“Trick or Treat on the Street”! October 31st, 5pm - 78th Street Plaza

Dear Friends & Neighbors,

We hope you are all doing well and are coping with the after-effects of the hurricane as safely as you can. Jackson Heights escaped with relatively minor damage and we are very aware of how lucky we are.

Normally at this time of year, the Jackson Heights Beautification Group organizes a Children’s Halloween Parade, where all the neighborhood kids march down 37th Avenue in costume and receive goody bags at the end of it, all sponsored and organized by the JHBG.

Unfortunately this year due to the storm the NYPD cannot spare the resources to coordinate the event, so it has been cancelled.

We think that it would be nice to give our neighborhood kids something fun to do on Halloween since they can’t go to the parade, so we have come up with a smaller alternative event which we call…

“TRICK OR TREAT ON THE STREET”

5pm, October 31st, 78th Street Plaza (78th street between 34th Avenue and Northern Boulevard)

- Show up with your costumed kids

- Bring some candy to share

- Set up at one of the tables that we’ll provide

- Let your kids trick or treat on the street!

Here is what we have in mind: We have some nice cafe tables from the DoT, and picnic benches which we can line all the way down the street. Parents can stand at these tables with goodies, and the kids can trick or treat their way up and down the street.

Since this is a very last minute thing, we’re going to need some help getting the street ready for this.

We’ll need help with:

- telling the neighborhood about this

- setting the street up tomorrow before the event (just moving some things around, cleaning the storm debris off the street)

- putting the tables out

- and very importantly, putting the tables away at the end of the evening!

If you can help, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know.

The more people who can come, the better this will be, so please tell everyone you know about this, forward this email to friends, print out the flyer that’s here and post it in your buildings and local stores…

Thank you,

The Jackson Heights Green Alliance

p.s. It will probably rain tomorrow, but it’s forecasted to stop at 4 which should be perfect timing. And if it’s still a little drizzly, that will help make it a little more spooky!