2 Astoria Homes Have NYC's Best Halloween Displays, List Says

ASTORIA, QUEENS — For most, Halloween is celebrated on Oct. 31, but Astoria resident Vicky Poumpouridis spends all year preparing for the holiday.

Her home, located at 26-18 Ditmars Boulevard, is known for its elaborate Halloween display, which she's spent years curating, complete with animatronic demons and orange lights.

The spooky display made headlines again this year when it was included in the New York Post's roundup of the six best Halloween displays in the city; alongside Ellie Holt's home in Astoria, located at 22-16 21st Street. All told, three of the included displays are in Queens.

"It peps up the neighborhood and makes people so happy," Poumpouridis told the Post of her setup, which takes three days to install, complete with life-size horror characters.

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And, Poumpouridis doesn't only go all-out on decor, she also delivers on candy, spending as much as $1,000 on goodies for trick-or-treaters, who line up around the block to see her house, the Post reported.

“I get repeat customers every year who love to come back and see what we added on this time around. I might prank them by dressing up as Michael Myers and hide in the display," she told the site, adding that she upgraded her lighting and goblin-themed decorations this year.

Holt also aims to upgrade her display every year — she just got new lights that can be seen from blocks away — she says that her collection of supplies is on the smaller side, at the behest of her husband.

“My husband allows me only two bins to keep decorations in in the offseason, I would do even more to the display if he would allow me more storage,” Holt told the Post.

Her display, however, is not limited, complete with faux ivy and spider webs, illuminated by colored lights, all on the backdrop of massive skeletons, ghouls, and ghosts. She adds some jack-o'-lanterns to the entryway, too, to keep things "cute."

These homes aren't the only ones in Astoria that are decked out for Halloween, since spooky season is taken seriously by many neighbors — so much so that an Astoria Instagram page has a running series of the neighborhood's best decorations.

Read the full New York Post article here.