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Costumes
It's Halloween and time for all the
true ghouls of New York City to crawl out of their
subterranean haunts and hit the streets to blend
in with the local populace! But if you are not a
true ghoul and need a few pieces to update your
"Queen of the Night" look, the first stop
on your Halloween journey should be New York's fabulous
year-round Halloween store, Abracadabra, located
at 19 West 21 Street, between 5th and 6th Avenue.
October hours are everyday, 11AM to 9PM. See www.abracadabrasuperstore.com
for more information.
Dog Parade
Once suitably atired (if you are
a dog, or just like dogs), check out:
LARGEST HALLOWEEN DOG PARADE
AT NATION’S TOP DOG PARK
Tompkins Square Park - New York's East Village
Saturday October 27th @ Noon
Hounds Go A’ Haunting Halloween
just got beastlier. “Friends of First Run"
is pleased to announce the hound howling 17th Annual
Tompkins Square Dog Run Halloween Parade. On Saturday
October 27th, hundreds of masquerading mutts will
participate in the country’s largest Halloween
parade for dogs at one of the nations Top Dog Parks
(Dog Fancy Magazine, May 20, 2005). Pimpin’
pooches contend for over $5,000 in prizes, including
two Apple iPod Nano, flat screen TVs and a weekend
getaway for two with your dog. All proceeds go to
the N.Y. Parks Department for the renovation of
First Run -- the city's first and largest dog run.
Click
here for more information.
Halloween
Adventure House
And then off you should go to New York's artisitic
haunted house.
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Photo
Credit Wendy R. Williams |
Photo
Credit Wendy R. Williams |
Log onto (www.hauntedhousenyc.com)
for directions and tickets to the Psycho Clan's
" Nightmare, New York’s Original Haunted
House" which is running Thursday, September
27, 2007 through Sunday, November 04, 2007 at the
CSV Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk Street at Rivington
- Telephone: 212 929-2963.
Carnivals
There are two really great celebrations
on October 31st: one at BAM and one at The Theater
for the New City.
BAM
PRESENTS BAMboo!
Wed, Oct 31, 4—7PM
Free!
Here
is a quote from the BAM
website: " BAM's sixth annual Halloween
extravaganza brings out Brooklyn's best trick-or-treaters
for an evening of space exploration and alien adventure—ghouls,
pirates, and clowns welcome too. From candy giveaways
to costume contests and tons of fun games, kids
of all ages can enjoy the free festivities happening
right in front of BAM and in our neighboring garden.
Please join us this year for some close encounters
of the BAM kind! "
BAM's Peter
Jay Sharp Building| 30 Lafayette Avenue
Between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street
Directions - Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B to Atlantic
Avenue;
D, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street;
C to Lafayette Avenue
Photo Credit Wendy R. Williams
Theater
for the New City's 30th Annual Village Halloween
Costume Ball
Doors open 7:30 pm
Wednesday October 31.
Theater for the New City
Theater for the New City, originator
of the famous Village Halloween Parade, hosts the
31st annual Village Halloween Costume Ball.
Come see TNC's 2-story 30,000 square foot space
transformed into a series of Halloween environments
by painters and scenic designers. Tap dancers, belly
dancers, lounge acts, musicians, and comedy teams
will perform throughout the night in two Cabarets.
Past performers have included Reno, Bina Sharif,
Wise Guise, Penny Arcade, Zero Boy, the Living Theater,
and NY Lyric Circus. Party with your favorite downtown
stars! Costume contest at Midnight with downtown
Celebrity Judges!
Have your tarot cards read! Salsa and Swing all
night! Sample food from various East Village restaurants
in the Cauldron! Cathartic experiences await in
the Scary Room! Mythical creatures abound!
The one-night fiesta takes over all four of TNC's
theater spaces, plus its lobby and the block of
East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues.
Customarily over 1,400 wildly-clad celebrants gather
for dancing, dining, showing off costumes and viewing
acts from the cutting-edge of Cabaret and Theater.
Admission is $20; costume or formal wear is required.
Dance orchestras will include The Great Paprika
Band, a noted Brazilian jazz pop orchestra, and
Hot Lavender Swing Band, an all-Gay and Lesbian
18-piece orchestra.
Infoi/ticketing ovationtix.com
or (212) 254-1109
Admission is $20; costume or formal wear is required.
Theater for the
New City | East Tenth
Street between First and Second Avenues
And for the horror film afficienados, there is
the increasingly scary New York Horror Film Festival.
New York
City Horror Festival
October 24 - 28th
NYU Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
Between University and Greene
Log onto nychorrorfest.com
for more information.
Village Halloween
Parade
Photo Credit Wendy R. Williams
And don't forget to march in the
Halloween Parade on Wednesday, October 31st, starting
at 7 p.m. All those in costume are welcome to join
hundreds of puppets, 53 bands of different types
of music, dancers and artists and thousands of other
New Yorkers in costumes of their own creation in
the nation’s most wildly creative public participatory
event in the Greatest City in the World !
Line-Up ! For all those in costume is on 6th Avenue
South of Spring Street and North of Canal between
6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Alert ! ONLY enter the line-up
on 6th Ave. from the East and South between Canal
and Spring. For more information, log onto: http://www.halloween-nyc.com
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Photo Credit Krisztina Fazekas
Photo Credit Krisztina Fazekas
After Party
Webster Hell
Halloween Party
Webster Hall After
Party
October 31st 8PM - 4AM
After you march in the parade you
can quench your thirst and meet some of the other
ghouls at the Webster Hall Afterparty. With its
Demon Queen and Penthouse Pets, the parade's official
after-party comes closest to one-upping the madness
of Sixth Avenue.
Price: $30 in advance; $38 at the door; $75 open
bar all night; $240 VIP table ervice (for up to
four people)
. Log onto: www.websterhall.com
for more information.
Webster Hall |125 E. 11th
St., Near Third Ave.
212-353-1600
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