"This is the street for Halloween."
Morgan Rantapaa, 32, just moved to West 69th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, where she has a front row seat of a block known as the spookiest in the neighborhood come October.
"This is amazing, I've never seen anything quite like it," she said of the decor, as she took a break outside her apartment Friday.
But her breaks don't last long.
Ever since the decorations went up last weekend, there's been a steady stream of people marching down the block, wanting Rantapaa to help snap photos of them with the decorations.
The new resident was impressed not just by the level of work and detail that goes into the block's annual Halloween celebration, but with the respect it commands.
"If this was the West Village, this all would have been stolen," Rantapaa of her former neighborhood. "This wouldn't last a day on Christopher Street."
In case you can't make it to West 69th Street, we rounded up the best of the best below:
A goblin is poised to grab anyone who dares pass by.
You've been warned.
A peg-legged pirate skeleton and his parrot kick it on a brownstone stoop.
A purple-haired witch on a broomstick collides with a tree.
Spiiiiiderrrrrs!!!
There are plenty of funky ghouls hanging around.
Not all of the block's decorations are spine-tingling.
Where to start with this macabre scene?
Giant spiders descend a brownstone.
Now you know why it's the spookiest block around.
