A house on the corner of St. Louis and 2nd street features a graveyard with haunting skeletons among the tombstones. Photo by Carol Martinez.


Halloween is upon us, and the streets of Boyle Heights are glowing with home displays put on by residents. Classic jack-o’-lanterns, spooky ghosts, and playful clowns adorned front yards, ready to greet trick-or-treaters Thursday night.

We’ve rounded up photos of the best displays bringing the Halloween spirit to the neighborhood.

Photos by Carol Martinez, Kate Valdez, Stephanie Perez and Suri Meza.

A home on the corner of St Louis and 2nd streets features pirate skeletons scaling the walls. Photo by Kate Valdez.
A circus-themed display on the block of Winter Street and North Alma Avenue features eerie clowns and whimsical wind-up toys. Photo by Stephanie Perez.
A spirited skeleton with a pumpkin head sits besides a haystack in the front yard of a home on the block of Soto and 4th streets. Photo by Carol Martinez.
This home on the block of Whittier Boulevard and Mott Street is all dressed with a variety of life-sized skeletons. Photo by Suri Meza.
On the block of 2nd and Chicago streets, this house features a spooky display of spider webs and crawling spiders on the wall. Photo by Kate Valdez.
A life-sized Jack the Pumpkin King from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” looms over the gate of this home on the block of Soto and 4th streets. Photo by Carol Martinez.
A ghostly graveyard display on the block of 2nd and Chicago streets features tombstones and jack-o’-lanterns. Photo by Kate Valdez.

Boyle Heights Beat is a bilingual community newspaper produced by its youth "por y para la comunidad". The newspaper and its sister website serve an immigrant neighborhood in East Los Angeles of just under 100,000. Read more about our team

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