{"id":366098,"date":"2026-10-06T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366098\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:48:10","slug":"mayor-mamdani-announces-fall-festivals-and-halloween-events-at-parks-and-recreation-centers-across-all-five-boroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366098\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani Announces Fall Festivals and Halloween Events at Parks and Recreation Centers Across all Five Boroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan: Hallowscream Fright Walk and Fall Festival<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/2026\/10\/16\/hallowscream-fright-walk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fright Walk<\/a>: Friday, October 16, 4 \u2013 7 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/2026\/10\/17\/hallowscream-fright-walk-fall-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Festival and Fright Walk<\/a>: Saturday, October 17, 12 \u2013 3 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJ. Hood Wright Recreation Center and Park<\/p>\n<p>Families can enjoy Hallowscream, a two-day haunted house featuring elaborate sets, themed rooms and costumed characters. On Saturday, the event will also feature a family-friendly fall festival with a pumpkin patch, bounce houses, arts and crafts, jumbo games and other seasonal activities.<\/p>\n<p>The event typically attracts up to 1,400 attendees. The haunted house will continue indoors in the event of rain, while the outdoor festival will be rescheduled as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is required.<\/p>\n<p>Bronx: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/2026\/10\/17\/williamsbridge-fall-fiesta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williamsbridge Fall Fiesta: Where Memories Take Flight!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWilliamsbridge Oval Recreation Center<\/p>\n<p>Families can enjoy pumpkin decorating, autumn-themed arts and crafts, carnival games, face painting, a Mad Science demonstration, a pumpkin patch, a pumpkin-weight guessing contest with prizes and a dog costume parade.<\/p>\n<p>The event is expected to welcome approximately 600 attendees. In the event of rain, it will be rescheduled for October 24.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is not required.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/2026\/10\/24\/2026-ocean-breeze-fall-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Breeze Fall Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 24, 10 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOcean Breeze Athletic Complex<\/p>\n<p>Families can enjoy a pumpkin patch, DJ, food trucks, arts and crafts, inflatables, interactive games, rides and entertainment. The festival will also feature the Ocean Breeze Youth Cross Country Spooktacular, a fall competition for young athletes ages 7\u201317.<\/p>\n<p>The event typically attracts more than 1,500 attendees and will move indoors in the event of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is not required.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/2026\/10\/30\/haunted-house-and-hallow-gala1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haunted House and Hallow Gala<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 30, 3 \u2013 7 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nShirley Chisholm Recreation Center<\/p>\n<p>Families can enjoy a spooky carnival, haunted house, arts and crafts, games, music, pumpkin decorating and costume and dance contests. The event is part of HalloWeek, a weeklong celebration with activities including karaoke, a pool movie, silent disco and additional haunted house programming.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of rain, the Hallow Gala will move indoors.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is not required.<\/p>\n<p>Queens: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/2026\/10\/30\/mad-monster-lab-haunted-house-fall-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Monster Lab Haunted House and Fall Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 30, 4 \u2013 8 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBowne Park Field House<\/p>\n<p>Families can enjoy a pumpkin patch, seasonal arts and crafts, active games, inflatables, popcorn and Halloween-themed music before the indoor haunted maze opens for those ready for a spooky challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of rain, the haunted house will continue as scheduled, while the outdoor festival will be moved to November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is not required.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/events\/fall-festivals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Parks website<\/a> for more information on fall festivals and events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"&#9;text-align: center;&#10;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan: Hallowscream Fright Walk and Fall Festival Fright Walk: Friday, October 16, 4 \u2013 7 p.m.&#13; Fall Festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-366098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}