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Couple recreates 'Lunch atop a Skyscraper' for Village Halloween…

The Tampa couple with Bronx roots handmade the costume with a cityscape and twinkling lights; the beam, mercifully, stays at street level.

Photo: Felix Stahlberg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN
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Photo: Felix Stahlberg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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  1. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterA couple is bringing the famous 'Lunch atop a Skyscraper' photograph to the Village Halloween Parade, with dangling legs, a cityscape and twinkling lights, all handmade!

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThey're a Tampa couple with Bronx roots, the New York Post reports, and they've walked in this parade since twenty fourteen.

  3. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterBBN team coverage is on this! We have a fake live map of Sixth Avenue, and I'm told the beam is NOT load-bearing!

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWho told you?

  5. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterNobody, Vera! That's the scary part!

  6. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThe parade runs from King Street to West Fifteenth, and a costume with legs dangling that long needs a safety plan!

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it an elevated-seating pilot with a strong lighting package, and I'm told the couple even moved out of the city and came back for it.

  8. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThey live in Tampa and they still make the trip!

  9. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterPast costumes include a five-foot UFO hovering over a head with lights, so the lights are a TRADITION!

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWatching it's free, folks. Rating: ten out of ten hard hats.

  11. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterWait, what if the legs are the only part that shows up?

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThen the beam passed inspection, Rosa. It's the one thing on Sixth Avenue that has never once moved.

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