Halloween in NYC
Halloween Events
Saturdays & Sundays October 3 to Sunday October
31 2009 11:00A to 4:00P
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm
Historic Richmond Town | 441 Clark Avenue
| Staten Island
Admission $5 per person / $16 per family
of 4
Information Historic
Richmond Town | 718-351-1611
Yep, they do grow pumpkins in New York City
and you can enjoy a day in the pumpkin patch along with everything
else this "living history village" has to offer. Also open
Columbus Day 11:00A to 4:00P
Sunday October 3 to Sunday October
31 2009 11:00A to 4:00P
Pick Your Own Pumpkin
Queen's County Farm Museum | 73-50
Little Neck Parkway | Queens
Price is based on size of pumpkin (most
are cantalope-sized)
Information Queens
County Farm Museum | 718-347-FARM
More pumpkin picking in the City
and you can go out to this working farm on a Saturday or Sunday to
pick your own. Wandering the pumpkin patch is free, the price to
take your prize home is according to weight
Saturday October 10 2009 12:00N to 5:00P
Pumpkin Festival
Willowbrook Park | Staten Island
Admission Free | Pumpkins and some
activities additional charge
Information Staten
Island Green Belt Conservancy | 718-667-2165
Rain date Sunday October 11th
Pumpkins, puppet shows, sand art, holiday games, crafts and activities
Saturdays & Sundays from October 10
to November 1 2009 10:00A to 5:30P
Boo at the Zoo
Bronx Zoo | Bronx River Parkway at
Fordham Road | The Bronx
Admission $11 to $27 | Extra charges for
some activities
Note Kids who wear animal-themed costumes
get free admission (when accompanied by full admission paying adult)
Information The
Bronx Zoo | 718-367-1010
Magic shows, pumpkin carving, puppet theater, hayrides,
live musical entertainment, plus all the creepy, crawly
creatures that you love to hate
Saturdays & Sundays from October 10
to November 1 2009 12:00N to 4:00P
Haunted Sea-fari Perils of the Sea
New York Aquarium | Surf Avenue & W
8th Street | Brooklyn
Admission $6 to $17
Information New
York Aquarium | 718-265-FISH
A haunted marine land populated by creatures
of the deep, plus, during the weekends of the 24th & 25th and the
31st & 1st, there will be story-telling, pumpkin carving, a DJ, mask
making and treats
Thursday October 15 2009 6:30P
to 8:00P
Pumpkin Carving for Adults
Dana Discovery Center | Central Park at
110th Street & 5th Avenue | Manhattan
Admission Free
Information
Central
Park Conservancy
Part of the Harlem Meer Social Hour series,
Suzanne Beason instructs adults on how to, well, carve and decorate
pumpkins
Saturday October 17 2009 11:00A
to 2:00P
Halloween Harvest Festival
Socrates Sculpture Park | 3134 Vernon
Blvd at Broadway | Long Island City
Admission Free
Information Socrates
Sculpture Park | 718-956-1819
Costume, mask and headdress making,
storytelling, pumpkin decorating, face painting, live music, a Red
Door Theatre Company performance and the annual Canine Costume
Contest
Saturday October 17 2009 11:00A
to 4:00P
Halloween Harvest Fair
Conference House Park | Staten Island
Admission Free | Some activities
additional
Information
NYC Parks
Crafts, games, activities, costume parades
and more
Saturday October 17 2009 12:00N
to 2:00P
Fall Harvest Festival
Highland Park | Jamaica Avenue & Elton
Street | Ridgewood
Admission Free
Information Socrates
Sculpture Park | 718-956-1819
Costume, mask and headdress making,
storytelling, pumpkin decorating, face painting, live music, a Red
Door Theatre Company performance and the annual Canine Costume
Contest
Saturday October 17 2009 1:00P
to 4:00P
Marine Park Haunted Halloween Walk
Marine Park | at Flatbush, Gerritsen
& Fillmore Avenues | Brooklyn
Admission Free
Rain date Sunday October 18th
Information
NYC Parks |
Marine
Park Civic Association
A haunted walk through through, on this day,
an eerie Brooklyn park
Sunday October 18 2009 12:00N to
4:00P
Halloween Harvest in Old Brooklyn
Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum | Ralph Avenue &
Clarendon Road | Brooklyn
Admission Free
Information
Wyckoff
House & Association
A Halloween celebration in the style of Old
Brooklyn
Sunday October 18 2009 1:00P to
3:00P
Times Square Dog Day Masquerade
Times Square | Broadway between 43rd &
44th Streets
Admission Free
Information
Times Square NYC
Register your pooch and bring out your
creative side so he or she can stroll along the catwalk and wow all
the other competitors. The afternoon includes the annual Animal
Haven Adopt-A-Pet
Sunday October 18 2009 12:00N to
5:00P
Halloween Festival & Canine Costume Contest
Narrows Botanical Gardens | Shore Road
between Bay Ridge Avenue & 72nd Street | Brooklyn
Admission Free
Information Narrows
Botanical Gardens
Arts and crafts, Greenmarket folks, doggies
in costume
Friday October 23 2009 2:30P
to 4:30P
Pumpkin Carving for Families
Dana Discovery Center | Central Park at
110th Street & 5th Avenue | Manhattan
Admission Free
Information
Central
Park Conservancy
Hey, all you kids 6 and up (with the
obligatory accompanying adult), here's your chance to get ready for
the great Pumpkin Sail on Sunday (see below)
Friday October 23, Saturday October 24,
Thursday October
29 & Friday October 30 2009 6:00P
to 10:00P
Candlelight Ghost Tours of "Manhattan's Most
Haunted House"
Merchants House Museum | 29 E 4th Street
| Manhattan
Admission $25 | Reservations required
Information
Merchants
House Museum | 212-777-1089
It really isn't a coincidence that this tour
is being conducted at the same time a exhibit entitled "Death &
Mourning in Mid-19th Century Home." Nor is it a coincidence that the
aforementioned exhibit is being mounted during Halloween month. A
lot of weird happenings have been reported at Merchants House over
the years and here is where you get to hear all about them by the
dimming light of flickering candles
Saturday October 24 2009 10:00A
to 1:00P
Harvest Festival
Bartow-Pell mansion Museum | 895 Shore
Road | Pelham Bay Park | The Bronx
Information
NYC Parks
Spooky entertainment and Halloween treats.
Is there any other way to spend a holiday afternoon?
Saturday October 24 2009 10:00A
to 1:00P
Halloween Festival
Ft Totten Park | Cross Island Parkway &
Totten Road | Queens
Admission Free
Information
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
All the usual spooky family fun with arts,
crafts, goodies, a costume contest and more
Saturday October 24 2009 12:00N
to 4:00P
An Afternoon of Ghouls
King Manor Museum | Jamaica Avenue
between 150th & 153rd Streets | Jamaica
Admission Free
Information
King Manor
Museum
Costumes, scary stories, arts and crafts --
promised with a historic twist! Saturday October 24 2009
12:00N to 5:00P
Annual Pumpkin Festival
Central Park | enter at 72nd Street |
Manhattan
Admission Free
Information
NYC Parks
A haunted house, pumpkin carving and
decorating, costumed characters, face painting, entertainment. All
this and you even get to bring home a pumpkin! Saturday October 24, Sunday October
25 & Saturday October 31 2009 4:00P
to 7:00P
Halloween Haunted House
Queen's County Farm Museum | 73-50
Little Neck Parkway | Queens
Admission $4
Information Queens
County Farm Museum | 718-347-FARM
A creepy haunted house plus other
traditional Halloween and fall activities, including a hayride for
just two bucks more
Sunday October
25 2009 10:00A
& 6:00P
Halloween Hurrah
New York Botanical Garden | 200th Street
& Kazimiroff Boulevard | The Bronx
Admission $1 to $6 grounds admission | $8
to $20 combination ticket
Information New
York Botanical Garden | 718-817-8700
Halloween fun all around the grounds. Make a
mask, join in a parade and decorate some pumpkins
Sunday October 25 2009 11:00A
to 4:00P
Children's Fall Festival
Queen's County Farm Museum | 73-50 Little
Neck Parkway | Queens
Admission $5 | Some activities have extra
charges
Information Queens
County Farm Museum | 718-347-FARM
Wear your costume, kids, as you stroll
through a haunted house (additional fee), take a spin on the holiday dance floor,
ride a pony, enjoy games and races, visit the animals in the petting zoo
and much more at NYC's only working farm
Sunday October 25 2009 12:00N
to 6:00P
Ghouls & Gourds Festival
Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Eastern Parkway
near Washington Avenue
Admission $3 to $5 | Children under 16
Free
Information Brooklyn
Botanic Garden | 718-623-7200
A fun-filled "wild rumpus" of an afternoon.
Music and entertainment, authors and illustrators, junk instrument making,
stilt walkers, mask making, giant puppets and more. It's all topped off with a Halloween parade
Sunday October 25 2009 3:30P
to 6:30P
Halloween Parade and Pumpkin Sail
Charles A Dana Discovery Center | Central
Park | Enter at 110th Street
Admission Free
Information Central
Park Conservancy
Carve your Jack-o-lantern beforehand and be
sure to wear your costume for the parade around the Harlem Meer. As
the sun goes down set your pumpkin a-sail in an eerily-lighted
pumpkin flotilla
Friday October 30 2009 4:00P
8:00P
Spooks at Belvedere
Belvedere Castle | Central Park | Enter
at 79th Street
Admission Free
Information Central
Park Conservancy
Start with a 19th-century Gothic castle,
trick it out with some ghosts, goblins and other creepies and you
have one of the best haunted houses this side of the Hudson
Friday October 30 2009 6:30P to
8:30P
Thriller at the Battery
Ft Totten Park | Cross Island Parkway &
Totten Road | Queens
Admission Free
Information
NYC Parks | 718-352-1769
A tour of this historic 19th-century harbor
fort. Haunted? There's only one way to find out
Friday October 30 2009 7:00P
& 10:00P
Halloween Extravaganza & Procession of
Ghouls
Cathedral
of St John the Divine | 112th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
Admission $20
Information St
John the Divine | 212-316-7540
Enjoy a special screening of the silent film
classic Nosferatu followed by the Halloween
Extravaganza & Procession of Ghouls as Ralph Lee brings his
giant puppets uptown for a procession through the Cathedral
Friday October 30 & Saturday October
31 2000 10:00A to 5:30P
Boo at the Zoo
Central Park Zoo | 64th Street at 5th
Avenue | Manhattan
Admission $7 to $10
Information Central
Park Zoo | 212-861-6030
Animal trick-or-trest, a wildlife witch
nature show, a scavenger hunt, face painting, creepy arts and crafts
and chats about bats
Friday October 30 & Saturday October
31 2000 10:00A to 5:30P
Boo at the Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo | Prospect Park |
Brooklyn
Admission $4 to $7
Information Prospect
Park Zoo | 718-399-7339
A haunted barn, very hungry animals and all
the creepy stuff that makes it such a great day
Friday October 30 & Saturday October
31 2000 10:00A to 5:30P
Boo at the Zoo
Queens Zoo | Flushing Meadows Corona Park
| Queens
Admission $4 to $7
Information Queens
Zoo | 718-271-1500
Trick or treat both for costumed kids and
festive animals (pumas and bears) in their haunted habitats, face
painting, pumpkin design (limited)
Saturday October 31 2009 12:00N
to 1:00P
The Great PUPkin Costume Contest
Ft Greene Park | Ft Greene | Brooklyn
Information Ft
Greene Pups | 718-965-8898
Bring your costumed pup to help raise funds
for the work of the Ft Greene PUPS
Saturday October 31 2009 12:00N
to 3:00P
Halloween Haunted Walk and
Carnival
Prospect Park | at Nethermead Hill &
Lookout Hill | Brooklyn
Admission Free
Information Prospect
Park Alliance | 718-965-6975
The annual Halloween walk and carnival with
activities to keep all kids entranced. Also Saturday (and Sunday),
check out the creepy crawlies at the park's Audubon Center and the
carousel all decked out for the holiday ($1.50)
Saturday October 31 2009 12:00N
to 5:00P
Family Friendly Ghost Tours to Make Your
Halloween a Scream
Merchants House Museum | 29 E 4th Street
| Manhattan
Admission $10
Information
Merchants
House Museum
Enjoy spooky 30-minute tours of "Manhattan's
most haunted house" then enjoy cider, goodies and fortune telling
Saturday October 3 1 2009 1:00P
Halloween in Greenwood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery | 25th Street at 5th
Avenue | Brooklyn
Fee $12 to $15
Information Big
Onion Walking Tours | 212-439-1090
Visit notable gravesites in Brooklyn's
Victorian-era 'City of the Dead,' including those of Louis Comfort
Tiffany, Samuel F B Morse, Horace Greeley and DeWitt Clinton (the
cemetery's developers bargained with Clinton's wife to move his
grave to the then underused site, giving it the prominence to
attract other notables)
Saturday October 31 2009 1:00P
Halloween at Green-Wood Walking Tour Part I
Green-Wood Cemetery | 5th Avenue &
25th Street entrance | Brooklyn
Fee $20
Information
Green-Wood Cemetery Tours & Events
A walking tour of this hauntingly beautiful
Victorian-era cemetery with tales of "murder, mayhem, spirits
and ghosts"
Saturday October 31 2009 2:00P
Halloween Fun Run
Van Cortlandt Park | Broadway & 241st
Street | The Bronx
Admission Free
Information
NYC Parks
For kids 2 to 10, costumed or not, as long
as you run, skip, waddle, leap or hop
Saturday October 31 2009 6:00P
Halloween Hike
Forest Park | Myrtle Avenue & Union
Turnpike | Queens
Admission Free
Information
NYC Parks
Things look different, sound different.
What's that up in the tree? Behind the bush?
Saturday October 31 2009 6:00P to 10:00P
Haunted Hill
Inwood Hill Nature Center | W 218th
Street & Indian Road | Manhattan
Admission Free
Information
NYC Parks
Is there anyplace in Manhattan that is not
haunted? Guess not on this eve, when you find more than the nature
center's usual gaggle of creepy crawlies
Saturday October 31 2004 7:00P
6th Avenue from Spring Street to 22nd
Street
Extravagant, elaborate, eccentric and
sometimes elegant. The big-bash must-see in NYC this year features
the theme 'Terra Incognita,' an invitation to explore and discover
Saturday October 31 2009 7:00P
& 9:00P
Spine Tingling & True: Ghost Stories of the
Merchant’s House Museum
Merchants House Museum | 29 E 4th Street
| Manhattan
Admission $25
Information
Merchants
House Museum
The parlor is arranged for a funeral as
storyteller Anthony Bellov recounts tales of creepy goings-on and
reads from 19th-century thrillers
Saturday October 31 & Sunday
November 1 2009 1:00P
Macabre Greenwich Village
Washington Square Arch | 8th Street at
5th Avenue
Fee $12 to $15
Information Joyce
Gold History Tours | 212- 242-5762
Enjoy a walking tour of "ghosts,
graveyards, hanging trees and murders" with NYC historian,
author and lecturer Joyce Gold
Sunday November 1 2009 1:00P
Halloween at Green-Wood Walking Tour Part II
Green-Wood Cemetery | 5th Avenue &
25th Street entrance | Brooklyn
Fee $20
Information
Green-Wood Cemetery Tours & Events
A walking tour of this hauntingly beautiful
Victorian-era cemetery with tales of "murder, mayhem, spirits
and ghosts"
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