Screaming winds despatched costumes fluttering on the annual New York Metropolis Village Halloween Parade however the spooky procession marched on via Greenwich Village in decrease Manhattan.
Hundreds turned out alongside Sixth Ave. to strut in and revel in watching the Downtown establishment’s 52nd annual installment.
The everyday ghouls and ghosts turned out for the fright fest, together with New Yorkers dressed up with a nod to this yr’s “potluck” theme. The parade marshal this yr was Metropolis Harvest, which collects surplus meals from eating places, cafes and bakeries to handle starvation.
“The theme this year is ‘potluck,’ said Sunrise Windburn, of Brooklyn, who came as a marijuana leaf, with “420” emblazoned throughout her chest. “I’ve decided to take it a step further. I’m sure people will figure it out,” Windburn mentioned with a wink.
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Jacob Mesa, 9 (left), as Son Goku, and Annette Toribio (proper) as a New York staple, a cockroach, had been among the many members on the annual Village Halloween Parade on Friday night time. (Kerry Burke / New York Each day Information)
Different paradegoers dressed as NYC-specific terrors. Annette Toribio got here as a large cockroach. “I’m a born-and-bred New Yorker,” mentioned Toribio, who lives within the Bronx. “This is a New York theme,” she mentioned. “We’ve got a lot of roaches here,” she added, spinning round, her antennae waving.
Toribio’s husband, who declined to offer his identify, got here dressed as a rat. “Rats: a New York institution,” he mentioned.
Yaxi Xiao, 29, got here to the parade as a MetroCard and Mathew Sanchez, 29, an OMNY card. (Kerry Burke / NY Each day Information)
A pair from Astoria, Queens, rolled with a transit theme on the Village Halloween Parade, with Yaxi Xiao, 29, coming as a MetroCard and Mathew Sanchez, 29, an OMNY card.
“The MetroCard is dying and we had to say goodbye,” Xiao mentioned, as she peeked via her swiping MetroCard.
“Getting with the times,” Sanchez mentioned of his OMNY getup. “I was a longtime MetroCard holder but I had to stay current — New York is changing.”
“And,” Xiao interjected, “maybe now we’ll even have free buses.”
Others threw theme-dressing to the wind, and got here as their favourite characters. “I’m so glad to be here. I wanted to see all the costumes,” mentioned Jacob Mesa, 9, of Queens, who attended the parade together with his household. “I’m Son Goku,” Mesa mentioned, naming the primary character of the Japanese collection “Dragon Ball.”
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Crowds line the sidewalks and rooftops alongside Sixth Ave. to look at the Village Halloween Parade on Friday. (Kerry Burke / New York Each day Information)
