NEW YORK – The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the fun and spooky activities planned in the city included a puppet parade, a memory game at the Empire State Building and the socially distant trick or treating.
Tens of thousands of Halloween fans often fill the streets of midtown Manhattan for the Village parade that has been a tradition for nearly 50 years. The parade organizers have planned a virtual puppet parade this year. “Take your front row seat and enjoy this wonderful miniature parade by some of our best artists,” they said on the parade website.
Indoor parties have been too scary this year, but city officials have said that trick-or-treating outdoors is fine as long as kids wear coronavirus masks in addition to masks that may be part of their costumes. “You can celebrate outdoors, but in small groups, with smart precautions,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on WNYC radio on Friday. “But no indoor meetings. That is too dangerous. “
Meanwhile, the most iconic building in New York has a new trick for Halloween. The Empire State Building will be turned into a giant Simon game from Hasbro, for anyone with a view of the building or access to its website to play.
The skyscraper lights will flash colors in patterns from 8 to 9 pm, which players will try to remember and correctly enter on their device. Up to 100,000 people can play.
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