Spooky play is successful afloat effect and coming to its melodramatic conclusion. After spending excessively overmuch clip and wealth connected a costume (Raygun dressed arsenic Beetlejuice? The Guy From “The Bear” wearing a Travis Kelce jersey?), you’re going to privation to amusement disconnected that creativity, but where?
Ranging from escaped to not-so-cheap, here’s our usher to get the astir retired of your Halloween successful the Big (Candy) Apple with oregon without an Instagram-ready costume.
Village Halloween Parade (Oct. 31 7 p.m.)
The large one. The Halloween lawsuit successful the city. The yearly pageant of the macabre volition showcase immoderate of the champion costumes successful the metropolis and connection immoderate premiere radical watching whether you’re gawking oregon marching on with the different ghouls, goblins and radical wearing feline ears (this year’s taxable is “Meow”).
The parade starts astatine Canal St. and Sixth Ave. and heads northbound to 15th St. It’ll besides beryllium livestreamed/televised connected NY1 from 8 – 9:30 p.m.
Village Costume Ball (Oct. 31)
Theater for the New City‘s yearly lawsuit volition instrumentality spot outdoors from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 astatine East Tenth Street betwixt First and Second Avenues with peculiar performances and a costume contention for kids. After 8, the enactment continues wrong astatine 155 First Ave. for a $20 entry. Attendees tin dine astatine a pop-up edifice called The Witch’s Cauldron, ballroom creation to Art Lillard’s Heavenly Swing Band and Mister Pablo and bask an aerial creation performance by Constellation Moving Company.
Haunted Houses (Open Now)
What amended mode to get the humor pumping past having a alien popular retired astatine you wielding a chain-less chainsaw portion wearing immoderate genuinely gnarly zombie makeup? The metropolis has nary shortage of haunted houses wherever a fewer twelve bucks tin springiness you a bushel of scares earlier you caput disconnected to your adjacent spooky adventure.
Rockefeller Center — 630 5th Ave. (Midtown)
A haunted location astatine Rockefeller Center inspired by the funny-man’s worst dreams “with sinister characters and scares astir each corner.”
359 Broadway, betwixt Franklin and Leonard (Tribeca)
The factual jungle determination (which Jimmy Fallon erstwhile visited with Kevin Hart, perchance inspiring the above) “is a archetypal people haunted location attraction comprised of astir 10,000 quadrate feet of themed rooms, corridors, and a labyrinth of passageways designed to to maximize one’s fears.”
100 W 33rd St. (Midtown)
Head connected implicit to Manhattan Mall and “battle done 5 aggravated challenges inspired by the show.” When and if you marque it retired alive, you tin prime up unsocial merchandise, meal and cocktails astatine the space’s “Korean-inspired Night Market.”
Vacations BK, 48 Cypress Ave, Brooklyn (East Williamsburg)
This mashup of a haunted location and an flight country offers “true fearfulness arsenic you effort to flight this fun, immersive haunted attraction with your friends and family!”
Ticket prices alteration and could merchantability out, truthful enactment fast.
Parties, parties, parties
Looking to creation the scaries away? Why not cheque retired immoderate of these extravagant soirees wherever summons prices alteration wildly.
Friday Night Vibes Halloween Costume Party astatine Time Out Market
55 Water St., Brooklyn (DUMBO)
The play enactment astatine the nutrient hall/event space’s 5th level starts astatine 7 p.m. The bars and nutrient stalls volition beryllium unfastened truthful you tin portion oregon snack portion catching your enactment and peeping the presumption of the East River, the NYC skyline and the Bridges Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Brooklyn Horror Story astatine 3 Dollar Bill (Oct. 31)
260 Meserole St., Brooklyn (Bushwick)
The Bushwick enactment spot is hosting “a queer Halloween rave with resistance queens” based connected the “American Horror Story” franchise.
Pumpkins and worldly for the full family
Bronx Zoo Pumpkin Nights and Boo At The Zoo
2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx
If looking astatine thousands of animal-themed jack-o’-lanterns connected a half-mile way is much your speed, the zoo is offering conscionable that this weekend. There’s besides pumpkin-carving, games, “Wildlife Theater” and plentifulness of different fun.
If being astatine the zoo aft acheronian gives you the willies, the “daytime family-friendly Halloween tradition” volition person look painting, a maze, a creation enactment and a “Creepy Crawly Mystery Wall.”
Tickets required for both.
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas airy trail
2900 Southern Boulevard
Still successful the Bronx? The New York Botanical Garden is showcasing airy installations with interactive video projections and sculptures of characters from the classical Disney film.
Van Cortlandt Manor (Westchester) and Old Bethpage Village Restoration (Long Island)
Take a commuter bid successful 1 of 2 cardinal directions and bask thousands of intricately carved pumpkins “in elaborate displays that airy up the nighttime astatine 2 historical locations successful New York” and “create a magical, family-friendly acquisition for each ages.”
Central Park Pumpkin Flotilla (Oct. 30)
Fifth Ave and E. 108th Street (Harlem)
Head connected implicit to Harlem Meer astir 4 p.m. for a parade of floating pumpkins, a magic show, communicative time, arts and crafts. Floats and candles volition beryllium provided.
Tricks and Treats astatine Bryant Park (Oct. 31)
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Another family-friendly lawsuit astatine a metropolis park, with sweets, look painting, magic and Triad Brass Band providing tunes during the costume parade.
73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens (Floral Park/Glen Oaks)
It wouldn’t beryllium Halloween without a maize maze and this is the lone 1 successful the metropolis . This year’s maze astatine the Queens County Farm Museum is shaped similar a butterfly. Visitors volition find clues and lick puzzles to conquer the “3-acre surviving labyrinth.” Online tickets required.
“Wicked”-themed beverage enactment astatine The Plaza Hotel
768 5th Ave. disconnected Central Park South (Midtown)
While you can’t needfully defying gravity, you could defy seasonal expectations and bask day beverage work with a twist based connected the fashionable philharmonic (and upcoming movie adaptation).
Times vary. Check retired a afloat database of events astatine metropolis parks here.
Look astatine decorations!
Taking a stroll is ne'er a atrocious thought successful our just metropolis — especially with adjacent week’s promising forecast. So wherefore not dawdle portion seeing a gigantic paper-mache spider, comically ample skeleton oregon a scarecrow dressed arsenic a mummy.
Don’t cognize wherever to go? Think stoops and porches.
The Upper West Side is ever a bully stake for originative tableaus.
Dyker Heights usually pulls retired each the stops erstwhile it comes to vacation decorating and Halloween is nary different. No clip to caput to southbound Brooklyn? Check retired immoderate of this year’s champion houses here.
Spooky stuff, successful spooky locations
Sometimes a determination unsocial tin creep you out, but immoderate of the city’s apical haunting haunts person plentifulness of events lined up implicit the coming days.
Brooklyn’s historical Greenwood Cemetery (25 St. and 5th Ave.) is putting a Halloween rotation connected its fashionable After Hours event connected Saturday and Sunday. There’s besides The Spirited Stroll connected Sunday morning, a walking circuit “filled with intriguing stories of murder, mystery, unearthly spirits, and captivating oddities.”
The hilly burial crushed volition besides beryllium portion of TalkDeath’s 2024 Halloween Cemetery Scavenger Hunt connected Sunday afternoon.
After those events, you tin caput to Greg’s Great Pumpkin Patch astatine Greenwood Park Beer Garden and prime up a last-minute gourd. It promises thousands of gourds, autumn fall and “everything from hay to z.”
Greenwich Village Haunted Tour
A walking circuit of 1 of the city’s most-haunted neighborhoods.
Try 1 of 4 downtown tours of spectral spots.
Tours successful Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Roosevelt Island that are “in-depth, meticulously researched creations.” Highlights see “Ghosts of the Seaport” and “Witches of Old York.”
Scary movies astatine the theater
What’s amended than getting a popcorn and fountain portion lone to suffer immoderate of some during a large leap scare? Plenty of aged and caller classics are playing successful theaters. Check retired the holidays offerings astatine these theaters that volition fto you positive up that fountain soda to a brew oregon cocktail.
Alamo Drafthouse is playing “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare,” “Hocus Pocus,” “Ghostbusters,” “Halloween” and “Creature From The Black Lagoon.”
See “Smile 2,” “The Ring,” “The Substance,” “The Empty Man,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer “and “Nosferatu” (with a unrecorded band!) astatine Nitehawk Park Slope and Nitehawk Williamsburg.
“Jeepers Creepers,” “Practical Magic,” “Longlegs,” “Beetlejuice,” “Death Becomes Her,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “A Nightmare connected Elm Street” and “The Exorcist” are connected astatine Rooftop Cinema Club.
“Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter,” “Hush” and much volition surface astatine IFC Center.
Check listings for each theatre determination arsenic shows whitethorn merchantability out.
If you don’t privation to beryllium frightened, per se, caput implicit to Burger Joint — the speakeasy slider spot successful the lobby of the Thompson Central Park edifice — connected Halloween for a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” astatine 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The precocious amusement volition besides person a costume contest.)
Things that dependable a small off-the-wall
Monster Ball astatine Joanne Trattoria (Oct. 30)
70 W. 68th St. (Lincoln Square)
The westside reddish condiment spot owned by Lady Gaga’s parents & cookbook writer Art Smith is throwing a Halloween-themed rotation connected its play meal and resistance show. Diners are encouraged to formal similar the mentation of Lady Gaga that speaks to them the most.
Roastferatu, The Roast of Dracula (Oct. 31)
7-9 p.m., 308 Hooper St., Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
If each of the supra is excessively scary and you’d alternatively laughter your fears away, caput to Williamsburg’s Fiction Bar and Cafe to spot 30 costume-wearing comedians marque The Count crook reddish with embarrassment.
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