6th avenue Spring/21th

Halloween is the closest to a spontaneous street festival - anybody with a costume can participate by roaming the streets or marching in the parade - as we did. Quite a feeling to walk up in the middle of 6th avenue crowded with people and inadvertently and anonymously appear in 100s of tourists home movies and photographs. The only problem with the crowds on and along the parade route, it was getting a bit harder to get back to the west-side, as they seem to insist in pushing everybody east at the end of the route. Even without, or after the parade, here is enough critical mass of people in costumes around downtown to get fully into the Halloween spirit without having to go to a party somewhere or to feel silly riding the subway dressed as a vampire, as a web-page, a clown or an MTA track worker - or maybe he was real? Obviously the nice dry and warm weather was helping too.