the roundup is broken out into three sections:
• parties + events
• tribute band parties
• movie-related
note: events marked with a pumpkin 🎃 will have a costume contest
parties + events
10/31 2-6pm: free show brain concert: show brain returns to tompkins square park (east village) with a free, all-ages halloween concert featuring balaclava, skorts, and bec lauder + the noise. >>
🎃 10/31 3:30pm-midnight: theater for the new city’s 49th annual village halloween costume ball: outdoor festivities 3-7pm (free admission); indoor party 6:30-midnight ($20). >>
10/31 6pm: gowanus dredgers canoe club presents: spooky shenanigans on the gowanus canal: a costumed voyage on the gowanus canal. free admission. >>
10/31 7-11pm (rain or shine): the 52nd annual village halloween parade: free to costumed marchers (enter at the corner of canal st + 6th ave from 6:30-9pm); free to watch along 6th ave between king st and w 15th st. >>
🎃 10/31 7pm-late: ny night train’s 20th annual halloween haunted hop: knockdown center (maspeth), $32.96+. >>
🎃 sponsored: 10/31 7:30pm doors: the vampire circus: a halloween spectacular: the internationally acclaimed cirque-style production makes its new york premiere at united palace (washington heights). use code ‘tvc-skint’ for 50% off tickets! >>
10/31 7:30pm: jalopoween burstin’ boots country music dance party: jalopy theatre (carroll gardens/columbia street waterfront), $20 adv, $25 door. >>
🎃 10/31 8pm-midnight: prohibition productions presents: the salon 12th anniversary halloween stomp: ‘a secret private social club’ in murray hill, $33+. >>
🎃 10/31 8pm: a drinking game nyc presents: a drunk re-enactment of hocus pocus. the bell house (gowanus), $25.05. >>
10/31 8pm doors: the nite church presents: a carnival of souls: the grand gothic halloween ball: tv eye (ridgewood), $20-30. >>
10/31 9pm: slash her halloween party + drag show: cassette (ridgewood), $12.03. >>
🎃 10/31 9pm-1am: anna copa cabanna + joe mcginty’s 10th halloween s(t)inging spooktacular piano karaoke party: sid gold’s request room (chelsea), free admission. >>
10/31 9pm-1am: silent scream silent disco halloween party: bohemian beer garden (astoria), $30+ (a credit or debit card is needed for the check-in process to use the required headphones). >>
🎃 10/31 10:30pm-late: yes homo: homoween party: c’mon everybody (bed-stuy), $25.50. >>
10/31 11pm-3:30am: karaoke tremendous: halloween edition: union hall (park slope), free admission. >>
10/31 + 11/1 (7pm): dead distillers halloween tour + whiskey tastings at kings county distillery: brooklyn navy yard, $40. >>
11/1 (various times) : pumpkin smash!: smashing pumpkins at hudson river park’s pier 84 (12-3pm) and astoria park (1-3pm). free admission.
11/1 4-7pm: day of the dead family celebration at green-wood cemetery. free admission. >>
11/1 7:30pm: día de muertos celebration featuring pasatono orquesta: lincoln center’s david rubenstein atrium (uws), free admission. >>
🎃 11/1 8pm: brooklyn bathhouse’s nightmare on prom night halloween party: brooklyn bathhouse (prospect lefferts gardens/flatbush), $25+. >>
11/1 11:45pm: young adult friction indie + alt dance party: halloween edition: union hall (park slope), free admission. >>
11/1-2 (sat 12-4pm, sun 12-5pm): mano a mano’s annual day of the dead festival + marketplace: st. mark’s church in-the-bowery (east village). free admission (donations welcome). >>
11/2 5-10pm: thique or treat: a costume party for plus-size queers: rubulad (bushwick), $12-18. >>
tribute band parties
10/31 7pm: halloween at union pool: black sabbath / ozzy osbourne, and other covers + originals. union pool (williamsburg). free admission. >>
🎃 10/31 7pm: cropsey records halloween: lil peep, bruce springsteen, black sabbath, and red hot chili peppers, plus live wrestling. market hotel (bushwick), $18 adv, $22 door. >>
10/31 7pm doors: third annual ghost town hoedown halloween: country cover sets. alphaville (bushwick), $17 adv, $20 day of. >>
🎃 10/31 7-10pm: sauce city halloween party: a tribute to fleetwood mac. littlefield (gowanus), $24.36 – $29.50. >>
10/31 7-11pm: halloween at mama tried: pulp and guided by voices. mama tried (sunset park), free admission. >>
10/31 7pm-1am: meet me in the wonderville bathroom… on halloween: covers show: yeah yeah yeahs, the strokes, interpol, lcd soundsystem, atom + his package, red hot chili peppers: wonderville (bushwick), free admission. >>
10/31 8pm: 80s halloween with the smiths + the cure tributes: gramercy theater (flatiron district), $33.95+. >>
10/31 10pm: f*bomb: halloween spectacular: black sabbath and ozzy osbourne. lucky 13 saloon (gowanus), $25. >>
thru 11/1 (7pm-1am): gutterween at the gutter: chappell roan, elton john, black sabbath, blondie, charlie xcx, and many more. the gutter (williamsburg), free admission. >>
11/1 7pm: antics magazine presents: anticsween: deftones, morphine, and yeah yeah yeahs. union pool (williamsburg). $18.54. >>
11/1 7:30pm: cassette’s halloween cover show: pavement, the magnetic fields, and the moldy peaches. cassette (ridgewood), $24.05. >>
11/2 8pm: the halloween hangover: queens of the stone age, fiona apple, paramore, and ozzy osbourne. purgatory (bushwick), $13.60. >>
movie-related
10/31 6:50pm: the cat and the canary (1927): film forum (south village), $17, >>
10/31 7:30pm: cemetery cinema: blacula (1972): coney island usa, $15. >>
10/31 7:30pm: beats, rhymes + sights present: blade (1998) with a live original soundtrack by dj 2-tone jones: lincoln center’s david rubenstein atrium (uws), free admission. >>
10/31 10pm: over the garden wall screening + pajama/costume party: footlight underground at the windjammer (ridgewood). free admission (donations welcomed) >>
11/1-2 (11:15am): secretformula presents: spoons toons + booze halloween special: nitehawk cinema (williamsburg), $20. >>
