Does Park Slope Have a Halloween-lovin' Griswold Family?
After peeping the above photo I felt absolutely inadequate about my own Halloween decorations, which always include a single bag of "decorative" candy corn (which I devour on the morning of November 1st), and a string of shitty pumpkin lights hung listlessly above the refrigerator. I was feeling OK about my bland choices (at least I didn't leave a vomiting pumkin on my stoop), until FiPS reader Steve wrote in with this photo and a note about a Park Slope brownstone that goes above and beyond when it comes to Halloween decor:
I've been in the Slope for 2 1/2 years. For the last three Octobers I've seen an impressive Halloween display slowly go up in a brownstone courtyard on 2nd Street. A couple years ago it was a pirate ship. Last year I think a cemetery. And this year it's a haunted American Savings Bank display. Whoever builds it really goes all out - the display takes up the whole courtyard, and there are lights hanging from the tree outside to illuminate the ghouls. If you walk 2nd Street, you can't miss it. It's on the north side of the street between 5th and 6th Aves.
Who are you, Halloween decorators? Do you, like Clark Griswold, ALSO perform a tongue drum roll upon lighting up the display? Step forward and reveal yourselves!
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