Oct. 31, 2024 By ishkurhan Oct. 31, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan One Astoria family paid homage to Chappell Roan, one of this year’s biggest breakthrough pop stars, by transforming their porch into the ‘Pink Pony Club’ for Halloween. On Broadway and 32nd Street, two skeletons holding microphones are staged in a cobweb sea of pink… Read more »
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No tricks here: More than 30 Brooklyn streets to close for trick-or-treating, parades this Halloween
Oct. 30, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen It’s all treats, no tricks on Brooklyn’s streets this Oct. 31, as the city closes off more than 30 streets across the borough for Halloween festivities. For the third year, the Department of Transportation is partnering with local organizations for “Trick-or-Streets,” for safer trick-or-treating free from car traffic…
Pup culture! Dogs dazzle at Brooklyn’s biggest canine costume contest
Oct. 28, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Canines and their two-legged friends had a howling good time at the 26th annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest in Fort Greene Park on Oct. 26. Brooklyn’s largest and most creative puppy costume contest drew over 1,000 attendees who cheered on pups strutting elaborate outfits. The themes ranged…
Frightful fun: A guide to Halloween festivities in Brooklyn
Oct. 23, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen Brooklynites have been buying costumes and carving pumpkins all month, and finally, Halloween is just a week away. The next eight days are full of frightful fun all over the borough — ghostly film screenings, costume contests (for those with four legs and two), parades, parties and more.…
Bay Ridge’s favorite ‘holiday house’ transforms into a haunted Halloween spectacle
Oct. 18, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Roy Jensen’s home on Fort Hamilton Parkway near Seventh Avenue, known to many as Bay Ridge’s “holiday house,” gets decked out for just about every occasion, but Halloween is an especially spooky treat. The eerie display features gory handmade silicone masks from a movie prop company adorning the…
PHOTOS | The spooky spirit arrives in Luna Park at 12th annual Halloween Harvest
Oct. 15, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen There’s a chill in the air at Coney Island, and the spooky spirit has settled in at Luna Park for the 12th annual Halloween Harvest celebration. The park has decked out with hay bales and pumpkins, transformed into a fall wonderland stuffed with seasonal activities. Visitors can explore…
All aboard! Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours return to Brooklyn’s haunted streets
Aug. 20, 2024 By Jack Parry Standing on a random sidewalk in Williamsburg on a Saturday evening, the hustle and bustle of a weekend night in Brooklyn can be distracting. But nothing quite catches your eye like a 20th century trolley rolling down a busy street. After coming to a full stop, the vehicle…
PHOTOS: Costumed locals revel in Halloween festivities across Boo-klyn
Nov. 2, 2023 By Augostina Mallous & Kirstyn Brendlen
Cobble Hill and Park Slope became spooky strongholds on Tuesday night as ghouls and goblins gathered together for annual Halloween festivities.
Victims hospitalized after Halloween double shooting in East New York: NYPD
Nov. 1, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
The NYPD is hunting for a suspect following a double shooting on Tuesday night.
PHOTOS: The best of this year’s Great PUPkin dog costume contest
Oct. 31, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
Hundreds of dogs in costumes celebrated Halloween in Fort Greene’s highly competitive costume contest, the Great PUPkin, on Oct. 28.