All these years in the Slope and we’ve never been brownstone streets trick-or-treaters. We usually stick to Seventh Avenue and do the parade.
Now that Ducky is around, though, we’ve started to venture onto Garfield and First Street for trick-or-treating and it’s quite a revelation.
People sit in front of their brownstones giving out candy. Some sit on top of the stoop and give out candy there (make ’em work for their candy!). Some even make you ring the doorbell.
Mid-block on Garfield there was a big crowd, music, applause. "What’s going on?" I asked. The Black Box Theater I was told. Some professional puppeteers do a black light puppet show out their ground floor window. The Puppets: a skeleton, some ghosts, a movable skull and a trumpet. The song: "I Ain’t Got No Body."
It is so well done and funny — I was WOWED. And it’s been going on for years. So I’m the last to know. It won’t be the last time.
Picture to come. Yoo Hugh, Where’s that picture?
Let us eat chocolate cake. If you’re ever in the 31 Montrose Avenue area in Williamsburg Brooklyn(between Union Avenue & Lorimer Street)you’ve got to try this Latino sister’s bakery. She sells her treats out of the only grocery store on the block. She’s got the stuff. It’s serious. I just sampled her apple tart, bread pudding muffin and the sickest (in a good way) double chocolate cake I’ve ever tasted. I think she could go places with her baking skills. Check her out.