Halloween is a big deal in my NYC neighborhood. (If you recognize it, please don’t post the name.) Started on Friday. Local public school had a fair with different activities after school. Saturday morning was the annual Halloween parade. Street cordoned off and a drum and bugle corps of high school kids starts off the parade, which ends at a local public park with bouncy houses, free pumpkins and supervised carving, karaoke, etc. Also food trucks. Sunday, outdoor trick or treating with candy from local merchants and organizations for a few hours in the afternoon. Tuesday, Trick or Treating in some buildings. In ours T or Ters have to live in the building or be invited by a resident, with name supplied to the management company a few days before.(If your name isn’t on the list, you’re not admitted to the building.) I got about 50 or so kids. Our system is that if you are participating, you get an orange symbol for your door from management and kids are only allowed to ring the bell of doors with the symbol. Management also hands out a list of participating apartment numbers, but a lot of kids just look for the symbol. Parents of little kids who want to t or t for only a little while tend to hit the floors with the most participating apartments. T or Ters only allowed from 4 to 9 pm.
In the old days, I’d get about 100 kids after 6 pm when I got home from work. But one year it turned into a total zoo with some vandalism in the building, so the rules were introduced.