‘Twas the night before Halloween, and with gourds decorating the front desk of the Hyatt Centric Midtown 5th Avenue New York, Shannon Owens, a guest service agent, handles a phone inquiry while colleague Janette Webb gives a thumbs up!

Then it happens! A sudden transformation, and Jasmine Carrasquillo becomes almost unrecognizable as a trick-or-treater.

As Halloween creeps every closer, Yesenia Fernandez, a guest service agent, left, confers with Jasmine Carrasquillo, the Hyatt Centric’s front desk supervisor.

If these friendly spiders at the Hyatt Centric could talk, they might say, “What’s bugging you, don’t you want a doughnut?”