New York Brownstone Becomes Halloween Showpiece

A historic brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been transformed into a Halloween showpiece, with skeletons riding bicycles, lounging on balconies and peering from windows across its facade.

X user NYC Photographer filmed the display on West 75th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue on October 16. Skeletons dressed as witches and pirates fill the window ledges and balconies, one pedals a bicycle mounted on the railing, and another in a blue gown leans out from a carved stone window as if waving to passers-by.

At street level, caution tape lines the fence, a giant spider hangs in webbing, and handmade signs warn visitors to “beware” and “go back,” while a tombstone marked “RIP” sits among the garden plants with a skeleton climbing out of the soil.

The brownstone blocks between Central Park and Columbus Avenue are among the city’s most popular Halloween destinations, with residents decorating their stoops and facades for weeks ahead of October 31.