Alexandra Summa, her eyes wide, her mouth open, stared at the 1,502-pound pumpkin in disbelief.
"Is it real?" the 8-year-old asked her mother, Adrian Summa, as they stood in Grand Central Terminal on Sunday afternoon.
It was. In fact, the pumpkin is the world's heaviest, according to organizers of Halloweekend, a public event at the midtown Manhattan transit hub, where the pumpkin reigned over 1,500 other much smaller pumpkins.
The smaller pumpkins were sold to the public for $5 or $10 each, with proceeds going to the Food Bank For New York City, which feeds the hungry, said Karen Weber, a spokeswoman for Grand Central Terminal.
Grand Central, which brought the pumpkins in for the event, bought the big pumpkin from a Rhode Island man for an amount Weber declined to share. The pumpkin was to be donated to the Ulster County Food Bank after the Halloweekend event, she said.
Alexandra's question — "Is it real?" — seemed to be on everyone's mind.
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