{"id":380022,"date":"2026-10-22T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380022\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:10:46","slug":"astoria-anime-fest-things-to-do-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380022\/","title":{"rendered":"Astoria Anime Fest | Things to do in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close out\u00a0Halloween weekend with anime, gaming and cosplay at the first-ever Astoria Anime Fest.\u00a0The free, family-friendly festival is taking over 31st Avenue Open Streets (between 34th and 35th St) on November 1 from 1 to 5pm. The Queens gathering will feature local artists and vendors, games, crafts, community activities and special guests, including Queens Public Library and NYC-based Japanese abstract calligrapher Taisan Tanaka, who will lead an interactive calligraphy experience. Costumes are encouraged, so come dressed as your favorite anime character or just\u00a0be ready to geek out.<\/p>\n<p>RSVPs are encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close out\u00a0Halloween weekend with anime, gaming and cosplay at the first-ever Astoria Anime Fest.\u00a0The free, family-friendly festival is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,1739,9,24,63,129,131,130,904],"class_list":["post-380022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380022","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=380022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}