Boos You Can Use: NYC’s Best Halloween Displays

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Home Freak Home

This townhouse in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is home to an impressive collection of skeletons, witches and ghouls. 

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Upper Yeesch Side

This charming pair is part of an elaborate display on the Upper East Side on 67th Street. 

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Great Ape

Apparently King Kong has moved on from the Empire State Building and is now in Brooklyn Heights on Clark Street! (Near Willow.)

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Chillin in the Village

An elegantly-spooky display of bats, autumnal foliage and skeleton/spider duo for good measure in the Village on Washington Place off Sixth Avenue. 

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Eek a House

This house in Queens looks like a major HQ for a creepy crew! 

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Going for a Spin

A returning favorite on Christopher Street, the giant spider web is topped by a skeleton for 2020. 

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On the Web

Someone on this Upper West Side block really loves Halloween. #approve

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Peace is the Word

In Chelsea, it's all about Namaste. 

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Green with Frenzy

Meanwhile, on 36th Street in Manhattan, the displays of life-sized skeletons glow, and feature a nice contrasting violet light. 

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Character Appearances

We appreciate the maximalist sensibility of this display in Greenpoint. #moreismore

Dominating in Ditmas

This massive display in Ditmas Park in Brooklyn gets more elaborate each year. Spiders, creepy clowns, zombies, witches, skeletons, demons: no matter your nightmare, there's something for you! (Find it at the corner of Argyle and Albemarle Road. 

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Go Big or Go Home

Not for the faint of heart, this Halloween house in Middle Village not only sports a highly-coveted larger-than-life skeleton, its creepy display continues. (Click through photos for more terrifying tableaus.)

—Mimi O’Connor

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