Dinosaurs, Ghouls, Clowns & More At The Park Slope Halloween Parade

PARK SLOPE – Excited crowds lined 7th Avenue Wednesday night cheering on the costumed marchers in the Park Slope Civic Council‘s 32nd annual Halloween Parade.

The parade kicked off at 6:30pm at 7th Avenue and 14th Street, headed north on 7th, turned west onto 3rd Street until it reached the J.J. Byrne Playground where the family-friendly party continued outside the Old Stone House.

Among this year’s popular costumes were inflatable dinosaurs, towering ghouls, and Pennywise from It. A trio of giant traffic cones and a stick figure family (made with LED lights) were also favorites with parade-goers and photographers.

“Today was fantastic. It was a beautiful night, so many people turned out, there were some really great costumes, some really great homemade costumes which we always love,” said Kim Maier, Executive Director of the Old Stone House and one of the parade organizers. “It’s just an amazing community event where people come out and have a great time and people come from all over Brooklyn to be part of it which is what makes it so special.”

“We love this parade,” said Susan Fox, founder of Park Slope Parents, who was dressed as one half of the Park Slope Purple People Eater Parents. “It’s small enough so that you don’t feel like you’re getting crowded. It’s big enough that you feel it’s some event. And the people are just great,” she added.

Maier noted that Fox has been working with her and the other parade organizers since 2006 in coordinating the annual event, but Fox had been attending the Park Slope Halloween Parade for longer—17 years, “since [her] daughter was little and we stopped going to the one in Greenwich Village,” she said. “Ours is better,” Fox added with a laugh.