By Vladimir Brezina
… and the residents of our neighborhood don’t let you forget it!
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Last year’s Halloween photos are here, and the previous year’s here.
Posted in Art, New York City
Tagged Halloween, Manhattan, New Year, Photography, Spooky, Street Decorations
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Costume, Halloween, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The famous Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village was canceled, or at least postponed, because of Hurricane Sandy. But on the Upper East Side, the Carnegie Hill Neighbors’ second annual “Halloween Spooktacular” block party, held among the elaborate Halloween decorations on East 92nd Street, was even bigger than the first!
A few highlights:
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Posted in Art, New York City, Society
Tagged Block Party, Halloween, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
Elsewhere, it might have been quite enough that this big scary thing was going to join the party.
But on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, people take their Halloween very seriously.
No mere hurricane was going to restrain their Halloween decorations!
Here are a few highlights:
Click on one of these photos to start a slideshow:
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I think these portraits qualify, too, as an appropriate response to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week, Spooky…
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Tagged Halloween, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Spooky, Street Decorations
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s Travel-Themed photo challenge this eek is Spooky.
This is still an old photo, from Halloween 2011. But I will head out any day now to take fresh photos of this year’s Halloween decorations that are now cropping up in our neighborhood. It should be a spooky Halloween this year…
… unless of course Hurricane Sandy spooks us out first. Current forecasts have it arriving in New York City precisely on Halloween!
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Tagged Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Spooky, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week, Ailsa’s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge is On Display.
And it’s that time of year again…
This was the display last year (more photos are here). This year’s display is already starting to go up. Watch this space in a couple of weeks!
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Tagged Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Street Decorations, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Create.
And these two did create quite an impression!
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Tagged Costumes, Halloween, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Arranged: “… find something in your environment which was arranged by a human hand …”
Hmmm…. how about a human hand arranged?
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Tagged Arranged, Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Street Decorations, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Halloween. But I was stuck at home working. It was clear I wasn’t going to make it to the Halloween Parade in the Village this year.
But around 5 p.m., unusual sounds from the street below began to penetrate my concentration. I discerned excited voices, children’s squeals, and then—the beat of dance music!
When I emerged to take a look, I found that my block of 92nd Street, between Madison and Park Avenues, had been blocked off and the First Annual Carnegie Hill Halloween Block Party was in full swing!
It was mostly for children. Little ghosts, goblins, skeletons, witches, dragons, tigers, superheroes, knights in armor, princesses, pumpkins, bananas, cobwebbed barrels and even tubs of popcorn, some young enough to be held in arms by their parents who clearly were having just as much fun, cavorted in the street. A little later there was a tiny parade, and prizes were awarded for best costumes. Then, the main business of the evening: trick-or-treating from house to house. Many houses in that block have for days been festooned with their own cobwebs, giant black spiders, and grinning skeletons in anticipation.
Here are a few photos.
Posted in Art, Culture, New York City, Society
Tagged Costumes, Halloween, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
The Upper East Side of Manhattan takes Halloween very seriously. Halloween is still some days away, but decaying bodies, chained skeletons, and giant black spiders have festooned the area for weeks. The block of 92nd Street between Madison and Park Avenues is particularly worth seeing… here are some photos from that block and a couple of adjacent ones.
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Tagged Halloween, New York City, Photography, Street Decorations
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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