Witches, skeletons, zombies and ghouls of all sorts converged onto the streets of Manhattan on Saturday for New York's annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
Valerie Taylor sported a costume from the 1980s film "Beetlejuice." The New Jersey native spent months working on her costume: a woman cut in half on the sofa.
As thousands of spectators lined up along Manhattan's Sixth Avenue to catch a glimpse of the parade, a banana rubbed elbows with a jailbird, superheroes shared pavement with Spongebobs and a butterfly strolled alongside a pirate.
Open to anyone in a costume, the event prides itself on being an anything-goes spectacle. It started in 1973 with a puppeteer marching with his family. Over the years, it's grown into a televised spectacle drawing thousands of spectators.
