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Best trick-or-treating streets in Brooklyn 2026

Kids in costume trick-or-treating at a decorated Park Slope brownstone stoop

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, so trick-or-treating can start in daylight and run past dark with no school night to worry about. This is our block-by-block list of where the candy and the decorations are in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, DUMBO, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Red Hook, Bed-Stuy, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, plus every Brooklyn street on the city’s Trick-or-Streets list. Every free Halloween party and parade of the month is in our Halloween Guide 2026.

NYC DOT’s Trick-or-Streets program is back for a fifth year and runs all of October: Open Streets, plazas and other blocks go car-free for harvest and Halloween programming. DOT’s Brooklyn list has 57 Trick-or-Streets events, 40 of them on Halloween itself. Every one is below with DOT’s hours, the Halloween-night streets under their neighborhoods and the rest in date order at the end. DOT says events are subject to delay or cancellation.

Car-free on Halloween, Saturday, October 31

Streets marked “Car-free” are on DOT’s Trick-or-Streets list, with DOT’s hours; the others are the classic trick-or-treat blocks.

Brooklyn Heights

  • Joralemon Street | Furman Street to Hicks Street | Car-free 4–8pm
  • Columbia Place | State Street to Joralemon Street | Car-free noon–8pm
  • Garden Place | Joralemon Street to State Street | One of the most popular trick-or-treating blocks in Brooklyn. Candy usually starts around 4pm and lasts until dusk, or until it runs out.
  • Hicks Street | Joralemon Street to State Street | One block over, with the FDNY Engine 224 firehouse and its Halloween display.
  • Grace Court Alley | The dead-end mews off Hicks Street, known for the pumpkin display its neighbors build.

 

Cobble Hill

  • Congress Street | Court Street to Columbia Street | The route of the Cobble Hill Association’s Halloween parade, which leaves from Cobble Hill Park; the 2026 time will be in our Halloween Guide.
  • Strong Place | Kane Street to Degraw Street
  • Tompkins Place | Kane Street to Degraw Street
  • Dean and Warren Streets | and the other blocks between Court and Hoyt Streets
  • Court Street businesses

A brass band in Halloween costumes with a young trick-or-treater in Cobble Hill

Carroll Gardens

  • Clinton Street | From Pacific Street in Cobble Hill all the way into Carroll Gardens — the natural route south after the Cobble Hill parade.
  • Henry Street | Warren Street to Carroll Street
  • Scotto Funeral Home | 106 First Place, at Court Street | Known for one of the neighborhood’s big Halloween displays, with candy for trick-or-treaters.
  • President Street
  • Smith Street and Court Street businesses

Staff in costume at the Scotto Funeral Home Halloween display in Carroll Gardens

DUMBO

  • Pearl Street Plaza | Anchorage Place to Water Street | Car-free 3–10pm
  • Washington Street | Front Street to Water Street | Car-free 10am–9pm
  • Dumboween | Saturday, October 31 | More than 60 small businesses hand out candy from 3 to 6pm, while supplies last — look for the pumpkin sign in the window. The March to the Arch gathers on Washington Street between Front and Water Streets at 3pm, an hour earlier than usual because Halloween is a Saturday, and parades behind a brass band and puppets through Brooklyn Bridge Park to the Archway, where the party runs 3:30–6pm with crafts, a free photo booth, live music and candy. Dogs get their own costume contest, Howl-O-Ween, on car-free Washington Street at 2pm.

Trick-or-treaters in costume on a cobblestone street in DUMBO

Boerum Hill

  • Dean Street | Bond Street to Nevins Street | Car-free 1–10pm
  • Hoyt Street | State Street to Atlantic Avenue | Car-free 2–5pm
  • Nevins Street to Smith Street | The blocks between Atlantic Avenue and St. Marks Place
  • State Street | Nevins Street to Third Avenue
  • Smith Street businesses

Fort Greene & Clinton Hill

  • Waverly Avenue | DeKalb Avenue to Willoughby Avenue | Car-free 5–9pm, for the Society for Clinton Hill’s Halloween Safety Walk
  • BAMboo! | Saturday, October 31 | 2–5pm | BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue | Free | BAM’s annual family Halloween party, with carnival games, arts and crafts and candy giveaways, indoors and outdoors this year.
  • Myrtle Avenue businesses
  • Clinton Avenue | Myrtle Avenue to Gates Avenue
  • St. James Place | DeKalb Avenue to Atlantic Avenue

Three kids in Halloween costumes on a Brooklyn sidewalk

Prospect Heights

  • Park Place | Underhill Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue | Car-free 4–8pm
  • Sterling Place | Washington Avenue to Underhill Avenue | Car-free 4–8pm
  • Underhill Avenue | St. John’s Place to Prospect Place | Car-free 4–8pm
  • Prospect Place
  • St. John’s Place

Park Slope

  • 8th Street | Eighth Avenue to Prospect Park West | Car-free 1–8pm
  • 11th Street | Prospect Park West to Eighth Avenue | Car-free 1–8pm
  • 14th Street | Eighth Avenue to Seventh Avenue | Car-free 6:30–9pm, for the Park Slope Civic Council Halloween Parade
  • 17th Street | Eighth Avenue to Seventh Avenue | Car-free noon–9pm
  • 21st Street | Seventh Avenue to Sixth Avenue | Car-free 3:30–9pm
  • Garfield Place | Eighth Avenue to Seventh Avenue | Car-free 3–10pm
  • Montgomery Place | Prospect Park West to Eighth Avenue | Car-free 11am–8pm
  • Polhemus Place | Garfield Place to Carroll Street | Car-free 10:30am–9pm
  • Park Slope Halloween Parade | Saturday, October 31 | The Park Slope Civic Council’s parade steps off at 6:30pm from Seventh Avenue and 14th Street — come by 6pm to line up if you want to march — and heads down Seventh Avenue, left on 3rd Street, to end at the Old Stone House in Washington Park, where the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music plays. This year’s theme is “The Haunted Forest of Brooklyn,” led by an orange-and-black vintage Ford.
  • Boo!KCM | Saturday, October 31 | 4–6pm | Brooklyn Conservatory of Music garden, 58 Seventh Avenue | Free, RSVP | Live music, candy, water and somewhere to sit down on the trick-or-treating route. After the parade, the Conservatory leads a Halloween singalong outside the Old Stone House at 7:15pm.
  • Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue businesses
  • 3rd Street | Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue
  • 7th Street | Fifth Avenue to Fourth Avenue

Kids in costume trick-or-treating at a decorated Park Slope brownstone stoop

Red Hook

  • Van Brunt Street businesses
  • Coffey Street
  • Dikeman Street

Bed-Stuy

  • Jefferson Avenue | Patchen Avenue to Malcolm X Boulevard | Car-free 3–7pm
  • Jefferson Avenue | Throop Avenue to Tompkins Avenue | Car-free 4:30–8pm
  • Macon Street | Marcy Avenue to Nostrand Avenue | Car-free 8am–8pm
  • Madison Street | Nostrand Avenue to Bedford Avenue | Car-free 4:30–8pm
  • Marcy Avenue Plaza | Fulton Street to MacDonough Street | Car-free 3–7pm
  • Tompkins Avenue | Gates Avenue to Halsey Street | Car-free noon–7pm
  • Verona Place | Fulton Street to Macon Street | Car-free 8am–8pm
  • Putnam Avenue | Throop Avenue to Tompkins Avenue
  • Monroe Street | Throop Avenue to Tompkins Avenue
  • Quincy Street | Throop Avenue to Tompkins Avenue
  • Bed-Stuy Halloween Blocks | The neighbors behind Bed-Stuy’s annual map of decorated residential blocks, which they have been making for 20 years.

A Bed-Stuy brownstone stoop decorated for Halloween with neighbors in costume

Williamsburg

  • Leonard Street | Maujer Street to Grand Street | Car-free 1–6pm
  • Humboldt Plaza | Humboldt Street, Varet Street to Moore Street | Car-free 3–5pm
  • Bedford Avenue businesses
  • North 5th Street | Off Bedford Avenue
  • North 6th Street | Off Bedford Avenue

Greenpoint

  • Nassau Avenue | North 15th Street to Lorimer Street | Car-free 8am–8pm
  • Milton Street | Some of the best decorations in Greenpoint
  • Kent Street
  • Noble Street

Halloween afternoon in Greenpoint starts in Msgr. McGolrick Park: Friends of McGolrick Park’s fourth annual McGhoulrick Halloween runs from noon on Saturday, October 31, with trick-or-treating, games and crafts, a costume parade and a dance party.

Bay Ridge

  • 74th Street | Sixth Avenue to Fifth Avenue | Car-free noon–9pm
  • 82nd Street | Narrows Avenue to Colonial Road | Car-free 2–8pm
  • Bay Ridge Halloween Fest | Saturday, October 24 | 4–7pm | Fifth Avenue, 72nd to 85th Street | Free | Brooklyn Bridge Parents and the Fifth Avenue BID take over ten car-free blocks with a bouncy house, pumpkin decorating, trunk-or-treat, haunted trucks, games, crafts and giveaways, plus the PuppetMobile’s Pinocchio at 4pm. The street is car-free from 2pm under Trick-or-Streets.
  • Third Avenue and Fifth Avenue businesses
  • 86th Street | Between Shore Road and Third Avenue
  • 70th to 79th Streets | Between Colonial Road and Ridge Boulevard
  • The “Holiday House” | 635 79th Street | Worth the detour: the Bay Ridge house famous for decorating for every holiday.

The Holiday House at 635 79th Street in Bay Ridge lit up for Halloween

Sunset Park

  • 32nd Street | Fifth Avenue to Fourth Avenue | Car-free 1:30–8pm
  • Trunk or Treat at the 72nd Precinct | Wednesday, October 21 | 4–6pm | 830 Fourth Avenue | Free | Youth officers hand out candy from decorated car trunks, with face painting, games and a prize for the best costume.
  • Halloween Trick-or-Treat at Industry City | Saturday, October 31 | 12–4pm | No RSVP required | Come in costume for campus-wide trick-or-treating at participating businesses.
  • Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Avenue businesses
  • 44th and 45th Streets | Between Fourth and Fifth Avenues
  • 55th Street | Between Third and Fourth Avenues

Crown Heights & Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Prospect Park South

  • Albemarle Road | Buckingham Road to Stratford Road | Car-free 4–8pm

Bushwick

Ocean Hill

  • Bainbridge Street | Saratoga Avenue to Thomas S. Boyland Street | Car-free noon–7pm

East New York

Sheepshead Bay

Car-free earlier in October

  • Saturday, October 17: Chauncey Street, Howard Avenue to Saratoga Avenue, 2–5:30pm (Bed-Stuy)
  • Saturday, October 17: Newkirk Avenue, Coney Island Avenue to East 17th Street, 12:30–8:30pm (Ditmas Park)
  • Saturday, October 17: Sharon Street, Morgan Avenue to Olive Street, 1–4pm (East Williamsburg) — Friends of Cooper Park’s block party
  • Thursday, October 22: Hillel Place (Hillel Plaza), Kenilworth Place to Flatbush Avenue, 2–6pm (Flatbush) — DOT’s Brooklyn signature event
  • Thursday, October 22: Putnam Avenue (Jitu Weusi Plaza), Fulton Street to Grand Avenue, 10am–8:30pm (Clinton Hill)
  • Saturday, October 24: Fifth Avenue, 85th Street to 72nd Street, 2–7pm (Bay Ridge) — the Bay Ridge 5th Avenue BID’s Halloween Fest
  • Saturday, October 24: Franklin Avenue, Eastern Parkway to Dean Street, noon–5pm (Crown Heights)
  • Saturday, October 24: Roebling Street, Williamsburg Bridge entrance at South 4th Street, 1–5pm (Williamsburg)
  • Saturday, October 24: President Street, Classon Avenue to Washington Avenue, 10:30am–2:30pm (Crown Heights)
  • Saturday, October 24: 11th Avenue, 67th Street to 66th Street, noon–4pm (Dyker Heights) — NIA’s Halloween Spooktacular
  • Saturday, October 24: Harway Avenue, Bay 37th Street to 24th Avenue, noon–6pm (Bath Beach)
  • Thursday, October 29: Bristol Street, Blake Avenue to Dumont Avenue, noon–5pm (Brownsville)
  • Friday, October 30: Fort Hamilton Parkway, 70th Street to Bay Ridge Avenue, 2–5pm (Dyker Heights)
  • Friday, October 30: Gates Avenue Plaza, Vanderbilt Avenue to Fulton Street, 2:30–4:30pm (Clinton Hill)

More Halloween parades & parties in Brooklyn

For every free Halloween party, parade and pumpkin patch this October, see our Halloween Guide 2026.

Families in costume parading past a giant puppet near the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO

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