Reporter’s notebook: Public-drinking crackdown at Mermaid Parade

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn PaperI got a ticket for drinking a beer at the Mermaid Parade — Brooklyn’s largest and most beloved public assembly of drunken perverts.
Sure, I’m guilty — I accept that I broke the law — but longtime patrons of the 34-years-and-running art party say the citation is totally unheard-of, and proof that Sodom by the Sea is losing its edge.“Man, this place has changed,&