Exclusive | New Yorkers recreate the iconic NYC photo Lunch atop a Skyscraper for Village Halloween Parade costume

They went to great heights for this one.Among the over-the-top creative costumes at the Village Halloween Parade this year will be a nod to old New York — with a group ensemble based on the famed photograph “Lunch atop a Skyscraper.”Bronx native Christina Simon Ciurdar and her husband, Ben, spared no detail in recreating the 1932 black-and-white shot of ironworkers eating lunch on a beam 850 feet above street level during the construction of Rockefeller Center.“We’re going to have a newspaper, a lunch box, hold a sandwich, pieces that are similar to the actual photo.And it’s also nice too because the lunchbox doubles as my purse,” Ciurdar, 39, told The Post.“For the outfit part, I made sure that everybody stayed in the color palette of black, white and gray.

So we went to TJ Maxx and just got the largest pairs of pants we could find.”Five people will make up the costume, including another couple and the woman’s sister.Ciurdar estimates it cost just under $100 per person to make.She used a foam board to create the backdrop of the cityscape, which they will all be standing behind, and another board to make the sky, which sits behind their upper bodies.The pants, which are filled with polyfill, are tied to each person’s waist and dangle from the foam beam to give the appearance they are sitting.“There is wire running through the leg to add a bend and keep the shoes on,” Ciurdar explained.There will also be a string of Christmas lights under the beam, “to make it look like the windows are twinkling,” she said.“Because once it gets really dark, it’s hard to tell what anybody is.”The Ciurdars, who now live in Tampa, Fla., arrived in Queens a week prior to the parade to prep the ambitious creation — which “took three days to construct, plus three days of planning, ordering supplies and running around the city beforehand,” she said.Ciurdar, a manager at Citi who has always been an artist, and her husband, have been attending the ...