In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy we all thought that Halloween would be cancelled, but our neighborhood home-owners didn’t allow that to happen.  Pumpkins, carved and whole, in windows or on stoops lit the way along with pots of chrysanthemums and mounds of gourds decorating  houses and apartment buildings.  Witches flew from brownstone windows and bats fluttered in the almost leafless trees.  Little ones dressed in cuddly costumes and bigger ones in scary makeup went trick or treating up and down the avenues.  Halloween very definitely happened!