The Zambito family’s latest member — a 502-pound squash — is getting gourds of attention from passersby, plopped prettily as it is for trick-or-treaters and muses of wonder to marvel over outside their Kensington home at 416 McDonald Ave., off Church Avenue.
The orange beauty, lovingly cultivated by patriarch John at his farm in upstate Chenango County before being transported to Brooklyn in a truck and hauled out by seven people, even boasts a moniker as mighty as its glorious girth — the aptly-named Atlantic Giant.
“It gained 12 pounds a day,” bragged matriarch Dawn, who was squashed for sidewalk space by the massive crowd-pleaser — which weighs more than two full-grown male orangutans — when the family debuted it over the weekend as part of its Halloween display.
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It’s so gigantic that people are questioning its authenticity.
“We have a sign above it saying that it’s real and to please not bang it,” said Dawn.
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Anybody have a picture?