A Spooktacular Halloween in New York

New York is always a city abuzz with excitement and what better time to enjoy the energy that this city has to offer than at Halloween.

New York at Halloween is an absolutely transformed place and you can’t help but wonder at all the things you can try out at this time of the year.

Fun Halloween events

New York gives you great options for some spooky fun. Here is a look at what you should check out:

The Village Halloween Parade features some of the most amazing Halloween costumes. You can dress up and take part in the parade or just watch it from any of the surrounding buildings. The parade starts in the evening at 6th Avenue and Spring Street and goes up 6th Avenue to 21st Street.

Halloween isn’t just a time for trick or treating. It’s also the time to explore the eerie parts of this city and the NYC Gotham City Ghost Tour let you do just this. This tour takes you around all the spooky and haunted places in Greenwich Village such as the Washington Square burial ground, the hanging elm, Edgar Allan Poe’s home and so on.

The New City Theatre comes alive every year during Halloween, by playing host to the Annual Halloween Festival and Costume. It’s the place to come for enjoying events such as costume contests, tarot card reading, dancing and much more.

Kids’ fun

Halloween is when kids usually get unusually creative in trying out the spookiest of things. Here are a few places that are bound to be a scary treat:

Visit St. John the Divine on Halloween morning to enjoy a reading of the Night of the Gargoyles and then move on to various workshop activities like making paper masks, gargoyles and much more. The American Museum of Natural History is just right for people who want to celebrate Halloween with their families. Everyone gets to have a great time participating in time honored Halloween traditions like trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and much more with many other families. And as the saying goes, the more, the merrier!

Costume couture

If you want to enjoy the best of the macabre fare in New York, you will definitely need a look that befits the occasion. There are many many many places to choose from. One interesting place is New York Costumes. This place has a wide selection of costumes and you can find movie-theme costumes, scary costumes, fun costumes and much more here for your costume ball. I also found the Abracadabra Superstore to be really impressive as it offers not only really flamboyant costumes, but also a wide range of accessories to enhance your preferred look. Those who are looking for a good costume rental store should try out Creative Costume. This store provides some of the best rental costumes and you will find their rates to be really reasonable.

This is just a bare bones guide. After all, we’re talking about New York! So get out there and discover the hair-raising magic of Halloween in NYC!

Photo of Jack ‘o lanterns in New York by Angela Rutherford

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Grace lives in India. She loves to travel, not as a tourist, but to soak in the secrets of the nooks and crannies of this amazing planet. She also loves words, expressed through the medium of writing. She firmly believes that a well crafted piece of writing can accomplish ANYTHING!