Ezra Panzer wants to be a ghost for halloween.  His sister Zoe wants to be a witch.

They can’t trick or treat indoors this year, though.

"It’s not going to be as fun," Ezra said.

"It probably won’t be the best because we wont be able to do as many things as we normally would do, like go up to someone’s door," Zoe said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio issued guidelines Wednesday to limit the spread of the coronavirus on Halloween.

Masks must be worn outside of costume masks. Parties must be small. But perhaps the most significant rule is no door-to-door trick or treating inside of apartment buildings, which is really how most of Manhattan does Halloween.

Some apartment dwellers say that leaves little to do.

“I think we’ll just put on our costumes and stay in our house,” said one apartment dweller.

Related Management’s Denis Dwyer says his company banned door-to-door trick-or-treating in all of its rental buildings and expanded its annual fall harvest celebration. It includes socially distanced activities that are  invite and RSVP only for roughly 20 buildings.

“While it may not replace going door to door and seeing all these cool costumes, it certainly gives a family everybody something to do and takes their mind off of everything that’s going on,” Dwyer said.

Zoe and Ezra aren’t focused on the new rules or the coronavirus. They’re enjoying shopping for costumes at Halloween Adventure.

Debbie Cohen, the store manager, says with the Halloween parade cancelled, its Broadway business gone because theaters are close and now de Blasio saying indoor trick or treating can’t happen, things are tricky.

"We don’t know what Halloween’s gonna look like, even though it’s only a week and half away, because de Blasio keeps changing what we can do, so we’ll take whatever we can get,” she said.

“We’re still gonna do something because the mayor ain’t gonna stop us, you hear?" said Carlos Ramos, who says he and his family are going to an indoor party with people they always socialize with. His daughter Skylee is not liking the mayor’s indoor ban.

“That’s unfair,” she said.

Zoe has a plan for her family: trick or treat outdoors at stores planning on accepting them.

“We’ll figure it out,” she said.

Her father’s on board.

“Trying to keep it safe and outside," Evan Panzer said, "Everything’s outside these days.”

And the kids are ready.

“Vampire and plastic teeth," Ezra said.

“I like this,” Zoe said.