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Photos: 126 Amazing Halloween Costumes On The Subway
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Published Nov 1, 2013
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Whether you went to the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, a house party, or a bar, you probably had to take the subway to get there yesterday. So we sent photographer Sai Mokhtari down into the tunnels to capture all the kooky costumes New Yorkers donned for Halloween. Click through the photos above to see Breaking Bad references, living emoticons, Banksy tributes, Wes Anderson characters, Wolverine, Miss Piggy, Wayne and Garth, Wilfred, superheroes, ninjas, clowns, lions, pandas, and terrifying zipper-faces.
Oh, and the R Train went down 7th Avenue in Brooklyn for one night only as well:
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