A Haunting in the Garden - Halloween
📍 Queens
A free Halloween event at The Garden by the Bay in Queens, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
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Top things to do for visitors, each linked to its official source.
New York City Metro Area
📍 Queens
A free Halloween event at The Garden by the Bay in Queens, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Bayville
Five haunted houses in one themed park on Long Island's North Shore.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A free Halloween event at Berry Street Garden in Brooklyn, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Battery Park City
Architecture teams build larger-than-life sculptures from thousands of cans, all donated to City Harvest.
Official site ↗📍 Bedford Park
NYBG's first Día de los Muertos: a marigold trail with calaveras, a giant flower Catrina, a community ofrenda, and a parade on Nov 1.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx
A free Día de los Muertos gathering at Friends of Brook Park in Bronx, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at Dyckman Marina, Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Try a free juggling lesson with equipment provided, or watch the Bryant Park Jugglers practice.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Try a free juggling lesson with equipment provided, or watch the Bryant Park Jugglers practice.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Try a free juggling lesson with equipment provided, or watch the Bryant Park Jugglers practice.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A free Halloween event at George Washington Carver Community Garden in Brooklyn, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Bellport
The Gateway theater campus becomes a walk-through haunt with sets and live performers.
Official site ↗📍 Greenpoint
Town Square’s long-running neighborhood Halloween parade for kids in Greenpoint.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Kiosk-to-kiosk trick-or-treating, caricature artists and Halloween movies on the Hudson.
Official site ↗📍 Seaport
A neighborhood-wide Halloween: free museum admission, trick-or-treating at about 30 Seaport businesses, and a Haunted Fish Market with a dog costume contest.
Official site ↗📍 Astoria
Pumpkin decorating, costume making, a vegan food market and a big dog costume contest to close the park’s season.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A free Halloween event at Brooklyn's Finest Garden in Brooklyn, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx
A free Halloween event at Garden of Life in Bronx, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at Harlem Valley Garden in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A free Halloween event at 61 Franklin Street Garden in Brooklyn, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at North Lawn, Morningside Park in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Irvington
Storyteller Jonathan Kruk performs The Legend of Sleepy Hollow outdoors at Washington Irving’s home.
Official site ↗📍 Jersey City
Jersey City residents can pick up free leaf bags at Lafayette Park. Proof of residency is required; the city does not publish quantities or remaining stock.
Official site ↗📍 Jersey City
Jersey City residents can pick up free leaf bags at Van Vorst Park. Proof of residency is required; the city does not publish quantities or remaining stock.
Official site ↗📍 Queens
A free Halloween event at Bowne Park Field House, Bowne Park in Queens, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
The country's biggest night parade: thousands in costume, giant puppets and bands marching up Sixth Avenue.
Official site ↗📍 Canarsie Park
A free event at Canarsie Park House (in Canarsie Park) in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 31, 08:45–10:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 John Golden Park
A free event at Entrance to John Golden Park (in John Golden Park),John Golden Parking Lot (in John Golden Park) in Queens on Saturday, October 31, 08:45–11:00. check the source link for RSVP and details before
Official site ↗📍 25 11th Ave, New York, NY 10011
A free event at 25 11th Ave in Manhattan on Saturday, October 31, 11:00–20:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Meatpacking District
Free walk-through pop-up from POP MART (maker of Labubu) with three immersive SKULLPANDA rooms.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at Sugar Hill Hope Garden in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Stony Brook
Stony Brook Village Center hosts a free Halloween afternoon with trick-or-treating, children's games, music and scarecrow-contest awards. Shopping and food are optional.
Official site ↗📍 Croton-on-Hudson
Thousands of hand-carved jack o'lanterns lit along a walking trail at Van Cortlandt Manor.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A free Halloween event at Vinegar Hill Community Garden in Brooklyn, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx
A free Halloween event at Risse Street Community Garden in Bronx, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at Edgecomb Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Kids in costume can trick-or-treat through the Chelsea Market concourse all Halloween day.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
A late-afternoon Halloween treat stroll for kids in Bryant Park.
Official site ↗📍 Sleepy Hollow
An outdoor Halloween village at Philipsburg Manor with storytellers, fire performers and the Headless Horseman.
Official site ↗📍 Washington Heights
Free annual Halloween parade in Washington Heights along Cabrini Boulevard.
Official site ↗📍 188 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10013, USA
A free event at 188 Lafayette Street in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 11:00–15:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Carroll Gardens
Costume parade led by the Underground Horns, plus kid activities and a BYO pumpkin contest at Urban Meadow.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free event at Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 18:30–22:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Brookfield Place, Vesey Street, New York, NY, USA
A free event at Brookfield Place in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 10:00–19:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 64 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA
A free event at 64 Dobbin Street in Brooklyn on Friday, October 30, 18:00–14:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Cobble Hill
Free Cobble Hill Halloween parade on Congress Street.
Official site ↗📍 Sunset Park
NYC Parks presents a free outdoor screening of the stop-motion film Corpse Bride on Sunset Park’s Central Lawn.
Official site ↗📍 Starlight Park
A free event at Bronx River House (in Starlight Park) in Bronx on Thursday, October 29, 12:30–14:30. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx
A free Halloween event at Model T Garden in Bronx, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Van Cortlandt Park
A free event at Van Cortlandt Classic Playground (in Van Cortlandt Park) in Bronx on Friday, October 30, 09:00–12:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Forest Hills
Free Forest Hills Halloween parade along Metropolitan Avenue.
Official site ↗📍 Vessel, Hudson Yards, New York, NY, USA
A free event at Vessel in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 11:00–19:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 DUMBO
Spend Halloween afternoon with a solo piano concert at Brooklyn Bridge Park's Boathouse.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Sample Indian snacks from Tasting India, an early Diwali celebration.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx Park
A free event at 3420 Duncomb Ave, Bronx, NY (in Bronx Park) in Bronx on Thursday, October 29, 16:00–18:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 935 Broadway, New York, NY, USA
A free event at 935 Broadway in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 10:00–19:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Crown Heights
Free Halloween afternoon at Imani II Community Garden with trick-or-treating, apple cider and a movie.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx
A free Halloween event at Wishing Well Garden in Bronx, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Coney Island
Free Halloween candy giveaway for kids at Santos Community Garden in Coney Island.
Official site ↗📍 Melrose
Free Halloween celebration at El Flamboyan Community Garden in the Bronx.
Official site ↗📍 Washington Heights
Free Halloween mask-making with The Met Cloisters, then a Haunted Cottage evening in Fort Tryon Park.
Official site ↗📍 75 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011
A free event at 75 9th Ave in Manhattan on Saturday, October 31, 12:00–20:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Bushwick
Family-friendly Halloween party with treats and crafts at Stockholm Street Community Garden.
Official site ↗📍 East Harlem
Free Halloween candy giveaway at Serenity Garden in the Lexington Houses community garden.
Official site ↗📍 Bedford-Stuyvesant
Free trick-or-treating at Greene Avenue United Neighbors Community Garden near Herbert Von King Park.
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
Free Halloween festival at Harlem Grown with farm activities, crafts, a haunted tent, music and costumes.
Official site ↗📍 Prospect Park
Prospect Park's historic carousel goes spooky for Halloween week: rides set to Halloween jams, noon to 5 PM through Sunday.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwood Heights
After-hours guided night walk through Green-Wood's lit monuments and mausoleums on Halloween, ending with rare access inside the Catacombs.
Official site ↗📍 5th Street & Washington Street, Hoboken, NJ, USA
A free event at N/A in New Jersey on Saturday, October 31, 12:00–17:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free Halloween event at Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Riverside Park in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Rows of glass kiosks with makers, gifts and holiday food around the free Bryant Park rink.
Official site ↗📍 Queens
A free event at Hunter's Point South Park in Queens on Thursday, October 29, 10:00–12:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Jackson Heights
Free annual children’s Halloween parade along 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free event at Greeley Square Park in Manhattan on Friday, October 30, 14:00–15:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Queens
A free event at Kissena Park in Queens on Friday, October 30, 09:00–12:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Queens
A free Halloween event at LIC Community Gardens, Inc. in Queens, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 600 Broadway, New York City, NY 10012, USA
A free event at 600 Broadway on Saturday, October 31, 10:00–18:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwood Heights
Halloween-morning trolley tour of the graves of séance-holders, stage magicians and Spiritualists, starting with the Fox sisters' story.
Official site ↗📍 Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10027
A free event at Greenfield Hall in Manhattan on Friday, October 30, 10:00–17:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Canal St & 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013, USA
A free event at Canal St & 6th Ave in Manhattan on Saturday, October 31, 19:00–22:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Queens
A free event at Astoria Park in Queens on Saturday, October 31, 08:45–11:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Baisley Pond Park
A free event at Baisley Pond Park House (in Baisley Pond Park) in Queens on Saturday, October 31, 08:45–11:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing Meadows Corona Park
A free event at United Nations Ave South Entrance (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park) in Queens on Thursday, October 29, 18:45–20:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Inwood Hill Park
A free event at Seaman Avenue and Isham Street Entrance (in Inwood Hill Park) in Manhattan on Saturday, October 31, 08:45–10:30. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Free children’s Halloween parade in Greenwich Village with NYU and CB2.
Official site ↗📍 Prospect Park
Free open-air screening of Oscar Micheaux's 1932 mystery-thriller with a live vinyl score, by Alfreda's Cinema and Prospect Park Alliance.
Official site ↗📍 Washington Square Park
A free event at Northwest Corner Seating Area (in Washington Square Park) in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 13:00–15:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Park Slope
Free neighborhood Halloween parade along Seventh Avenue in Park Slope.
Official site ↗📍 Bronx
A free event at Wave Hill in Bronx on Thursday, October 29, 14:00–14:45. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing Meadows Corona Park
The last Saturday-night food market of the season: dozens of vendors cooking dishes from around the world.
Official site ↗📍 Van Der Plas Gallery, Orchard Street, New York, NY, USA
A free event at Van Der Plas Gallery in Manhattan on Friday, October 30, 15:00–17:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Forest Park
A free event at Buddy Monument (in Forest Park) in Queens on Friday, October 30, 10:00–12:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A free Halloween event at Howard Garden in Brooklyn, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 262 Mott Street, New York, NY, USA
A free event at 262 Mott Street in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 10:00–19:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 66 Ainslie Street store b, Brooklyn, NY, USA
A free event at 66 Ainslie Street store b in Brooklyn on Friday, October 30, 12:00–16:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Siedenburg Park
A free event at Redwood Ave & Corbin Ave (in Siedenburg Park) in Staten Island on Friday, October 30, 10:00–12:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Prospect Park
Free Halloween-day nature hike with NYC Urban Park Rangers on the folklore of Sleepy Hollow, plus a meet-and-greet with the Parks mounted patrol horses.
Official site ↗📍 Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Boulevard, Astoria, NY, USA
A free event at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens on Saturday, October 31, 12:00–17:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 48 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
A free event at 48 Ludlow St in Manhattan on Friday, October 30, 10:00–17:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Prospect Park
Halloween at Prospect Park Zoo: a Spooky Trail of night-time animals, extinct-animal 'tombstones', spooky science, live shows and costume photo spots.
Official site ↗📍 Dyckman House Museum
A free event at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (in Dyckman House Museum) in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 18:00–20:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 New York, NY, USA
A free event at New York in Manhattan on Saturday, October 31, 18:00–21:30. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free event at The High Line in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 17:30–19:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 213 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, USA
A free event at 213 Bowery in Manhattan on Friday, October 30, 07:30–11:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free event at Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 21:30–23:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Times Sq - 42 St, New York, NY, USA
A free event at Times Sq - 42 St in Manhattan on Friday, October 30, 11:00–22:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 155 Milton St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
A free event at 155 Milton St in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 31, 10:00–14:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Van Cortlandt Park
A free event at VCPA Learning Garden (in Van Cortlandt Park) in Bronx on Thursday, October 29, 09:00–12:00. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Sadie’s, Fulton Street, New York, NY, USA
A free event at Sadie’s in Manhattan on Thursday, October 29, 17:30–20:30. Check the organizer's page for RSVP and details before you go.
Official site ↗📍 Astoria
Launch your pumpkin from a giant slingshot or bash it in the smash zone, plus games and face painting.
Official site ↗📍 Manorville
A zoo on Wading River Rd in Manorville. In its own words: “Discover Animal Farm Petting Zoo in Manorville, NY – Long Island's original family petting zoo since 1981.” (official site)
Official site ↗📍 East Village
An East Village archive and cinema for avant-garde, experimental and rare films in an old courthouse.
Official site ↗📍 Valley Cottage
Community art celebration.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A free seasonal event at J. Hood Wright Recreation Center, J. Hood Wright Park in Manhattan, listed on the NYC Parks events calendar.
Official site ↗📍 Fort Greene
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, a Fort Greene arts center for theater, dance, opera and independent film across several historic venues.
Official site ↗📍 Pelham Bay Park
A Greek Revival mansion and gardens in Pelham Bay Park with period rooms and walking trails along the water.
Official site ↗📍 Theater District
A Theater District jazz club named for Charlie Parker, with big bands, singers and dinner seating.
Official site ↗📍 Concourse
A free contemporary art museum on the Grand Concourse focused on artists of African, Asian and Latin American descent.
Official site ↗📍 Fordham
A seasonal Saturday open-air market on Fordham Plaza with local vendors, music and community events.
Official site ↗📍 Crown Heights
The world's first museum built for children, founded in 1899, with hands-on exhibits for young kids in a bright yellow building.
Official site ↗📍 Prospect Heights
One of the country's largest art museums, with Egyptian art, Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and themed First Saturday evenings.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn Heights
A Brooklyn Heights library and museum in an 1881 landmark, with exhibitions on the borough's past.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A museum on West 83rd Street in New York. What sets it apart: interactive exhibits and programs built for kids ages 0–6 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Pelham Manor
A church-lawn fundraiser show with hundreds of antique, classic, exotic and hot-rod cars, run with the Bronx Mopars club at the corner of Pelhamdale Ave and Shore Rd.
Official site ↗📍 City Island
A small museum in an old City Island schoolhouse covering the island's sailing, shipbuilding and fishing history.
Official site ↗📍 Williamsburg
A tiny, volunteer-run Williamsburg museum of New York curiosities: subway tokens, Statue of Liberty souvenirs and other civic memorabilia.
Official site ↗📍 Coney Island
Run by the nonprofit Coney Island USA, with exhibits on the neighborhood's amusement history, plus the Coney Island Circus Sideshow and the Mermaid Parade.
Official site ↗📍 Dumbo
A curated fashion, art and design market of independent makers. Free admission, and dogs are welcome.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A nonprofit cinema on Houston Street screening independent premieres and classic film series.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing
An 1862 Romanesque Revival town hall that now hosts jazz jams, global music and dance performances in Flushing.
Official site ↗📍 Bayside
A Civil War-era fort on Little Neck Bay, with stone batteries, tunnels and waterfront views. Park rangers lead tours.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
A staff-led 45-minute walk through Bryant Park's history, design and gardens.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
A staff-led 45-minute walk through Bryant Park's history, design and gardens.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
The annual indoor holiday market inside Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, with local makers selling gifts, jewelry and crafts through Christmas Eve.
Official site ↗📍 Williamsburg
A Brooklyn brewery's taproom and rooftop in East Williamsburg, pouring creative sours and IPAs brewed on-site.
Official site ↗📍 Richmondtown
A living history village of restored buildings from the 1600s to the 1900s, with costumed demonstrations and seasonal events.
Official site ↗📍 Glen Cove
A museum on Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove. In its own words: “Founded over 25 years ago, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is the preeminent Holocaust resource on Long Island.” (official sit
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A Sixth Avenue art-house cinema with indie premieres, documentaries and cult midnight screenings.
Official site ↗📍 Nyack
Celebrate Diwali at the Nyack Center with free admission to an afternoon of Indian music, dance and art. Food is sold and optional.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A museum on Varick Street in New York. In its own words: “Learn about the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson through artifacts, historical imagery and multilayered storytelling.” (official site)
Official site ↗📍 Lighthouse Hill
A hilltop museum built like a Himalayan monastery, with a meditation garden and Tibetan and Buddhist art.
Official site ↗📍 Jersey City
Jersey City residents can pick up free leaf bags at Lincoln Park. Proof of residency is required; the city does not publish quantities or remaining stock.
Official site ↗📍 Williamsburg
Free grand-opening party for Kiehl's first Williamsburg store with giveaways, skin analyses and custom swag.
Official site ↗📍 Jamaica
The Jamaica home of Rufus King, a signer of the Constitution and an early opponent of slavery, set in a public park.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A Bleecker Street venue on the site of the old Village Gate, mixing concerts, classical music and comedy.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing
The Flushing home of Black inventor Lewis Latimer, who improved the light bulb filament, now a museum about invention.
Official site ↗📍 Riverhead
The Long Island Volkswagen Club's 24th annual all-Volkswagen car show, rescheduled to its rain date.
Official site ↗📍 Corona
The Corona home where Louis and Lucille Armstrong lived for nearly 30 years, preserved as they left it, with a center across the street.
Official site ↗📍 East Meadow
A 14-acre walk-through lights festival with illuminated creatures, a 40-foot tree and a new holiday train ride.
Official site ↗📍 NoHo
An 1832 rowhouse with its original furnishings intact, home to one family for nearly 100 years and said to be haunted.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
A Lower East Side cinema showing 35mm repertory and new releases, with a bookshop and restaurant.
Official site ↗📍 Stony Brook
A free museum program for people living with dementia and their care partners, exploring Native American history and contemporary art on Long Island.
Official site ↗📍 Columbus Circle
A Columbus Circle museum of craft, art and design, with artist studios and a restaurant overlooking Central Park.
Official site ↗📍 East Harlem
A Fifth Avenue museum about New York's past and present, with a film on the city's history and rotating exhibits.
Official site ↗📍 St. George
A museum near the ferry terminal on the former U.S. Lighthouse Service depot, telling the story of America's lighthouses.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing
A ranger-led walk about the Indigenous history of the land around Highland Park.
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
A free summer classical series on the Naumburg Bandshell, the stone shell at the end of the Central Park Mall. It is one of the oldest outdoor concert series in the park.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
A Fifth Avenue mansion museum for German and Austrian art, home to Klimt's Woman in Gold and a Viennese café.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing Meadows
A hands-on science museum built for the 1964 World's Fair, with interactive exhibits for kids and a science playground.
Official site ↗📍 Brooklyn
A museum on Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn. In its own words: “Founded in 1976, the New York Transit Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of New York’s mass transportation.” (official site)
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
A small gallery and shop inside Grand Central Terminal with exhibits on the city's subways and buses.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
New York's oldest museum, on Central Park West, covering American and city history, with Tiffany lamps and Hudson River School art.
Official site ↗📍 Long Island City
Isamu Noguchi's own museum and sculpture garden in Long Island City, a calm space of stone, wood and light.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
The first museum in the United States dedicated to posters, with shows on design, advertising and propaganda.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing
Bring your old Halloween pumpkin and smash it for compost at Queens Botanical Garden's compost yard.
Official site ↗📍 Floral Park
New York City's largest working farm, a 47-acre site with animals, orchards and seasonal events like a corn maze.
Official site ↗📍 Flushing
A 15-mile, all-day ranger-led hike across Queens parks, starting at the Unisphere.
Official site ↗📍 Staten Island
A two-hour ranger-led woodland hike in the Staten Island Greenbelt.
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
A guided walk through the wooded ravine and streams of the North Woods.
Official site ↗📍 Woodhaven
A ranger-led hike on Forest Park's wooded trails.
Official site ↗📍 Livingston
A free Urban Park Rangers walk on the grounds of Snug Harbor.
Official site ↗📍 Long Island City
A contemporary art space in a former trolley repair shop in Long Island City, with experimental shows in its brick basement galleries.
Official site ↗📍 Sleepy Hollow
Beekman Avenue closes to cars for 145+ craft and food vendors, live music, a kids’ zone and the Headless Horseman.
Official site ↗📍 West Village
A small West Village basement jazz club with sets late into the night and a friendly, musician-heavy crowd.
Official site ↗📍 DUMBO
A DUMBO theater inside a converted tobacco warehouse, known for bold international productions steps from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Official site ↗📍 Livingston
A hands-on children's museum on the Snug Harbor campus with play spaces about bugs, water and the city.
Official site ↗📍 Norwalk
A museum on West Avenue in Norwalk. In its own words: “The joy of discovery is at the heart of Stepping Stones Museum for Children in Norwalk, CT.” (official site)
Official site ↗📍 New Windsor
A art center in New Windsor. What sets it apart: large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions shown outdoors across its landscape, under open sky (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
City Parks Foundation's outdoor stage at Rumsey Playfield, where the summer season brings concerts in the park, from free shows to ticketed headliners, under the Central Park trees.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Guided tours of restored Lower East Side tenement apartments that tell the real stories of immigrant families who lived there.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
A SoHo museum devoted to drawing, from old masters to contemporary artists.
Official site ↗📍 Van Cortlandt Park
The oldest house in the Bronx, a 1748 Georgian manor in Van Cortlandt Park that George Washington used during the Revolution.
Official site ↗📍 West Village
A basement jazz club open since 1935, where legends like Coltrane and Bill Evans recorded live albums. Two sets nightly.
Official site ↗📍 Red Hook
A 1914 wooden railroad barge docked in Red Hook, now a floating museum and performance space with sweeping harbor views.
Official site ↗📍 Meatpacking
Free all-day Whitney admission on the second Sunday of the month, with family programs. Timed tickets required.
Official site ↗📍 East Flatbush
New York City's oldest building, a Dutch farmhouse from around 1652, with tours, a garden and farm programs in East Flatbush.
Official site ↗📍 Civic Center
A memorial and visitor center honoring the free and enslaved Africans buried here in the 1600s–1700s.
Official site ↗📍 West Nyack (Palisades Center)
Five 60-minute themed escape rooms, including Treasure Island, Zombie Apocalypse and Sherlock's Library.
Official site ↗📍 Douglaston
Marked woodland and wetland trails in northeast Queens.
Official site ↗📍 Rockefeller Center
Doll store with a doll hair salon and a café.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
General admission is pay-what-you-wish for NY State residents with ID. Special exhibits cost extra.
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