In New York City, the social contract is very simple: If you're wealthy enough to own a townhouse, you owe it to plebeian passersby to cover said expensive home with elaborate, creative Halloween decorations come the month of October. And in return, the lower class masses will not (at least for the fall season) rise up against you.

This year, the holiday spirit is alive and well from the Upper East Side to the West Village. Looks like all the rich people who pretended to move to Florida during the pandemic couldn't quite take the heat (or the humidity)...

Click through for some of the spookiest, chicest, cobwebbiest homes of the season!

[Photo via @jossiejackeline]