GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Thousands of New Yorkers in costumes are expected to attend the 52nd annual Village Halloween Parade on Friday.

The parade transforms Sixth Avenue into the city's biggest block party as goblins, ghouls and zombies take over.

Part of the monster celebration includes 100 New Yorkers dancing their way up the parade route to Michael Jackson's iconic "Thriller."

It all started close to 20 years ago as a grassroots group with a speaker in the back of a punch buggy, but when Jackson died in 2009, it exploded in popularity.

That's when Erin Hamilton got involved with Thriller NYC and decided to formalize the performance, making it bigger and better.

"It's this cool thing in New York where you can bring 100 New Yorkers who maybe would have walked past

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