NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- There's good news for the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
It won't be scaled down as much as was feared. A dozen floats are now being prepared and though they'd like to have 20, the number is up from 7 earlier this week.
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Paul Murnane reports from Greenwich Village 
The parade has sponsors, but donations by individuals have been called its backbone.
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The parade's long time director tells AM New York that this year everyone, is chipping in to make it happen.
When people heard that the parade was in trouble, they wanted to help.
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Though, to hear it along the parade route, 6th Avenue from Canal to 21st Street, the neighborhood has a whole love/hate thing going on.
"I'm against all parades. People think that they can get away with anything when they're in a big group of people, " said one man.
A woman said, "It's fun, but, you know, you do it a couple of times and that's enough."
SEE: Photos from the 2008 Parade 
The parade gets underway Saturday night at 7 and the usual array of no parking signs have gone up in the neighborhood.
LINK: Official Web Site of the Parade 
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