HALLOWEEN means candy – and not just for trick-or-treating tots. A quick spin around town on our broomstick scared up some pretty sophisticated spooks at the city’s sweet shops.
We’ve rounded up the usual suspects – ghosts, bats, jack-o’-lanterns, witches – and found that this year’s ghouls have a glint of glamour.
Dylan’s Candy Bar (Third Avenue and 60th Street), the flashy new sugar shack of designer Ralph Lauren’s daughter Dylan Lauren, has a fittingly pop-arty selection of holiday treats, including sequined candy-corn boxes filled with the classic kernels and a patent-leather-look jack-o’-lantern satchel stuffed with an assortment of edible eyeballs and such.
Yorkville’s Elk Candy Co. (Second Avenue between 84th and 85th streets) offers marzipan pumpkins and sprightly foil-covered mice, while Greenwich Village favorite Li-Lac Chocolates (Christopher Street) has chocolate mummy lollipops, and an enchanting metal apple painted with smiling ghosts and witches hiding a stash of chocolate balls.
Head to Economy Candy on the Lower East Side’s Rivington Street if wax lips with fangs and werewolf Pez dispensers are more your style.
This season, even orange Tic Tacs come dressed for the occasion in friendly ghost wrappers, and marshmallow Peeps assume a ghostly form, at supermarkets.
One of these treats has got to be the perfect gobble for your favorite goblin.



