Trick-or-Treat: Stuyvesant’s Best Halloween Costumes

Gary Rubenstein, mathematics teacher

“I’ve been here for 16 years and I’ve done 16 Halloween costumes. I once went as a college rejection letter. I went as a CitiBike two years ago, and people seemed to like that. I went as Wolf-Man Alpha, which was like Wolfram Alpha. I try to make it so there’s nobody else that has my costume, and I have a really good idea for this year. I think the craziest one was the college rejection letter because that’s scary for Stuyvesant students. My best costume though was FOIL as the mathematical concept FOIL, but I was like a tin-man. People really got a kick out of that one.”

Kelly Yip, sophomore

“I was a mast cell from the anime ‘Cells at Work’ with my friends, and we somehow coordinated with the Anime Club.”

Alexander Tsar, freshman

“Last year, I dressed up as grapes for Halloween. I had purple balloons all over my body and a headband with a green stem. The year before that, my parents and I dressed up as three pink elephants in tight thermal-wear suits with ears and trunks made out of bright pink poster paper.”

Crystal Lin, senior

“I was a clown—before it was cool.”

Areum Jo, senior

“My best Halloween costume was a criminal costume with all my friends. In reality, we only wore an orange nurse gown.”

Ziying Jian, freshman

“Once in middle school, I wore a giant french fry costume to school. Everyone really liked it, and they gave me lots of candy.”

Sofie Davis, sophomore

“When I was in sixth grade, I dressed up as a ketchup bottle. I was ketchup and my best friend was mustard—it was like a duo thing.”