Park Slope Halloween 2009
Pictures taken in Park Slope (Brooklyn) on Halloween afternoon and evening 2009. Includes the 24th Annual Park Slope Halloween Parade.
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1: 4:31 PM. I started taking pictures along 7th Avenue. Lamp shade head.
2: 4:31 PM. A pizza to be made. She has a ladle for the sauce. And holding a hunk of cheese. On right is jelly beans.
3: 4:35 PM. In front of
The Clay Pot. [No longer at this location.] In front is an Optimus Prime costume from the Transformers franchise. And a Rubie's Warrior King costume, aka Medieval Lionheart Knight.
4: 4:39 PM. Kid in front is wearing Rasta Imposta's Roaming Gnome costume. The mascot of Travelocity. In back, a "living statue" street performer. A type of artist who poses like a statue for hours at a time.
5: 4:39 PM. A street sweeper construction.
6: 4:44 PM. Plant from
Little Shop of Horrors. The fellow is being video interviewed by the
NYPost.com.
7: 4:54 PM. A bird.
8: 6:48 PM. For the parade pictures I put myself on 3rd St.
9: 6:48 PM. Waiting for the parade.
10: 6:56 PM. An almost full moon, but it was so overcast one rarely saw it.
11: 7:12 PM. The parade has reached my spot. Being on 3rd St gave me a dark background instead of storefronts. These inline skaters always lead the parade.
12: 7:12 PM. The inline skaters.
13: 7:12 PM. Next are the first response vehicles.
14: 7:14 PM. People hanging out by the ambulance.
15: 7:14 PM. Wearing a clown nose.
16: 7:14 PM. A witch.
17: 7:14 PM. An all drum band.
18: 7:15 PM. An arc construction full of kids. Many needed to move it.
19: 7:16 PM. Please: No flyers NO ads NO menus. An enlargement of the sign that the park slope Civic Council hands out.
20: 7:17 PM. The banner for the Park Slope Civic Council. They run the parade. A large jack-o'lantern pumpkin at left. A little knight and guitarist in front.
21: 7:17 PM. Senator Chuck Schumer, a neighborhood resident, is telling the crowd that he is for the "public option." He wanted it too be included in that year's health care reform legislation.
22: 7:17 PM. Senator Chuck Schumer, a neighborhood resident, is telling the crowd that he is for the "public option." He wanted it too be included in that year's health care reform legislation.
23: 7:17 PM. Oscar the Grouch from
Sesame Street. A float with Gersh Kuntzman the editor of
The Brooklyn Paper. A batman in the middle. A little super hero muscle uniform.
24: 7:17 PM. The float. They hard to hold it back from rolling down the hill.
26: 7:18 PM. Star Wars: Princess Leia pushing a child in a Droid R2-D2 construction. Her husband is a Clone Trooper. Another person in a Yoda costume can be seen in the background.
27: 7:18 PM. A motorcycle chopper rider, Japanese banners, a little fairy, and a witch.
28: 7:18 PM. Dr. Seuss's "Cat in the Hat" costume.
29: 7:18 PM. Welcome Great Pumpkin cart with Snoopy sitting on it. A reference to the classic Peanuts special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." At right is long banner.
30: 7:18 PM. Welcome Great Pumpkin cart with Snoopy sitting on it. A reference to the classic Peanuts special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."
31: 7:19 PM. A mostly accordion band. Behind is a banner for Historic Green-wood Cemetery.
32: 7:19 PM. A mostly accordion band. Behind is a banner for Historic Green-wood Cemetery.
33: 7:19 PM. A couple of murderers. Lens has: "This search can't be processed due to content guidelines." In AI Mode, there is no response available for this search.
34: 7:20 PM. Banner: You Haven't Lived Until You've Seen
Historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Talk a walk... join a tour... Become a member. And a large puppet to the left.
35: 7:20 PM. The mostly accordion band again.
37: 7:21 PM. A large speech bubble with "I Don't Know What I Want To Be For Hallowee." A common dilemma of choosing a Halloween outfit.
38: 7:21 PM. A Mexican pimp?
39: 7:21 PM. A tall puppet behind. A banner with fish. Likely a mermaid in front.
40: 7:22 PM. A large puppet of a sun-like figure.
41: 7:22 PM. A large puppet of a sun-like figure.
42: 7:23 PM. Menu Man.
43: 7:23 PM. A construction of the character Nemo from the Disney-Pixar film
Finding Nemo.
44: 7:23 PM. Two constructions: a Tootsie Roll and alphabet blocks.
45: 7:24 PM. Paula Deen. Her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, featured the "Best-Ever Bloody Mary."
46: 7:24 PM. Star Wars: Jawa costume and a Jedi with a lightsaber.
47: 7:24 PM. The center is wearing a Snake Eyes costume from the G.I. Joe franchise, and the child next to him is dressed as Darth Vader from Star Wars. With a red lightsaber. At right is a Jedi Guardian carrying a blue lightsaber.
48: 7:26 PM. Mock National Enquirer front page.
49: 7:26 PM. A butterfly.
50: 7:28 PM. Michael Myers from the slasher film series
Halloween.
51: 7:30 PM. Carnival costume. The colors are the official colors of Mardi Gras.
52: 7:31 PM. Something new, the Hearts of Steel, a steel band. A three-color jester hat at the left.
53: 7:31 PM. The Hearts of Steel, a steel band with Trinidad Roots.
54: 7:32 PM. Wall Street Clowns.
55: 7:32 PM. Wall Street Clowns. Each clown is labeled as parodies of Wall Street financial institutions.
56: 7:33 PM. A man taking a shower.
57: 7:33 PM. A construction of an airplane with a female aviator. At left, the Flintstones: Wilma and Pebbles. At right, a bee and Raggedy Ann.
58: 7:33 PM. Green Party candidate (for NY City Council District 39) David Pechefsky on his pedicab, made into and pirate ship. A jellyfish at the left.
59: 7:35 PM. A now headless fellow chopped off his own head, and is carry his head around.
60: 7:35 PM. A little astronaut construction.
61: 7:36 PM.
Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie.
62: 7:36 PM. 5th Street Samba Society banner. A short-lived local musical group.
63: 7:37 PM. Child in a Woolf's Box of Fries construction.
64: 7:37 PM. At left, a zombie ghost or a grim reaper.
65: 7:46 PM. Gingy, the Gingerbread Man from shrek with a Got Milk? sign. He needs milk to wash down the gingerbread.
66: 7:54 PM. The couple in the back is the one that Google won't process due to content restrictions. At right is a headless woman carrying her own head.
67: 7:54 PM. A skull with glowing teeth.
68: 7:56 PM.
Sesame Street: Oscar the Grouch in his garbage can. It should be Bruno the Trashman carrying the can, but Bruno never had a moustache.
69: 7:57 PM. Space alien and blue butterfly.
70: 8:02 PM. A dress with ?
71: 8:09 PM. 4th Street park block.
72: 8:13 PM. 4th Street park block.
73: 8:15 PM. 550 5th Street park block.
74: 8:15 PM. 550 5th Street park block.
75: 8:15 PM. 550 5th Street park block.
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