channel all the swirling bright colors and large personalities into a body of work," she says of her series of 15 Now, Mermaid Day (which routinely happens on or around the third Saturday every June) has been postponed for the second year, becoming yet another of the city's unique cultural public projects impacted by the virus. So, Fabricatore's portraits are today even more welcome.