Our annual Halloween Guide features free family-friendly fall festivals and spooky events in Brooklyn. Get ready for the annual Halloween Fest in Fort Greene Park, Fall Fest at Atlantic Terminal and in Brooklyn Bridge Park, DUMBOWeen, a first time ever Superhero and Pumpkin Fest at City Point, the Park Slope and Cobble Hill Halloween Parades, a Halloween Festival in Bay Ridge, the best Trick-or-Treating streets and much more! Check back as well will be adding more Halloween fun in the coming weeks.
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Ongoing in October
Storytime: The Little Witch Who Lost Her Broom! at Books Are Magic Montague | Brooklyn Heights (ages 4-8)
Saturday, October 5 | 11:00-11:30am | Ages 4-8 | RSVP here
From the New York Times bestselling duo who brought you The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo! comes another not-so-spooky Halloween romp about a little witch who goes on a ghostly hunt to find her lost broom! With bold and gorgeous art accompanied by bouncy, rhyming text, The Little Witch Who Lost Her Broom is a charming, not-so-scary read-aloud perfect for Halloween!
The Campaign Against Hunger’s Children’s Harvest Festival at Saratoga Farm | Bed Stuy
Greg’s Halloween Paw-Rade @ Greenwood Park | Park Slope
Saturday, October 12 | 1-4pm
Greg’s Pumpkin Patch, which will be set up at Greenwood Park beer garden in Park Slope this October, is hosting a “Costume Pawrade” for dogs on Saturday, October 12. Prizes will be awarded for Best in Show, Best Group Costume, More Original, and more. And don’t forget to visit Greg’s Pumpkin Patch, opening September 28 for the Halloween season! Along with pumpkins, there will be a haystack maze, pumpkin painting and carving, and more activities.
Fall Fest at Atlantic Terminal Mall | Downtown Brooklyn
Sunday, October 13 | 11am-2pm | RSVP here
Atlantic Terminal and Brooklyn Bridge Parents are hosting a FREE family-friendly fall festival on Atlantic Terminal’s outdoor plaza and car-free Fort Greene Place on Sunday, October 13th from 11 am to 2 PM. We will set up an “urban pumpkin patch” with over 1,000 pumpkins waiting to be decorated by the kiddos. The outdoor plaza and car-free Fort Greene Place will feature arts & crafts, pumpkin painting, block building, haunted trucks to enter (if you dare), soccer, costume dance party and more! Kids are encouraged to come in costumes.
Halloween Family Movie Night: Goosebumps | Park Slope Library
Friday, October 18 | 3:30-5:30pm
Welcome to the Park Slope Library! Come and join us as we turn our auditorium into a mini movie theater for our Halloween interactive movie program when we watch Goosebumps! Rated PG, 103 minute runtime. All ages welcome, no registration required!
Red Hook Harvest Fest at Columbia Street Farm | Red Hook
Saturday, October 19 | 11am-3pm
Harvest Fest is happening on October 19th at Red Hook Farms at 560 Columbia Street, across from IKEA. This incredible community event draws over 700 people every year, especially for the kids! Expect food, beverages, music, games, art, our famous Hot Pepper Challenge, and much more!
Sound & Color! Autumn In New York | Brooklyn Bridge Park
Saturday, October 19 | 11am-5pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s annual fall festival will celebrate the changing of the season on Saturday, October 19, with an all-day family-friendly festival. Enjoy live musical performances, food vendors, kids activities, arts and crafts, field games and more—including our signature pumpkin patch.
Poplar Street Community Garden Pumpkin Party | Brooklyn Heights
Saturday, October 19 | 12-3pm | RSVP to [email protected]
Join the Poplar Street Community Garden for their annual Pumpkin Party, with pumpkin carving, pumpkin painting, Halloween crafts, treats, and harvesting of end-of-season herbs. RSVP to reserve a pumpkin at [email protected].
Superhero & Pumpkin Fest at City Point | Downtown Brooklyn
Sunday, October 20 | 11am-1pm | Ages 2-10 | RSVP here
City Point and Brooklyn Bridge Parents kick off the spooky season with Brooklyn’s first Superhero & Pumpkin Festive featuring Spiderman, Wonder Woman and Captain America and pumpkin decorating. Costumes encouraged! Best for ages 2 to 10. The free event will take place on Sunday, October 20 from 11 am to 1 pm at City Point on the ground floor level next to Rumi. Highlights include:
- Pumpkin decorating: take home a pumpkin (while supplies last)
- Spiderman, Wonder Woman & Captain America: Meet & Greet
- Superhero photos and dancing: snap a selfie, dance with the
- Fall crafts and balloon twisting
Fall Festival at Marsha P. Johnson State Park | Williamsburg
Sunday, October 20 | 12-4pm
Save the date for the Fall Festival! We will be holding our annual Fall Festival on Sunday, October 20th from 12:00PM – 4:00PM! Join us for an afternoon of food, music, puppet shows, and more! Note: In case of rain, the festival will be moved to Sunday, October 27, from 12 to 4pm.
Cobble Hill Halloween Window Painting | Cobble Hill
Saturday, October 26 | 8:30-11:30am
The Cobble Hill Association will once again be partnering with Mason Lane Art Advisory for Halloween Window Painting. More information coming soon!
26th Annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest | Fort Greene Park
In its 26th year, the Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest is Brooklyn’s largest and longest-running dog competition! The event will take place at the bottom of the Monument Stairs. As always, the show is free to watch! And stick around after the contest for Fort Greene Park’s Halloween Fest, from 12:00 to 4:00pm. Dogs and their humans who wish to enter must register to participate. Registration will open on Monday, September 23, at 10 a.m., and close Sunday, October 20 at 10 p.m. or until slots are sold out, whichever happens first. Visit the Fort Greene PUPS website or the Fort Greene PUPS Instagram page for contest updates!
Halloween Fest | Fort Greene Park
Saturday, October 26 | 12-4pm
Get ready for what’s in store, Halloween Fest is back with more! Dress up in your best costumes and join us on Saturday, October 26 from 12:00 to 4:00pm. Enjoy spooky stories, face painting, family-friendly games, and more. Halloween Fest is free to all, no RSVP required. And don’t miss out the PUPkin Dog Costume Contest, happening from 12:00 to 1:30pm at the bottom of Fort Greene Park’s Monument Stairs.
Seaport Kids x Halloween Bash | The Seaport
Saturday, October 26 | 3-5pm | RSVP here
Pumpkins. Tricks. And plenty of treats. Save the date for Seaport Kids x Halloween Block Party, in partnership with Mommy Poppins and Brooklyn Bridge Parents. From 3pm to 5pm on Saturday, October 26, the cobblestones and Seaport Square will transform into a Halloween-themed block party for kids. Enjoy a live music performance from urban cowboy musician Hopalong Andrew from 4:00-4:45pm, as well as pumpkin-painting, face-painting, halloween crafts activities and, of course, a celebration of attendees’ fabulous costumes. Guests are encouraged to wear costumes (both themselves and their doggos) for a chance to win a prize. We will choose two (2) winners – 1 dog winner and 1 human winner. Each winner will receive a Tin Building gift card.
Halloween Festival | 5th Ave in Bay Ridge
Saturday, October 26 | 3-7 pm | RSVP here
Stop by our annual Halloween Festival on 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge with FREE pumpkin decorating, bouncy house, music, kids activities, trick-or-treating and more! Brooklyn Bridge Parents is partnering up with the 5th Avenue BID in Bay Ridge to host a big fall festival on 10 blocks on car-free 5th Avenue from 72nd to 85th Street. Come enjoy the many restaurants from all over the world and a block party with bouncy houses, arts & crafts, pumpkin decorating, “Trunk-or-Treat”, haunted truck, music and much more. The free event will take place on Saturday, October 26th from 3 to 7 pm. Kids are encouraged to come in costumes!
Pumpkin Point 2024 | Governors Island
Saturday, October 26 & Sunday, October 27
Get excited for spooky season: Pumpkin Point returns to Governors on #Halloweekend 2024! NYC’s most unique pumpkin patch is just a ferry ride away October 26 & 27, 2024, featuring arts & crafts, trick or treating on both days, fall-themed food and drink, and—of course—a huge pumpkin patch in Nolan Park. Pumpkin Point is free, with a suggested donation day-of if you are able. All you need to do is reserve your ferry tickets here!
Halloween Fun at Montague Open Streets | Brooklyn Heights
Sunday, October 27 | 10am-7pm | See full lineup of activities here
Montague Open Streets will be closing out the 2024 season on Sunday, October 27 with Halloween Fun! Highlights will include:
- Montague Diner’s Halloween Spooktacular
- James Weir Floral’s Pick Your Pumpkin Patch
- Trick or Treat at Montague Street merchants
- New York Blood Center Blood Drive with St. Ann’s. Sign up here to donate!
Court Street Spectacular | Brooklyn Heights
Sunday, October 27 | 11am-6pm
Court Street Spectacular Street Fair between Atlantic Avenue and Joralemon Street. Enjoy Brooklyn’s last big street festival of the year! Come take a stroll down Court Street and visit the merchants and vendors, great food and exciting kiddie rides on Court Street. Great fun all day!
Carroll Park Children’s Halloween Celebration | Carroll Gardens
Sunday, October 27 | 11:30am-1pm
Join for Carroll Park’s Children’s Halloween Celebration! There will be free music, treats, and kid-friendly activities!
Halloween Kids Create! | Park Slope Library
Wednesday, October 30 | 4:00-4:45pm | Ages 4+
Celebrate Halloween at the Park Slope Library and create a take-home craft with us! For kids 6 and up. Younger children (4 and up) are welcome when accompanied by an adult to help
Events on Halloween: Thursday, October 31
DUMBOWEEN | DUMBO | 4-7pm
One of our favorite neighborhood traditions, DUMBOWEEN brings hundreds of costumed Dumbonians out for our Annual March to the Arch through Brooklyn Bridge Park with brass bands + puppets, followed an Archway Party featuring crafts with Creatively WILD Art Studio, a photobooth and of course, candy! Plus, Trick-or-Treat at 50 + Dumbo small businesses around the neighborhood!
- 4pm | March to the Arch | Gather on Washington Street between Front and Water Streets. Parade through DUMBO en route to the Dumbo Archway, led by live music and puppets!
- 4-7pm | Trick or Treat in Dumbo | It’s a neighborhood-wide tradition! 50+ small businesses hand out candy on Halloween from 3-7pm (while supplies last.) Look for the pumpkin sign in the window of participating locations. Get the map here!
- 4:30-7pm | Dumbo Archway Party | Hands-on fun with Creatively WILD Art Studio, a spooktacular photobooth, live music, prizes for the best (human!) costumes, drinks for sale from The Archway Bar – and of course, lots of candy!
- 5pm | Howl-O-Ween | Deck out your four-legged friend and come to **Washington Street** for the second annual Dumbo x H.E.A.L Howl-O-Ween! Prizes for (1) Most original, (2) Best Owner/pet duo and (3) Best in show/Cutest/Coolest. Win an Apple Watch and lots of of other great prizes. Birds, cats, alligators also welcome!
- All weekend! | Photo Fun for Everyone! | We’re creating festive photo experiences, perfect for showing off that creepy costume or commemorating a day in Dumbo. Find them on Washington Street and in the Dumbo Archway Thursday October 26 through Tuesday October 31.
Boo!KCM Halloween Celebration | Park Slope | 4-6pm
BKCM’s free, family-friendly Halloween garden party in Park Slope is back! Some have speculated that our 143-year-old Victorian mansion may be haunted. We can neither confirm nor deny these rumors, but we CAN confirm that some talented musical spirits will be giving a spine-chilling performance in the garden, and that the candy will be plentiful and frightfully delicious. RSVP here!
Cobble Hill Halloween Parade | Cobble Hill | 4pm
Organized by the Cobble Hill Association, the Cobble Hill Halloween Parade is ALWAYS on Halloween, rain or shine. The parade marches Congress to Henry, around to Warren Street and back to the park. Afterwards, kids can stop at stoops for treats in one of the most active Halloween communities in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn’s favorite family-friendly Halloween party is back! Put a lid on the cauldron, grab your broomsticks, and soar over to BAM for an afternoon of candy giveaways, carnival games, arts and crafts, trick-or-treat popcorn, and kid-friendly short films in the BAM Rose Cinemas.
Park Slope Halloween Parade | Park Slope | 5:30-7:30pm
Dress up in your best costume and join in the annual Park Slope Civic Council Halloween Parade! The parade begins at 14th Street and 7th Avenue, then heads north on 7th Avenue, turning left on 3rd Street and ending in J.J. Byrne Playground at the Old Stone House. Look for BKCM musicians at the end of the parade, on the corner of 5th Avenue and 3rd Street, for a spectacular Halloween sing-a-long where you can mash with the Monsters, cast a spell with the Sanderson Sisters and jam with Jack Skelington.
- 5:30pm: Queue up for the parade at 14th St
- 6:30pm: Civic Council kicks off the parade, followed by elected officials
- 7:30pm: Parade ends at Old Stone House/Washington Park
Big Halloween Get Down | Brooklyn Bridge Park | 6-10pm
Join Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy for their first-ever Big Halloween Get Down dance party with Sounds from Herbert Holler! This is a free, all-ages event at Pier 3 Plaza. Bring your good vibes and your best moves! Doors open at 6:00 PM and the dance party starts at 7:00 PM. RSVP so we know you’re coming! This is an all-ages event, but youth under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Garden Place Trick-or-Treating | Brooklyn Heights
Garden Place Trick-or-Treating: Kids start trick-or-treating around 4pm on October 31st. The gathering runs all afternoon until dusk when everybody runs out of candy.
Strong Place Trick-or-Treating | Cobble Hill
Kids start trick-or-treating around 4pm on October 31st on Strong Place in Cobble Hill. The gathering runs all afternoon until dusk when everybody runs out of candy.
Clinton Street Trick-or-Treating | Cobble Hill & Carroll Gardens
Kids start trick-or-treating around 4pm on October 31st on Clinton Street from Pacific all the way down into Carroll Gardens. The gathering runs all afternoon until dusk when everybody runs out of candy.
For all car-free trick-or-treating streets on Halloween, check out NYC DOT’s Trick-or-Streets. They will map out Open Streets, plazas, and other corridors for families to enjoy on Halloween. They will also be hosting Halloween activities and performances this October, as well as events for Día De Los Muertos—stay tuned!
Post-Halloween Events
Day of the Dead Family Celebration at Green-Wood Cemetery | South Slope
Friday, November 1 | 4-7pm | Register here
Discover the rich history and traditions associated with the holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) through family-friendly crafts, performances, music, activities, and food. Celebrated throughout Latin America from October 31st to November 2nd, this holiday is a time for family and friends to commemorate departed loved ones through prayer, altars, music, and dance. Free. Registration recommended to receive updates about the event. Walk-ins are welcomed. No admittance after 5:30pm.
Updated: September 25, 2024.
