Oct. 17, 2024 By Czarinna Andres The Queens Night Market is set to wrap up its 2024 season with a Halloween-themed finale on Saturday, Oct. 26. The event at Flushing Meadows Corona Park will feature trick-or-treating, family-friendly entertainment, live performances and its highly anticipated annual costume contests. This year, the excitement is elevated with…
Oct. 16, 2024 By Shane O’Brien The Maspeth Lions Club will host its annual Halloween Ragamuffin Parade along Grand Avenue on Oct. 31, giving hundreds of children in the neighborhood the chance to show off their best Halloween costumes. Ellen Marchese, president of the Maspeth Lions Club, said the organization expects around 200 local…
Oct. 11, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Hunters Point Parks Conservancy (HPPC) will host a Halloween Festival the weekend before the actual holiday, featuring a Halloween March and a special outdoor screening of “The Addams Family.” HPPC has teamed up with Long Island City Partnership, PS/IS 78Q PTA and a number of local businesses to host… Read more »
Oct. 9, 2024 By Athena Dawson Head to the Queens Botanical Garden this October to celebrate the spooky season. Located at 43-50 Main St., Flushing, the garden will celebrate fall with its annual Pumpkin Patch and Halloween at the Garden celebration. The Pumpkin Patch will be open on Saturdays and Sundays on Oct. 12,…
Oct. 2, 2024 by Shane O’Brien Culture Lab LIC is preparing for a bumper weekend of events, including the venue’s first-ever Halal Festival and the launch of a new horror-themed play. Culture Lab, located at 5-25 46th Ave., will host its first annual NYC Halal Festival from 12 noon until 8 p.m.. on Saturday, Oct…. Read more »
Nov. 1, 2023 By Anthony Medina The annual Myrtle Avenue Halloween Day Parade brought together hundreds of costumed children for a ‘spook-tacular’ night in Glendale on Tuesday, Oct. 31. The Myrtle Avenue Halloween Parade continues to run every year thanks to the people who started and maintain the tradition, the Glendale Kiwanis Club. In being trusted with capturing and welcoming all to the community in the spirit of Halloween for well over 50 years, this year’s parade saw many familiar and new faces, especially those members from the East Coast Car Association, who always decorate their cars in thrilling themes….
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Oct. 31, 2023 By Iryna Shkurhan Not long after school was dismissed, the Halloween festivities came to Bell Boulevard in Bayside on Oct. 31. Hundreds of kids decked out in their Halloween costumes went door to door to fill up their baskets with candy. But store owners were prepared. And not long after, the large bowls they filled up with candy in preparation for trick-or-treaters were almost empty. Kids also weren’t the only ones clad in a range of fun and wholesome costumes. Adults and furry pets also brought their Halloween spirit to Bell Boulevard.
Oct. 31, 2023 By Anthony Medina The 104th Precinct‘s Haunted House returned for a second year in a row at 64-02 Catalpa Ave. in Ridgewood, on Sunday, Oct. 29. Despite the rain, the haunted house still managed to open its doors and generate a crowd of eager Halloween adventurers. This year’s haunted house, “A Haunted Carn-Evil,” embraced the theme of an evil carnival experience with scary clowns, a morbid fortune teller and a monster-like man-beast kept in a cage. The haunted house event was expanded this year to have music, games, popcorn and cotton candy made available to eventgoers at…
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Oct. 31, 2023 By Anthony Medina Council Member Robert Holden, in partnership with NYC Parks, hosted the annual Halloween festival, Trunk-or-Treat and costume parade at Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village, on Saturday, Oct. 28. Kids and parents first gathered at Juniper Valley Park on 74th Street to begin the costume parade filled with both…
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Oct. 31, 2023 By Iryna Shkurhan The Halloween celebration at Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park on Sunday, Oct., 29 gathered dozens of costume-clad families for a range of fun fall festivities. At Halloween on the Farm, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., attendees made their way across the sprawling 44-acre farm where they could get a spooky farmhouse experience at the historic Adriance Farmhouse or enjoy a wholesome photo-op among gourds at the patch. The event also featured a performance from Halloween’s Blessing Angel, presented by The Edward Morgan Ballet, for the first time on the farm. And…
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