Photos by Stacie Joy
We've now spotted two East Village shops with Halloween decorations depicting bodies wrapped in black trash bags and hanging upside down. (At least, we hope they're decorations.)
The effect is more macabre crime scene than traditional Halloween spookiness...
Anyway, let us know if you spot a third hanging body. We'll have a trend piece to pitch the Times!
Updated 10/23
Thanks to commenters... we have our third! Woowoo!
Whoa! And we spotted one more on 14th Street...
Updated 10/30 
ONE MORE ON AVENUE B!
11 comments:
There was another on St Marks I think between Ave A and 1st. Might’ve been outside of Bua if I’m remembering correctly.
Whatever they want, and I’m not offended by most artful depictions of death, but no fan
of this degree of macabre. Of course, “grown ups” hijacked Halloween long ago.
How about putting some of the fun back and maybe not scare the kids and give the rest of us nightmares?
Very disturbing. Looks to me like
"strange fruit". All over the northeast where I just traveled.
Agreed; what happened to all the firemen and princesses of Halloweens past?
The NAACP in Bucks County, PA recently complained about one such display. Not hard to see why.
Just checked Amazon. You can buy these, shown both upside down and right side up.
Ohhh please people
Yeah, for this specific reason I'm not loving this decor choice.
Dark Shadows still alive & well!
On what used to be EVSC on st marks bet 1/A
Come on. No one's calling for a boycott or a ban or whatever. Just saying that the taste level is a bit off on this one.
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