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SCARSDALE, N.Y. Vampires, witches and wizards were joined by pirates and princesses - most under four feet tall to take over the streets of downtown Scarsdale Sunday afternoon.
No, it wasn't Occupy Wall Street come to the suburbs. Rather, it was Scarsdale's annual Hallloween Parade, courtesy of the park and recreation department.
Hundred-or-so people, mostly tots and their parents, stepped off just after 3 p.m. from in front of Chase Park and headed up Spencer Place decked out in their Halloween finery. As two little princesses prepared to join in, their mother, grandmother and great grandmother beamed with pride.
"You have four generations here," said Marion Tessar of the Sax Woods area, whose granddaughters Samantha, 3, and Madison, 6 - were decked out in similar blue princess costumes. The girls were in the parade two years ago, she said, "We're lucky to be in this town," she said. "I've only been here for 40-plus years. Their daddy used to be in this parade. And talk about a perfect day."
The weather did cooperate, with cool, fall-like temperatures pushing 60 and plenty of sunshine.
Kirsten Migaletti said she and her family came to Scarsdale, where she grew up, from their Katonah home to see the window painting that went on all day, and were pleasantly surprised to see the parade. A 2001 graduate of Scarsdale High School, she said married her high school sweetheart, John, from the class ahead of her. They were in the village with son Michael, 7-months-old, and her mother, Cathie Mongarella of Scarsdale, "going around and reminiscing" about the days when they used to take part in the local festivities. "Things have changed so much," she said.
"We have a picture of my husband and I from this parade when we were 3 and 4 years old, before we even knew each other. We just wound up in the same picture. And now we're married."
She said Michael would be celebrating his first Halloween both in Katonah and Scarsdale, and with two different costumes.
"In Katonah he's going to be Batman, and we're decorating the stroller like a little Batmobile," she said. "Then we're going to take him trick-or-treating in Scarsdale as a little dragon."
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