Red Hook Harvest Festival Red Hook Community Farm Columbia Street between Sigourney & Halleck, Brooklyn
Join the Red Hook Community Farm for a celebration of urban farming, youth empowerment, community connections and a bountiful fall harvest. Enjoy food, animals, pumpkins, DJs, games and contests including a Hot Pepper Challenge. Enter at the corner of Columbia and Sigourney Streets; $5 suggested donation but no one turned away.
🎟 $5 suggested donation
¡CalabazaFest! Maria Hernandez Park Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn
Join a colorful, outdoor, cross-cultural, family-friendly, fun and free costume party celebrating Day of the Dead, Halloween, and harvest festival traditions. Bushwick community and arts organizations, come together celebrate community, creativity, diversity, and cultural expression. Enjoy music, mariachi, and dance performances, a special edition RB Farmers Market, pumpkin carving, and a creative costume contest. Presented…
Halloween on the Farm Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park
Wear your costume to the farm for all-ages festivities including roaming performances from Halloween’s Blessing Angel, a haunted DJ dance party, guided monster mash dancing, a spooky farmhouse experience, Halloween hayrides, a pumpkin patch and the The Amazing Maize Maze. Trick-or-treat at 9 candy stations located throughout the farm, plus connect with the rich agricultural history…
🎟 $20, free/ages 3 & under
Halloween at the Seaport Museum South Street Seaport Museum 12 Fulton Street,
Enjoy Halloween arts-and-crafts activities and the spooky scavenger hunt aboard the tall ship Wavertree. Don't miss the pumpkin arch photo-op.
Pumpkin Point on Governors Island Governors Island Governors Island,
NYC’s most unique pumpkin patch is just a ferry ride away, with free festive programming including arts & crafts, performances, magic shows, storytelling, trick or treating on October 29, and more. A selection of Governors Island vendors will offer delicious fall-themed food and beverages each weekend.
Hester Street Fair Halloween Weekend The Seaport Fulton & Front Street,
An outdoor market with over 60 local vendors, munchies, DJs and drinks (plus a gorgeous view) hosts costume contests with incredible prize baskets made up of donated items from our Hallo-weekend’s vendors. Create, animate and paint masking tape sculpture with Gregory Valentine. Don't miss the pumpkin arch photo-op.
Welcome to Chinatown Fall Fest Welcome to Chinatown 115 Bowery,
Enjoy traditional apple-cider-sippin', pumpkin-carvin' autumn festivities with a burst of Asian American flair. Get ready for small biz vendors, sips + treats, and another Meet Chinatown Scavenger Hunt.
Halloween at the Garden Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing
Enjoy a festive, spooky afternoon of Halloween fun. Show off costumes, walk a Trick-or-Treat Trail, make crafts, and enjoy live performances. Meet the Compost team to learn about the creepy-crawly organisms that turn food scraps into black gold and support local businesses at a vendor fair. Adults 21+ can enjoy harvest beers and ciders for…
🎟 $11/adults, $9/child
Halloween Community Party All Souls Church 1157 Lexington Avenue at E 80th Street,
Enjoy pumpkin painting, crafts, games, treats, and a blessing for pets in a church courtyard. Parade around the block at 2 pm - costumes for kids and pets encouraged.
🎟 $5/child suggested donation
Halloween Goat Party Got Your Goat Farm 59 Wheaton Rd, Washington Depot
Celebrate Halloween on our goat farm. Enter a costume contest and parade down the country road. Bob for apples with the goats, carve pumpkins and feed the innards to the herd, dress the goats in their costumes and take pictures with them and participate in a “Tricks or Treat” candy hunt. Parental supervision is required,…
🎟 $15/ages 3-18, #35/family
Pumpkin Nights The Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx
Follow a half-mile trail with 5,000 animal-themed illuminated jack o’lanterns with atmospheric sounds and colored lights. Learn about animal behavior after dark, watch as expert pumpkin carvers create amazing animal images, enjoy games and sample treats from local food trucks. All live animal exhibits are closed during these nights; come back during the day to…
🎟 $34.95/ages 13+, $24.95+/ages 3 - 12
Bryant Park’s Tricks and Treats Bryant Park 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue,
Bryant Park's annual Halloween party returns with eerie magic tricks, face painting, arts & crafts, and a costume parade. See magician Looney Louie and join a Halloween parade with Triad Brass Band. Free activities at Le Carrousel include face painting, pumpkin decorating, spider web weaving craft and a mummy wrapping craft. Pick up a free…
Dumboween Dumbo Archway 155 Water St, Brookyln
Head to Dumbo for a Halloween March to the Arch. Beginning at Washington Street, between Front and Water Streets, costumed participants parade to the Dumbo Archway, led by live music and puppets. Post-parade, enjoy family-friendly activities in the Archway from 4:30pm-7pm, including arts and crafts with Creatively WILD Art Studio. Dogs and other pets can…
Inwood Pumpkin Pageant Isham Park 1 Park Terrace East,
Bring leftover Halloween Jack-o-Lanterns to the park for a grand community display. Vote on favorite designs for the coveted Blue Ribbon. All pumpkins will be composted afterwards to keep them out of the landfills.
Hudson River Park’s Pumpkin Smash Pier 84 555 Twelfth Ave at W 44th Street,
Bring your jack-o-lantern or uncarved pumpkin to HRPK’s Pier 84 to squash, smash and smush them into compost to help keep our Park beautiful, green and growing.You’ll get 15 minutes of smashing fun and your choice of a bat, hammer or shovel to break up your gourd into the smallest pieces you can. Please bring…
LES Pumpkin Smash La Plaza Cultural Community Garden East 9th Street & Avenue C,
Pumpkins will be turned into finished compost which will then be used to rebuild soil in City parks and public green spaces. Also join a decomposer meet and greet, Earth Loom weaving, Compost 101, free snacks and drinks and giveaways.
Pumpkin Smashing & Recycling Peabody Preserve 611 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow
Hurl pumpkins onto a compost pile at Peabody Preserve Outdoor Classroom, with the hope to grow some pumpkins next year. Separate seeds and read The Rotten Pumpkin. The Sleepy Hollow Environmental Committee and the Sleepy Hollow Fire Department will be there to help.
Pumpkin Smash McGolrick Park Russell Street & Nassau Ave., Greenpoint
Bring floppy, sad pumpkins to smash and chop up for composting. Do not bring us fresh, uncarved pumpkins. All pumpkin varieties are edible - try out a new recipe or share them with a squash lover before composting the scraps. North Brooklyn Mutual Aid will be collecting winter coats. Bring clean warm coats in good…
Park Slope Panto’s Cinderella ShapeShifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place, Brookyln
Cinderella is stuck at Flatbroke House, running errands for her beastly fame-obsessed sisters. Will she ever make it to Prince Prospect’s ball, or is there time to transform into a pumpkin–er–Princess?! This buoyant comedy throws a current spin on a classic fairytale, celebrating the triumph of true friendship over influencers. Park Slope Panto’s debut production…
Cinderella the Musical Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street,
Step into the magical world of Cinderella and see if the shoe fits. Meet mice that sing and dance while getting Cinderella to the ball in a magic pumpkin – all arranged by her fairy Godmother. Presented by long-running children's theater troupe Literally Alive Family Theatre with original music. Join hands-on family workshops Sat 2…
🎟 $42-$62, free ages 1 & under on laps