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To master each step of this performance, the participants rehearsed until the last minute, the day before the parade

This year, nearly 2 million people attended the parade, considered the largest in the world.

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Key facts

  • This year, nearly 2 million people attended the parade, considered the largest in the world.
  • To master each step of this performance, the participants rehearsed until the last minute, the day before the parade.
  • This event is the largest Halloween parade in the world, transforming the city into a huge open-air stage each year.

This year, nearly 2 million people attended the parade, considered the largest in the world.

To master each step of this performance, the participants rehearsed until the last minute, the day before the parade.

This event is the largest Halloween parade in the world, transforming the city into a huge open-air stage each year.

By the thousands, participants fill the streets to liven up this large-scale gathering.

This tradition is inherited from the first parades organized in the 1970s.

“Our role is to interact with the crowd, to give them the impression that everyone has been touched by an element of the parade,” described a puppeteer. “I'm so excited to be dressed up in this amazing city and share it with all these people,” said one attendee. “It’s incredible, they are really very strong,” assured a spectator.

Every October 31, Manhattan is transformed into a huge open-air stage for Halloween.

This year, New York's Halloween parade brought together nearly 2 million people.

Three iconic minutes, repeated around thirty times along 6th Avenue and which electrify the crowd each time they pass.

On the evening of October 31, New Yorkers want to make us shiver.

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