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New York, Halloween, 2010

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 Manhattan skyline taken from the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn. Legend has it that the shoes represent the victims of crime gangs but New York seemed a peaceful enough city. People seemed to be more worried about the economic climate and (some) about the beating the Democrats took in the mid-term Congressional elections than about crime. Halloween  is a big deal in America. The locals hang skeletons, ghosts etc from their windows or scatter fake gravestones on their lawns. Fierce cut out pumkin heads are the dominant image but in a move obviously orchestrated by Pumpkin Producers of America, the vegetable also features strongly in Thanksgiving later in November. Caught these people on the steps of a handsome brownstone introducing the delights of touching a large pumpkin to a baby. This character and his friend were cruising the side streets of the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade While in the parade itself, a massive event involving thousands of marchers, all