Seeing double at the Washington Market Park Halloween Party on Sunday, Oct. 25. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib
Tribeca’s Washington Market Park was a sea of costumed revelers and activities Sunday afternoon, Oct. 25, as more than 4,000 kids and former kids paraded into the Halloween-festooned green space for the neighborhood’s biggest annual event.
Led down Greenwich Street by the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps marching band, the crowd found a dizzying array of entertainment awaiting them, from jugglers, stunt artists and the Baby Soda jazz band, to carnival games, a very lifelike Big Bad Wolf and a “haunted” garden complete with cobwebs and tombstones. (“Here lies non-Tribecan Mr. Koehler. He got run over by a double stroller,” read one epithet.)
Organized by Friends of Washington Market Park [1], the celebration began the evening before with the park’s first Pumpkin Carving Contest [2] and an impressive 52 entries vying for the titles of “Most Creative,” “Funniest,” and “Scariest,” plus best carved creation by a child.
Not surprisingly, it takes a large corps of helpers to make a Halloween party like this happen. Planning begins as early as May, said Erica Martini, co-president of Friends of Washington Market Park, with 12 members of the friends group and 36 New York Cares volunteers on hand for the big event.
Below, a video slideshow featuring some of the thousands of costumed partiers, small and large, with musical accompaniment by the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps.
Links:
[1] http://www.washingtonmarketpark.org/
[2] http://www.washingtonmarketpark.org/pumpkincontest/
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fwYOdC-JY