Halloween Events for Kids in NYC 2025

Top Halloween Events in NYC in 2025

Village Ghost Tours in Historic Richmondtown
Richmond, Staten Island
Fridays and Saturdays from Friday, September 19-Friday, October 31, 2025
From authentic colonial ghost stories to creepy modern-day encounters, Village Ghost Tours explore Richmond Town's historic houses by candlelight. Delve into folklore and mysteries from the past during a tour led by costumed storytellers who share unexplained and unnerving tales. Visit the website here.

Harvest Glow at the Bronx Zoo
Bronx Park, the Bronx
Select dates Thursday, September 25-Friday, October 31, 2025
The Bronx Zoo's nighttime family-friendly Halloween spectacular invites families to follow an animal-themed illuminated jack-o'-lantern trail, explore Dinosaur Safari at night, and enjoy live pumpkin carving, Wildlife Theater, games, and more. Visit the website here.

Bronx Zoo: Boo at the Zoo
Bronx Park, the Bronx
Select dates from Saturday, September 27-Monday, October 26, 2025
Trek the candy trail, explore an extinct animal graveyard, and take in pumpkin carving demos as the Bronx Zoo's annual Halloween tradition returns, bringing with it tons of family-friendly activities. New this year: a trick-or-truth maze, face painting, a creepy mystery wall, and a Halloween mashup. Costumes are welcome. Visit the website here.

New York Ascarium!
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Weekends from Saturday, October 11-Sunday, October 26, 2025
The New York Aquarium dives into Halloween with marine-themed magic shows, Halloween crafts, a larger-than-life pumpkin display, Wildlife Theater shows, games, and more. Visit the website here.

Staten Island Zoo Spooktacular
West Brighton, Staten Island
Saturday, October 18-Sunday, October 19, 2025
The Staten Island Zoo Spooktacular is a walk-through experience, complete with live music, scare zones, costumed characters, giveaways, and plenty of enchantment, spread over the zoo’s eight-acre campus. Visit the website here.

Giant Pumpkin Palooza Weekend at the New York Botanical Garden
Bronx Park, the Bronx
Thursday, October 23-Sunday, October 26, 2025
Adam Bierton returns for the pumpkin-carving season finale to carve one of the largest pumpkins in the world, sourced by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, into an organic masterpiece. Witness Bierton and his team chisel, carve, and detail a seasonal design. Final, completed design is on view during the day on Sunday, October 26. Visit the website here.

Asphalt Screams
Upper East Side – FREE
Friday, October 24, 2025
Get into the Halloween spirit at Asphalt Screams, where the community comes together for an afternoon of ghostly delights, family-friendly frights, and unforgettable memories. Visit the website here.

Halloween Extravaganza and Procession of the Ghouls at St. John the Divine
Morningside Heights
Friday, October 24-Saturday, October 25, 2025
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine's beloved annual Halloween celebration returns! Following the screening of Lon Chaney's 1926 film, The Phantom of the Opera, with live organ accompaniment, ghouls and goblins from the Mettawee River Theater Company emerge to scare and delight audiences. Visit the website here.

Pumpkin Carving Contest in Washington Market Park
Tribeca – FREE
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Washington Market Park hosts this annual free community event with trophies awarded in five pumpkin-carving categories: cutest, scariest, funniest, most realistic, and most creative. Bring your own pumpkin to enter, or just stop by with your family to enjoy the festive display! Visit the website here.

High Line Halloween: Little Park of Horrors
Chelsea – FREE
Saturday, October 25, 2025
This spooky Halloween event celebrates NYC’s fierce and resilient nature, showcasing plants and creatures—both real and imagined—that come alive on the High Line at night. Visit the website here.

Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest in Fort Greene Park
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Saturday, October 25, 2025
It's time to get your costume—and more importantly, your pup's—ready for Fort Greene Park's annual Halloween Festival and dog costume contest. Visit the website here.

Halloween on the Farm
Floral Park, Queens
Saturday, October 25-Sunday, October 26, 2025
Halloween at the Queens County Farm Museum brings a monster mash to life. Costumed kids and their grown-ups are invited for fall-themed farm fun with hayrides, kids crafts, a run through the Amazing Maize Maze, a spooky farmhouse to explore, and best of all: trick-or-treating with furry farm friends. Visit the website here.

Children's Halloween Festival at Bleecker Playground
Greenwich Village – FREE
Sunday, October 26, 2025
This annual celebration begins with a toddler-friendly costume parade around the nabe to the Bleecker Street Playground, and includes face painting, craft tables, and trick-or-treating. Visit the website here.

Halloween Harvest at Luna Park
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Select dates through September 19 - November 2, 2025
Step into a world of pumpkins, hay bales, and colorful leaves as Luna Park’s iconic rides come alive in a cozy, fall-themed atmosphere. Visit the website here.

Best NYC Halloween Events on Friday, October 31, 2025

Jackson Heights Halloween Parade
Jackson Heights, Queens – FREE
The Jackson Heights Halloween Parade—NYC’s largest children’s Halloween parade—lines up once again at 89th Street and 37th Avenue and marches down 37th Avenue to PS 69. Visit the website here.

Park Slope Halloween Parade
Park Slope, Brooklyn – FREE
The Park Slope Civic Council hosts the spookiest parade in Park Slope. Marchers line up at 7th Avenue and 14th Street and wind their way to the Old Stone House. Come early to trick-or-treat. Visit the website here.

Dumboween: Halloween March to the Arch
Dumbo, Brooklyn – FREE
Put on your most creative costume, and 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. Visit the website here.

BAMboo!
Downtown Brooklyn – FREE
BAM’s annual free community Halloween celebration happily haunts the neighborhood with family-friendly music, carnival games, arts and crafts, candy giveaways, trick-or-treat popcorn, and more. Costumes are encouraged. Visit the website here.

Hippo Playground Halloween Parade
Upper West Side – FREE
The annual Hippo Playground Halloween Parade invites costumed kids to gather at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at 89th Street and Riverside Drive and parade to Hippo Playground. Visit the website here.

Wave Hill-O-Ween
Riverdale, the Bronx
Venture through Wave Hill's iron gates (if you dare!) for an evening adventure with treats, tricks, and good old spooky fun. Grab a map to guide you on an eerie treasure trail through the gardens with “gourdgeous” photo-ops along the way. Personalize a treat bag and decorate a mini-gourd favor, then dance away the eve with family-friendly tunes in spooktacular Armor Hall. Visit the website here.

52nd Annual Village Halloween Parade
Greenwich Village – FREE
The world's most famous Halloween parade weaves through the streets of Greenwich Village once again. Hundreds of puppets, musicians, dancers, and artists, and thousands of other New Yorkers in creative costumes march in the nation’s most wildly creative public participatory event in the greatest city in the world. Visit the website here.

Destination-Worthy Halloween Events near NYC
Legoland's Brick-or-Treat Presents Monster Party
Goshen, New York
Various dates from Thursday, October 2-Sunday, November 2, 2025
The Monster Party begins the moment you step into the park with a boo-tifully decorated entry arch. Meet Lego Monster characters like Spider Lady and Wacky Witch and make your way to the treat stations around the park. Don’t forget your costumes! Visit the website here.

Trick-or-Treat Weekends at Storybook Land
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
Weekends from Saturday, October 18-Sunday, October 26, 2025
Little ones visiting Storybook Land can pick up treat bags and gather goodies from 12 stations. Then, find your way through Elmer’s Haymazin’ Maze. Visit the website here.

The Great Jack-o'-Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor
Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Select dates through Sunday, November 16, 2025
This renowned walk-through Halloween experience features more than 7,000 hand-carved, illuminated jack-o'-lanterns forming assorted impressive displays, with lighting and music enhancements. New for 2025 is a jack-o'-lantern big top adventure, a Wicked-themed, emerald-hued storybook pumpkin dreamscape, and the Headless Horseman’s Hideaway featuring spooky sips and haunting visits from the Horseman himself. Visit the website here.

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