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Bay Ridge

Start your mini-tour of this festive Brooklyn neighborhood at Hip Squeak (8119 Third Ave between 81st and 82nd Sts; 718-745-3705, hip-squeak.com) and Hip Tween (8321 Third Ave between 83rd and 84th Sts; 718-836-1965), where costumed staff will give out holiday confections. Then walk south to the Spa & Wellness Center (8804 Third Ave at 88th St; 718-921-6100, greenspany.com), which eschews traditional Halloween orange for save-the-earth green. Any kid who arrives clad in an eco-friendly costume will receive a free pass to a children’s yoga session. Along with organic bonbons, young scroungers will get a copy of the spa’s Recycling Tricks to Treat Mother Nature pamphlet. Next door, the equally serene lifestyle store and organic tea garden HÔM (8806 Third Ave at 88th St; 718-238-4466, thehomstore.com) is dispensing seeds rather than candy corn. For a more indulgent—yet still virtuous—treat, pop into Little Cupcake Bakeshop (9102 Third Ave at 91st St; 718-680-4465, littlecupcakebakeshop.com). This wind-powered bakery has store-bought candy to spare, but staffers also will be doling out house-made sugarcane ghosts. Top off your kids’ expanding treat bags—and admire the dolled-up pooches—at Posh Pet (9520 Fourth Ave between 95th and 96th Sts; 718-238-3131). Just keep sticky little fingers away from the dog biscuits.

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