Melrose Tunnel in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) neighbourhood got a total makeover last weekend.
It’s part of an annual community arts project spearheaded by the NDG Art Hive and the St. Raymond Community Centre to get the cement corridor ready for trick-or-treaters.
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The project has been going on for almost a decade due to the efforts of founder Melanie Stuy and her friend Yvette Salinas, who has coordinated it in recent years.
It “started with a group of friends who wanted to do Halloween crafts. I couldn’t decorate in my building,” Salinas said.
Consequently, Stuy and Salinas gathered a group of people to make the tunnel spooky for trick-or-treaters of all ages.
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This year’s theme was “spooky woods,” and much of the wall art includes ghosts, trees, rats and black cats.
The paintings were all done over the weekend, and handmade decorations from the St. Raymond Community Centre are slated to be hung from the ceiling Tuesday evening — just in time for trick-or-treaters.
The tunnel runs along Melrose Avenue, just beneath the train tracks that run parallel to de Maisonneuve Boulevard in NDG.
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It connects the St. Raymond neighbourhood, north of Saint-Jacques Street, to the northern part of the area.
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