For Frederic Sandy and his family, Halloween is a weeks-long affair.

"Halloween always begins on the first day of fall,” Sandy said. That is a must. There is just too much Halloween to go around."

Sandy's Forest Hills home is transformed. It’s decked out with 24 large skeletons, 12 life-size robotic puppets and 8,000 light bulbs.

"It's always the change of the the season, the colors, the characters that were out,” Sandy said.

It started off significantly smaller. Sandy bought the house in 2007 and stuck a bag of leaves in the shape of a jack-o-lantern outside.

"The first year was so barren,” he said, reflecting on his early Halloween decorations.

He started adding lights five years later. And then came the animatronics.

"You take a step back and take a look at everything that's going on with our house, we say, 'Wow. Look what we've done,'” Sandy said. “But then we always want to do more."

And more they do.

Sandy and his family give out Halloween candy all month. Each year, they try to collect 100 pumpkins from the community to display among the decorations. Sandy carves them himself if they don't come already decorated.

"It gets my little artistic expression out there,” Sandy said. “I'm no Picasso but I love doing it."

He says the joy his decorations bring the neighborhood makes the weeks of work worth it.

"I'm still a kid at heart so it's good to see kids having fun,” Sandy said. “You know, we're all tied down with so much in our lives, even the kids, so just to escape from reality.”

For bringing scares and smiles to his neighborhood, Frederic Sandy is our New Yorker of the Week.