Halloween in NYC 2026 unfolds across all five boroughs with haunted houses, candlelit tours, family festivals, late-night parties, and the Village Halloween Parade.

Last updated: September 10, 2026 | Originally published: September 9, 2025

Late October in New York turns ordinary streets into something closer to a stage set: candlelit stoops, costumed strangers, a parade that shuts down Sixth Avenue. This is the full 2026 guide, organized by borough and by the kind of night you are building, from the Village Parade’s chaos to a quiet candlelit tour under Old St. Patrick’s.

Halloween in Manhattan

Village Halloween Parade

📍 Location: 6th Avenue [Between King Street and West 15th] — Greenwich Village, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Village Halloween Parade | Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026 | Time: 7 PM | Tickets: Free

The Village Halloween Parade marches up Sixth Avenue for its 53rd year in 2026, and nothing else in the city feels quite like it. The procession steps off at Canal Street at 7 PM and runs north to 15th Street, with giant puppets and costumed marchers moving as one current. Admission is free—arrive in costume, and you can join the march itself; no registration required. For a full breakdown on timing and where to stand, see our Village Halloween Parade Guide.

The best viewing tends to be north of 10th Street after 6 PM, once the crowds thicken but before the parade itself arrives. It is loud, chaotic, and still one of the most purely New York nights of the year.

Candlelight Halloween Concerts

📍 Location: Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1085 Fifth Avenue — Upper East Side, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Candlelight Halloween Concerts | Dates: Thursday, October 29 & Friday, October 30, 2026

A quieter register for the same season: hundreds of candles inside Church of the Heavenly Rest, a string quartet moving from classical pieces into film scores from The Exorcist, Beetlejuice, and Halloween. It is Halloween as mood rather than costume, an hour of true stillness before or after the noise of the parade downtown.

Catacombs by Candlelight

📍 Location: The Chancery at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, 266 Mulberry Street — Nolita, Manhattan | Ticket: Fever

A lantern-lit walk through crypts beneath Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, some dating back centuries. It runs year-round on a Thursday-to-Monday schedule rather than a Halloween-specific calendar, but late October gives it an obvious edge; New York’s layered history feels closest to the surface this time of year.

Merchant’s House Museum: Candlelight Ghost Tours

📍 Location: 29 East 4th Street — NoHo, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Candlelight Ghost Tours | Date: October 16 through October 24 [Fridays & Saturdays]; October 29 & October 30 [Thursday & Friday] | Tickets: $45 general / $35 members; Super Spooky add-on $70 / $60 members

One of Manhattan’s oldest surviving homes runs 50-minute candlelit tours through parlors and bedrooms still furnished as they were in the nineteenth century, with guides weaving in the house’s own ghost stories along the way. A 90-minute Super Spooky add-on with paranormal investigator Dan Sturges, who has documented findings at the house since 2007, follows later on the same nights.

Blood Manor

📍 Location: 359 Broadway — SoHo, Manhattan | Ticket: Fever | Dates: Friday, October 2 through Saturday, November 7, 2026 | Hours: Thursday, 6 PM–12 AM; Friday–Saturday, 7 PM–12 AM

Now marking more than twenty years in the city, Blood Manor runs 10,000 square feet of immersive, actor-driven horror out of the third floor of 359 Broadway, a building with its own dark history as Mathew Brady’s Civil War-era photography studio. Expect dense corridors and no shortage of jump scares; this one is built for real thrill-seekers.

Halloween House Long Island

📍 Location: Broadway Commons, 358 North Broadway — Hicksville, Nassau County | 🌐 Website: Halloween House Long Island | Dates: Thursday, October 1–Sunday, November 1, 2026

A visual, low-fright alternative to the city’s more intense haunted houses: glow-in-the-dark tunnels, a Nightmare Before Christmas-themed room, and enough photo-ready sets to work for families and Halloween lovers who want atmosphere without gore.

BrainXcape

📍 Location: 160 Broadway, 3rd Floor — Financial District, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: BrainXcape

A horror-themed escape room built by the same set designers behind some of the city’s haunted houses and Broadway productions. Groups of two to ten get 60 minutes to solve their way out of rooms like Rikers 1932 or The Haunted Hotel—a good pick for a smaller, more puzzle-driven scare than a full walk-through haunt. Runs year-round rather than a Halloween-only calendar.

Arlo After Dark: Halloween at Arlo Williamsburg

📍 Location: Arlo Williamsburg, 96 Wythe Avenue — Williamsburg, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Arlo After Dark | Dates: Friday, October 30 & Saturday, October 31, 2026

Arlo After Dark runs a steady calendar of rooftop parties out of The Water Tower, and Halloween weekend ordinarily gets its own dedicated night.

Halloween in Brooklyn

City of Gods

📍 Location: Industry City — Sunset Park, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: City of Gods | Dates: Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24, 2026

Now in its eight year, City of Gods co-produced by House of Yes and ZERO turns Industry City’s warehouses into an immersive Halloween festival: more than ten stages of music, interactive art installations, and secret rooms built in collaboration with Burning Man camps and creative collectives. It bills itself as the largest immersive Halloween experience on the East Coast, and the scale backs that up—costumed guests routinely rival the installations themselves.

House of Yes: Halloween Weekend

📍 Location: 2 Wyckoff Avenue [entrance at 408 Jefferson Street] — Bushwick, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: House of Yes

House of Yes co-produces City of Gods directly, and Industry City runs two full weekends of Halloween programming between them each October, so the two are really one connected celebration rather than separate events. House of Yes’s own Bushwick space also runs its usual performance-art nightlife on top of that: aerialists, drag performers, and costumes elaborate enough to double as art installations. Check the current calendar for 2026’s specific lineup.

Green-Wood After Dark

📍 Location: Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street — Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Green-Wood After Dark | Dates: Saturday, October 17, 2026 [After Hours]; Thursday, October 22 & Friday, October 23, 2026 [Nightfall] | Tickets: $70 general / $56 members / $95 premium

Green-Wood runs two distinct programs through October: Nightfall, a ticketed evening of music, circus, and storytelling beneath the cemetery’s Gothic arches, curated this year with partners including Death of Classical, Rooftop Films, and Bindlestiff Family Cirkus; and After Hours, a lantern-lit walk through the grounds and catacombs on a broader run of dates. Strictly 21+, ID required.

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

📍 Location: 510 Driggs Avenue & North 9th Street — Williamsburg, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

A Victorian trolley ride through Brooklyn’s stranger history—séances gone wrong, haunted theaters, ghost stories tied to specific streets and bridges. Runs on a rolling schedule through early November most years.

Circoloco Halloween

📍 Location: Brooklyn Storehouse, 293 Assembly Road, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Circoloco NYC | Dates: Friday, October 30 & Saturday, October 31, 2026

The Ibiza-born party franchise runs a two-night Halloween takeover most years with a truly heavyweight techno and house lineup. This is less a Halloween party than a full dance-music weekend that happens to land on Halloween.

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

📍 Location: Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, 136 Metropolitan Avenue — Williamsburg, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival | Dates: Thursday, October 15–Thursday, October 22, 2026

A weeklong showcase of international horror, from slow-burns to full slashers, running across indie theaters in Williamsburg and Bushwick each October. Half the appeal is the audience—collective reactions in the dark, conversations spilling onto the sidewalk after. Check the current lineup for confirmed 2026 dates.

Elsewhere Halloween Weekend

📍 Location: 599 Johnson Avenue — Bushwick, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Elsewhere

Elsewhere turns into a multi-floor, techno-forward haunted house of its own each Halloween, DJ sets running until early morning across sprawling rooms and a rooftop. Costumes here trend conceptual rather than store-bought. Tickets sell out early. Check the current Elsewhere calendar for the confirmed 2026 lineup.

Halloween in Queens

Socrates Sculpture Park Halloween Harvest Festival

📍 Location: Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard — Long Island City, Queens | 🌐 Website: 2026 Halloween Harvest Festival | Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026 | Time: 12 PM–5 PM

A free, waterfront harvest festival with pumpkins scattered across the sculpture-lined lawn, live music, and local food vendors; a remarkably low-key, community-feeling afternoon compared to most of what else is on this list. RSVP recommended.

Queens County Farm Museum: Halloween on the Farm

📍 Location: Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway — Floral Park, Queens | 🌐 Website: Halloween on the Farm | Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026 | Time: 10 AM–5 PM

A working farm’s take on Halloween: a corn maze, hayrides, trick-or-treat stations, and a barn dance for kids, with cider and donuts for the adults tagging along.

Silent Scream: A Halloween Silent Disco

📍 Location: Bohemian Hall Beer Garden, 29-19 24th Avenue — Astoria, Queens | Ticket: Eventbrite | Dates: Saturday, October 31 – Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Time: 9 PM–1 AM | 21+

A wireless-headphone silent disco inside one of the city’s oldest beer gardens, three DJ channels running simultaneously so the crowd splits itself by genre. Costumes encouraged, craft beer plentiful.

Halloween at Queens Botanical Garden

📍 Location: Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street — Flushing, Queens | 🌐 Website: Halloween at the Garden | Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026 | Time: 12 PM–5 PM

A gentle, family-built afternoon: a trick-or-treat trail, a magic show, a beer and wine garden for the adults, and no jump scares anywhere on the property. Good option for families with younger kids who want the costumes without the frights.

Halloween in the Bronx

Bronx Zoo: Boo at the Zoo

📍 Location: Bronx Zoo, 2300 Southern Boulevard — Fordham, Bronx | 🌐 Website: Boo at the Zoo | Dates: Saturdays & Sundays, September 26–November 1, 2026, plus Monday, October 12

Boo at the Zoo returns for its 2026 run with a costume parade, stilt walkers, giant pumpkin sculptures, and an expanded candy trail, included with regular zoo admission [advance reservation still required, and members get in free]. A separate evening event, Pumpkin Nights, adds a half-mile illuminated jack-o’-lantern trail with more than 5,000 carved pumpkins.

Between the daytime festival and the nighttime pumpkin trail, this is close to a full day’s outing if you make time for both.

Halloween in Staten Island

Historic Richmond Town: Village Ghost Tours

📍 Location: Historic Richmond Town, 441 Clarke Avenue — Richmondtown, Staten Island | 🌐 Website: Village Ghost Tours | Dates: Fridays & Saturdays, September 12–October 31, 2026 | Time: 7 PM & 8:30 PM

New York’s oldest surviving village runs candlelit ghost tours through its preserved colonial homes on fall weekends, with interpreters weaving Staten Island’s own haunted history into the walk. Less about fright, more about atmosphere; the kind of chill that comes from distinctly old buildings rather than actors in costume.

Staten Island Zoo: Spooktacular

📍 Location: Staten Island Zoo, 614 Broadway — West Brighton, Staten Island | 🌐 Website: Staten Island Zoo | Dates: Saturday, October 17 & Sunday, October 18, 2026 | Time: 2:30 PM–8 PM

A gentle, family-built Halloween weekend: trick-or-treat stations, costumed characters, and animal encounters woven through the zoo’s own seasonal décor. Built for younger kids specifically, the scares stay sweet and brief throughout.

Dressing the Part, Drinking the Spell

Costume shopping in New York has real depth if you know where to look. Beacon’s Closet and 10 ft Single both stock heavily for the season, velvet, lace, structured pieces worth building a whole look around rather than a single-night costume.

For a drink to match: Maison Premiere in Williamsburg pours absinthe by candlelight, Bar Goto Niban in Park Slope runs Japanese-inspired riffs on the old-fashioned, and Loreley Beer Garden on the Lower East Side taps whole pumpkin kegs through Halloween weekend.

Dining in Disguise: Restaurants That Transform for Halloween

BeetleHouse NYC

📍 Location: 308 East 6th Street — East Village, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: BeetleHouse NYC | Phone: [646] 510-4786 | Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 4 PM–12 AM; Sunday, 4 PM–11 PM

A Tim Burton-inspired restaurant where every night already looks like Halloween: eerie props, portraits that seem to track you across the room, black-dyed burgers, and cocktails finished with dry ice. Confirmed open and operating in 2026. Reservations recommended year-round, essential in October.

Lillie’s Victorian Establishment

📍 Location: 249 West 49th Street, Times Square, and 13 East 17th Street, Union Square, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Lillie’s Victorian Establishment

Already dense with Victorian décor year-round, both Lillie’s locations go further for Halloween: cobwebs, skeletons, and jack-o’-lanterns layered over the existing chandeliers and oil paintings until the whole room reads as a haunted manor dressed for a party. Both locations confirmed open in 2026.

Oscar Wilde

📍 Location: 45 West 27th Street — NoMad, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Oscar Wilde | Phone: [212] 213-3066

A maximalist Victorian bar and restaurant from the same owners as Lillie’s, built around a 118-foot bar and a Prohibition-era backstory, that leans further into its own aesthetic for October: candlelit nooks, costumed bartenders, and displays elaborate enough that regulars build their whole night around returning each year. Confirmed open in 2026.

Halloween in New York

From the Village Parade’s controlled chaos to a quiet candlelit tour under a Nolita cathedral, the range across five boroughs is the actual point. Pick the version of the night that matches your mood, book ahead where it matters, and layer up—late October in New York rarely stays warm past sunset.