Fun and 'Frights' at the Halloween Parade

Goblins, ghouls, and ghastly zombies were as abundant as ever at the 2011 Park Slope Civic Council Children's Halloween Parade, with a rather large turnout of costumed marchers and viewers for a Monday night.

View more Halloween photos by Hugh Crawford here.

The Civic Council's Halloween Parade has been a part of neighborhood life since 1986. Building on 25 years of community creativity, we’ll be looking for lots of Brooklyn’s ghostly history, alluring apparitions and Park Slope phantasms, along with a heavy dose of skeletons and other creatures that go bump-in-the-night.

Halloween got off to brisk start on Seventh and Fifth Avenues, with a seemingly never-ending swarm of imaginatively attired children, eagerly holding up their bags to retailers handing out an abundance of sweets and treats. Walking along the sidewalk was an obstacle course of visual delights. Royalty and robots, animals and anime, pirates and prisoners, and even an inflated Sumo wrestler strolled the streets of the Slope in the afternoon and into the evening.

The parade began rolling down Seventh Avenue at 14th Street around 6:30, led by two carefully driven ambulances. The vehicles were loaded with a cornucopia of candies, which the emergency technicians and other volunteers like Matt Pintchik handed out by the bagful. They were followed by the Civic Council trustees carrying our organization's banner, and an energetic group of visiting and local elected officials, including City Councilmembers Brad Lander and Christine Quinn; State Assemblymembers Jim Brennan and Joan Millman; and City Taxi and Limousine Commission David Yassky, who came dressed as -- what else? -- a taxi.
 

See more of Don Wiss' gallery of Halloween photos here.

Read more about the parade in the November Civic News.

 

Thanks to the 2011 sponsors of the parade: the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce, the Park Slope Farmer’s Market, Park Slope Parents, the Old Stone House, Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, the Puppeteers’ Cooperative, Lois Jackson Pediatric Dentist,  Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the Park Slope Day Camp.

 

 

Twas a Dark and Spooky Night in 2010

Read about the 2010 parade, the 24th edition of the march, at Civic News!