OUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE BOROUGH OF KINGS
Photo by Jim McDonnell/Alliance for Coney Island
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BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
After a spookily silent season last
year, the streets of Brooklyn fi lled up
with ghouls and ghosts celebrating
Halloween from Greenpoint to Coney
Island with canine costume contests,
creepy concerts, and a carousel of
other spine-chilling celebrations.
Residents have been gearing up all
month long as Brooklynites decked
out their homes with cobwebs, infl atables,
and the internet favorite 12-foot
skeleton. Kings County may have a
claim over the title of most decorated
borough, from Dyker Heights, where
neighbors carried on the tradition
of decorating for Halloween even as
Dyker Frights took a year off to Mill
Basin, where residents were shaking
in their boots as the neighborhood continues
to get scarier by the season.
Children and families fi lled the
boardwalk on Saturday afternoon for
the Alliance for Coney Island’s 11th Annual
festival and parade, where kiddos
competed for best costume and took
part in arts-and-crafts before taking to
the boardwalk for a festive stroll.
Festooned families paraded around
Cobble Hill on Saturday afternoon
with in the Cobble Hill Association’s
annual Halloween parade, complete
with musical accompaniment from
the all-female band Brass Queens. The
parade followed a morning of fun for
as kids decorated the windows at the
association’s fourth-annual window
painting.
NIA Community Services Network
doubled the fun this year with two celebrations
over Halloweekend: their 6th
annual Spooktacular, a free street festival
hosted on 11th Avenue in Dyker
Heights, and their Halloween festival
at Owl’s Head Park in Bay Ridge. Both
offered tricks, treats, and costume contests,
along with a maze at the festival.
Halloween returns
Ghouls and goblins take over Brooklyn once again
(Clockwise from above) This year’s
winners triumphantly led their peers
down Riegelmann Boardwalk after
the annual Coney Island Children’s
Halloween Parade. Brass Queens,
an all-female Brooklyn-based brass
band, led the festivities through the
streets of Cobble Hill. Two Cobble
Hill chefs display their pot of pasta
at the annual Halloween parade.
Photos courtesy of Cobble Hill Association
Photo Courtesy of NIA Photo Courtesy of NIA