The financial meltdown’s epicenter was Wall Street, but the ripple effects are already being felt in all strata of professional life in New York.

Including, of all things, the annual West Village Halloween Parade. The show will still go on tomorrow, but without seven major corporate sponsors, leaving the event to run at a deficit.

Thankfully, no indication that the in-parade spectacle that will be Project Bueller is affected by the economic turmoil. It’s set to go, with its very own float and everything. I’ll be there to see it, but I won’t be dancing.

To complete the atmosphere, even Matthew Broderick has been invited, via a note taped to his door. Classy! Like I said, if Ferris himself makes it out for this, it’ll truly gain higher meaning.