Halloween has come and gone. Now all we have left of the holiday are mountains of candy, a jack-o'-lantern that's probably already started to rot and the remnants of your costume lying around the house (or the neighborhood).
But, oh what a night it was. No one encapsulates that statement better than New Yorkers. Every year, New York hosts the Village Halloween Parade, which takes over Greenwich Village along Sixth Avenue, from Spring Street to 16th Street.
This is one of the most famous Halloween celebrations in the city where revelers don their best ghostly get-ups, huge, handmade puppets soar above the crowd and people bust a move on fearsome floats. You can only enter the parade route if you're in costume, which really helps Halloween take over the streets of New York.
It's just like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, except with a lot more masquerading, things that go bump (and grind) in the night and a whole lot of mischief. So it's basically nothing like that parade.
Whoopi Goldberg served as the Grand Marshall for the parade this year, and she posted a photo of herself in costume on Facebook before the festivities began.
I'm not really sure what she's supposed to be, and to be honest, that costume was kind of lame for someone who's supposed to be leading a Halloween parade. It would have been a million times better if she just wore the costume from The View's Halloween special, a Black Swan-inspired outfit.
Alas, New Yorkers were much better at getting into the spirit of Halloween than Goldberg with totally crazy, creative and creepy costumes perfect for the occasion. Check out some of the best photos of the Village Halloween Parade found on Instagram.
And you thought @judes23 was creepy before #villagehalloweenparade #annabelle
A photo posted by @brockroyall on Oct 10, 2014 at 4:43pm PDT
#halloween #halloweenparade A photo posted by @gokceuzun_ on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:01pm PDT
This is Halloween in New York...
A video posted by Pearly Meixsel (@pearlmeister) on Oct 10, 2014 at 8:36pm PDT
The very interesting faces and costumes of the #halloweenparade in the #village ! A photo posted by vic z (@victravi) on Oct 10, 2014 at 9:13pm PDT
#halloween #ny #nyc #newyork #thewalkingdead #tyresse #michonne #daryldixon #twd A photo posted by Fernando Veneziani (@fernandoveneziani) on Oct 10, 2014 at 8:40pm PDT
#luxury #Halloween at its best #Chanel #hermes A photo posted by Candice Gallagher (@_candj) on Oct 10, 2014 at 8:19pm PDT
#Eye see you, guts and all #Halloween #costume A photo posted by Candice Gallagher (@_candj) on Oct 10, 2014 at 10:17pm PDT
Halloween parade. A photo posted by Benjamin Thuresson (@benjaminthuresson) on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:31pm PDT
A photo posted by David Vernaza (@davidvernaza) on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:30pm PDT
Happy Halloween! #NYC #NYCHalloweenParade #ZombieCostume #DoctorCostume #GreenwichVillage #Halloween A photo posted by Justyna Sitko (@justynasitko) on Oct 10, 2014 at 11:41am PDT
A photo posted by Caitlin (@ctepper) on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:54pm PDT
#Halloween #quarantine #ebola #NYC #villagehalloweenparade A photo posted by Photo4189 (@photo4189) on Oct 10, 2014 at 5:16pm PDT
A photo posted by Kevin Caston (@klcaston) on Oct 10, 2014 at 4:56pm PDT
The only place to be on #halloween #bleeckerstreet. #greenwichvillage #NYC no place in the world like it. A photo posted by @dancermje on Oct 10, 2014 at 4:06pm PDT
