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Sign into your accountWhy Zillow is Wrong About Halloween
October 19 2016
I have a bone to pick with our friends over at Zillow. Every year they do a list of the best places to trick or treat on Halloween. This is this year's list:
Yet again New York did not make the list.
Why?!
To make the cut, trick or treaters must be able to get serious candy in a short period of time. So Zillow considers home values, proximity of homes to one another, crime rate and percentage of youngsters under 10. Well – it's no wonder New York didn't make the cut! Sixty-nine percent of the population are renters and 86 percent of us are over 10. But I am here to make a case for New York trick or treating.
New York does Halloween better than any other city in the country
I'll give other holidays to other cities. Last year we officially said Rochester was the best city for Thanksgiving. Paris probably has Valentine's Day. Las Vegas can have bachelor parties (is that a holiday?). St. Patrick's Day can go to Chicago or Boston.
But New York has Halloween. We have a parade with over 50,000 people, a jack-o-lantern blaze with 7,000 pumpkins, a Halloween dog parade, horror film festivals, and countless haunted houses. Even our museums host Halloween Parties! It's also widely known that New Yorkers like costumes. We have Fashion Week, Broadway, the Met Gala....we even dress up for Christmas. So yes, Halloween is a big deal in Gotham.