SPOOKY SPOTS
NYC goes all out for Halloween. Celebrate with pumpkins, sweets, spiders and more not-too scary fun all over town all month long.
See our complete list of Halloween festivities (searchable by neighborhood & date) plus urban pumpkin patches, country pumpkin farms and our map of decorated brownstones.
Pop-UPs
Always Spooky
Harry Potter New York
935 BroadwayMon–Sat 9 am– 9 pm
Sun 9 am –7 pm
🎟 FREE
Find magical photo opportunities over three spacious floors while shopping for the largest collection of Harry Potter products in the world, from pocket money items to rare collectibles.
Strike a pose inside a London phone box as if transporting yourself to the Ministry of Magic or step into Hagrid’s boots. Scan Enchanted Keys around the store to bring the magic to life. Browse over 50 wands inspired by characters.
🍽 Stock up on chocolate frogs and try Butterbeer ice cream other treats in an area inspired by Honeyduke.
Harry Potter The Exhibition
50 W 34th StreetDaily 9 am–8:30 pm
🎟 $29.99-$58.50, $25-$27/kids, free/ages 2 & under
This touring exhibition celebrates the iconic moments, characters, settings, and beasts as seen in the Harry Potter film series and the Wizarding World through immersive design and technology, plus original props and costumes.
Experiences include the Hogwarts Castle Gallery, featuring an immersive multimedia experience with dementors, the use of a Marauder’s map, the whomping willow and more; Hagrid’s Hut and The Forbidden Forest with an interactive Patronus charm; a Hogwarts Houses gallery that will prompt you to select your own house complete with the iconic Sorting Hat and photo opportunities; Quidditch drills; wand battles and actual classroom galleries that will be filled with costumes, creatures and props.
Abracadabra NYC
19 W 21st StreetMon–Sat 11 am–7 pm
Sun 12 pm–7 pm
🎟 FREE
Get into the Halloween spirit year round with a huge assortment of costumes, accessories, makeup, magic, wigs, facial hair, props, masquerade masks, magic kit and much more. Step into a hoarder’s haunted house with tons of life-sized, interactive animatronics (including creepy body parts, not for the faint-hearted) and spooky surprises.
Browse creepy and cutesy get-ups or get help putting piecing together pretty much anything with the friendly staff.
Beetle House NY
308 E 6th StreetWed-Sun 4 pm-2 am
🎟 $60, $20/ages 12 & under
Celebrate Halloween year-round in a unique dining experience inspired by horror culture, magic and the artistic, literary and cinematic works of Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, and many many more. In short, a Halloween party with a Burtonesque feel, curated by Alfred Hitchcock, with a 90s goth band on stage and everyone is in weird costumes.
Be dazzled at the tables by ever-changing dining room shows featuring world-class singers, sword swallowers, human blockheads, magicians, psychics, mentalists, sideshow acts, contortionists, impersonators, and many more.
Kids are welcome in the dining area, though some of the characters and entertainers can be scary.
Brooklyn/Bronx
Beyond NYC