Of course it's "Spooky"

New York Post October 30, 2014
He dressed like a Greek god — and he got a perk to match.

The Halloween costumes Mayor de Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray donned during Tuesday’s Halloween party at Gracie Mansion were paid for by a Brooklyn company that donated thousands to Hizzoner’s campaign fund last year.

Broadway Stages — which city records show funneled at least $25,000 through its employees to the mayor — rented the costumes from Abracadabra, according to a de Blasio spokesperson.

The ancient Greece-themed outfits cost about $350 to rent, according to the Abracadabra Web site.

Broadway Stages, which bills itself as a “film, television and music production” facility, helped arrange for the mayor to appear on the CBS drama “The Good Wife” after he took office.

“It was a blast,” de Blasio told The Times afterward.

Stages has been generous in other ways.

Salvatore Alaimo, one of its stage managers, forked over $4,095 to the mayor just one month before the general election, city campaign-finance records revealed.

Gina Argento Ciafone, the company’s president, was even more generous, donating more than $15,000 between 2010 and 2011.

A City Hall source noted that Broadway Stages also footed the bill for costumes worn by at least 100 kids from city homeless shelters who attended the party.

“The Mayor’s Office of Special Projects secures sponsors for all events. This allows us to host public events without using taxpayer money,” the source said. “This was not a gift to the mayor, but to Friends of Special Projects, which is a fund set up to support this programming."

“Just like in previous administrations, sponsors cover the costs of events,” the City Hall source added.

When asked why the mayor and his wife didn’t pay for their own costumes, de Blasio spokeswoman Rebecca Katz said, “Hundreds of kids enjoyed a very happy Halloween at no cost to taxpayers. As a liberal the Mayor feels that someone else should pay. That is the basis of his political philosophy that has served him so well. After all it takes a village to pay for the De Blasios."

When questioned as to why the party had such a grim theme in the era of violence and school shootings spokeswoman Katz said "Look any party that the De Blasio's host has to be spooky. So get over it."