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Photos: Brooklyn's Best Halloween Display Is A Bloody Pumpkin Massacre
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Published Oct 24, 2017
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The hack-o-lanterns are here, folks. For the ninth year running, an incredible display of gourd gore has taken over the front lawn of a Boerum Hill home, this time featuring a couple of murderous gardeners chopping their fellow pumpkins to bits. Deploying over 35 pumpkins total, the Halloween decoration—nay, ART INSTALLATION—includes a warty screaming jack-o-pumpkin cutting up screaming baby pumpkins and a demonic groundskeeper rolling his lawnmower over a wailing victim.
Complete with clay pots, work gloves, a bag of fertilizer, and gardening tools, this is at least as good, if not better, than 2016's B666 Bus Ride to Pumpkin Hell. Also, for some spoooooooky reason, there's a Hellraiser-inspired pinhead pumpkin. Why not! You can see the the bloodied-up pumpkins for yourself on Bergen Street between Bond and Nevins.
If you spot a terrifying Halloween tableau out there, please let us know.
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Scott Heins
Scott Heins is a freelance photo and video journalist based in New York City, and a frequent contributor to Gothamist + WNYC. His work often centers around labor rights, housing, and policing. In 2018-2019 he traveled to four states while covering a wave of public school teachers strikes, with work featured in The New York Times, The Intercept, Getty Images, Splinter, and Bloomberg Photos. Scott is a dues-paying member of the National Writers Union's Freelance Solidarity Project.
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