Thursday's parting shot

A ghost story on Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... pic by Stacie Joy. Looks great at night too!

Saturday's open shot

Season's greetings from Search & Destroy on St. Mark's Place.

Friday's parting shot

Photo by Stacie Joy 

Exit9 owner Charles Branstool has (a very limited supply of) upstate-grown pumpkins to give away to participants in the shop's pumpkin carving contest this month. It's all taking place on Instagram... and you can read all about how to take part right here. 

Exit9 is at 51 Avenue A between Third Street and Fourth Street if you want to stop by for any other reason.

Like a bat out of hell, a Halloween shop pops up on Avenue A

A pop-up shop for the Halloween season is now open at 70 Avenue A between Fourth Street and Fifth Street (in the vacant storefront between Cafe Social 68 and Mast). 

We're told that two locals, Angel and C.J., are behind this temporary venture. 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos from opening day back on Sunday...

This storefront was most recently Appolodine, a nail salon.

A very East Village Halloween

EVG contributor Stacie Joy was out and about on Halloween ... capturing the variety of costumes, from the store bought to the more elaborate creations... 

As always, movie characters remain popular, as you'll see with the Joker, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers.

We start at the Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition photoBOOth on Avenue B at Seventh Street ... and end in Tompkins Square Park where the meetup of the Deep Playa Nighttime Bike ride, Kostume Kult and the Renegade Halloween Parade came together (all under the watchful eye of Parks Enforcement division).

... and as always, it was the night he came home...

Halloween 2020

A few Halloween scenes from around the neighborhood courtesy of Derek Berg ...

Lick it up

As seen on Sixth Street... celebrating Halloween and avoiding speed cameras!

About the Mask-Querade event on 7th Street Halloween afternoon

East Village restaurateur Ravi DeRossi's Overthrow Hospitality company is hosting a socially distanced Trick-or-Treat Halloween festival for children ages 12 and under. 

It's happening on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 2-4 p.m. on Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

A few details via the EVG inbox...

Children accompanied by a parent or guardian are invited to trick or treat safely and socially distanced, with masks being required. Adults will be able to sit in designated viewing stations to watch children with complimentary mulled wine and spiced cider. 

Costumes are welcome, but not required. Masks and social distancing protocols will be enforced by volunteer community members as well as staggered entrance and exit times for participants.

We are looking for volunteers to hand out candy. If anyone is interested, then please send us an email at Speakup@OverthrowHospitality.com. 

DeRossi owns several restaurants on that block, including Avant Garden and Ladybird.  

Halloween at Economy Candy

Hard to believe that Halloween is less than three weeks away ... and it's traditionally a busy season for LES/NYC institution Economy Candy, which opened in 1937.

Skye and Mitchell Cohen, the third generation of husband-wife owners of Economy Candy, told me that they've "done a fraction of the business" they would normally do had they been operating as normal over these last six-plus months.

"October is typically our busiest month of the year, with Halloween being our busiest day, but with trick or treating in hot water this year our forecast isn’t ideal," Skye says.

Back in March, when the PAUSE went into effect, they launched the CandyCare Pack.

"We were overwhelmed by the 'pay it forward' nature of orders that came in," Skye says. "We started recognizing names as we were printing out shipping labels and thought something had gone wrong. While looking into it we realized we were recognizing names because people who had received CandyCare Packs were ordering and sending CandyCare Packs to their friends and family and so forth ... in lieu of regular social visits, which were made impossible by social distancing measures."

So this fall, they've introduced a variety of Halloween CandyCare Packs, which are currently available on their website for curbside pick up or to ship nationwide.

Economy Candy is at 108 Rivington St. between Essex and Ludlow. While the shop is closed for in-person shopping, they are open for curbside service. Find their website here for more details.

Images via Economy Candy

Good news if you're done with summer

EVG Fall Holiday Decoration Correspondent Goggla spotted Halloween items out at the Kmart on Astor Place... not to be outdone, the Rite Aid on First Avenue at Fifth Street trotted out the Thanksgiving decor...



Look for the Christmas trees by Labor Day.

Costume dramas! Halloween along Avenue B

As you may have noticed, Halloween was yesterday. As in previous years, EVG contributor Stacie Joy was stationed on Avenue B (Ben's Deli was a good spot) to check out the costumes.

Movie characters were, as always, a popular choice, from new films like "Joker" and "Midsommar" to standbys such as Jason Voorhees ("Friday the 13th" parts 1 through 678), Michael Myers ("Halloween") and Billy Loomis ("Scream") ... we even spotted one homage to "Schitt's Creek" ...