NYC Halloween 2025: The scary best ways to celebrate spooky season in ghoulish Gotham — all October long

Boo York, Boo York — it’s a hell of a town.

From graveyard galas to shade tours that’ll scare immoderate smarts into you, Gotham goes afloat ghoul this period — and nan 5 boroughs are crawling pinch creepy fun.

Whether you want to statement pinch nan dormant successful Brooklyn, sip potions successful SoHo, aliases moreover caput upstate to get frightened by nan Headless Horseman himself, location will beryllium nary shortage of spine-tingling ways to toast this year’s spooky season.

Forget pumpkin spice. This fall, fearfulness is connected New York’s seasonal paper — with a broadside of flair.

The Bronx is burning

Things are getting lit successful nan Boogie Down, wherever Halloween Town has landed — and Jack Skellington’s moving nan show.

Back by celebrated request for a 2nd year, nan New York Botanical Garden (2900 Southern Blvd.) has transformed into Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” Light Trail — complete pinch glowing Oogie Boogies, haunting tunnels, and capable photograph ops to capable your camera roll.

Bigger and brighter than past clip — pinch 8,300 quadrate feet of lights, projections and 3D-printed frights — this spooky-sparkly stroll is simply a autumn family nosy must.

“From nan infinitesimal you participate nan plot gates, you’re having a bully clip — the nutrient and beverages are better, location are much sculptures, lighting, and sound effects. In this wondrous situation of trails, trees, leaves and an ever-changing sky, nan ocular experience changes each night.  That’s portion of nan surprise, nan astonishment, and nan joy,” organizer Jeffrey Seller, laminitis of Adventurelive, told The Post.

Adult tickets spell for $37.50 and kids’ $27.89. But hurry — nan ghostly glow runs now done November 30.

Just down nan block, NYC’s beloved Bronx Zoo (2300 Southern Blvd.) is glowing up for autumn — literally.

Harvest Glow, which runs now done Oct. 12 and past Oct. 16-31, lights up nan nighttime pinch a dazzling way of 5,000 hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns, foggy forests, and animal-themed spectacles that’ll wow kids and parents alike.

Add successful unrecorded pumpkin carving, Wildlife Theater and moreover a moonlit Dinosaur Safari pinch 60 roaring animatronic beasts (including 11 newbies stomping successful this year), and you’ve sewage nan city’s wildest Halloween bash. Tickets are $34.95 for adults, $24.95 for kids.

Grave culture

The nosy is six feet nether astatine nan city’s astir fearsome fetes — like Nightfall, held astatine Brooklyn’s astir hauntingly beautiful landmark, Green-Wood Cemetery (Fifth Ave. and 25th St.).

On nan evenings of Oct. 16 and 17, circus acts, candlelit tales and eerie visuals will return complete nan historical grounds — tickets are $85 each.

And if you can’t make nan fun, brave souls tin participate successful after-hours strolls done monuments and moonlit pathways — ending pinch exclusive entree to nan Catacombs. That’s offered each Friday and Saturday nighttime successful October and November, for $30 a ticket.

In Manhattan, it’s ever a bully clip to delve into nan acheronian broadside of NYC history connected nan Catacombs by Candlelight circuit astatine St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral (266 Mulberry St.).

For 80 eerie minutes, brave ticketholders tin roam off-limits crypts and walled cemeteries wherever immoderate of nan city’s astir powerful figures person been laid to remainder for complete 200 years.

Part shade story, portion history instruction — nan circuit runs Thursday done Monday, now done nan extremity of nan year, starting astatine $32 — conscionable don’t show up successful costume, unless you want to beryllium exorcised from nan line.

The Haunted Valley

Think NYC’s champion haunted houses are scary? The historical Hudson Valley is location to Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Attractions — and it’s been giving nan metropolis a tally for its screams for years now.

Set adjacent trendy Kingston connected a sprawling 65-acre historical manor spot making love backmost to 1793, complete pinch foreboding woods and murky ponds, cleanable for dumping dormant bodies — nan immersive acquisition changes themes each Halloween season.

From blood-moon hayrides to Jack’s Inferno trail, Widow’s Walk and nan Glutton’s Diner & Slaughter House haunted house, this spook-fest dishes chills, thrills, and much than a fewer heart-stopping surprises — positive nan Dark Harvest Corn Maze if you dare, wherever you mightiness time off pinch much than conscionable a pumpkin.

You tin get your shriek connected each Friday done Sunday from now until Nov. 1 — for $79.81 a ticket.

If gazing astatine illuminated pumpkins is much your vibe — nan “Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze” astatine Van Cortlandt Manor successful Croton-on-Hudson is backmost for different year, bigger and brighter than ever.

With everything from life-sized dinos, a 24-foot spider web to a Pumpkin Planetarium — nan 7,000+ hand-carved gourds are lighting up an 18th-century scenery now done Nov. 16. Tickets commencement astatine $24.

Nearby, find Sleepy Hollow — sorry, Sleepy Hallow — one of nan astir haunted places successful nan nation.

Here you tin find a scope of horror-themed events centered astir Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel and moreover nan Headless Horseman himself, astatine nan Historic Hudson Valley’s Twilight Village and chilling gatherings for illustration execution mysteries and readings of Gothic classics wrong nan Sleepy Hollow Cemetery that are adjacent parts spooky and spectacular.

All events tally weekends now done Nov. 1 and summons prices alteration for each.

Scary smart

Want to study worldly while you frighten yourself silly astatine nan city’s smartest shade tours? Step into Manhattan’s spookiest portion of history this Halloween astatine nan Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. 4th St.) — home to a family that lived location for astir a century, immoderate of whom whitethorn ne'er person really left, aliases truthful it’s said.

Here, shriek queens tin ammunition retired for a circuit led by paranormal interrogator Dan Sturges — where he reveals nan latest spine-tingling findings from years of technological investigation (weekends successful October, tickets from $45 to $70).

Uptown, return a locomotion connected nan Metropolitan Museum of Art’s freakish broadside pinch Ghost Stories: A Mysterious, Macabre Tour — an interactive, globe-spanning trek done nan museum’s eeriest useful of art.

From Flying Dutchmen to funerary masks, observe nan acheronian tales and spooky secrets down pieces from Egypt, Europe, and America, and study really different cultures depicted their deepest fears each different Friday and Saturday. It’s $47.50 a ticket, chills included (100 Fifth Ave.).

And for a wickedly whimsical rotation done Brooklyn’s haunted history, hop aboard Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours — a 90-minute thrust that mixes section lore, trivia, and cheeky video interludes. Tickets tally $59–$69, truthful drawback a spot and fto nan Borough of Churches’ spooky past rotation by (meet astatine 510 Driggs Ave., Williamsburg).

Witches brews

Ready to shop until you driblet — dead? Start your spree astatine Enchantments, NYC’s oldest occult shop.

From tarot cards and spellbooks to hand-blended oils, powders and pre-made ouanga bags, this East Village staple has everything you request to summon spirits — aliases conscionable impressment your coven.

Whether you’re a funny newbie aliases a seasoned magic-wielder, nan shelves astatine 165 Avenue B are stocked pinch cautiously crafted goodies to elevate your supernatural game.

“We waste a batch of cleansing products — sage, incense, candles, oils arsenic good arsenic incense and lipid for nan season,” proprietor Stacy Rapp told The Post.

And because this clip of twelvemonth is 1 of remembrance of those who person passed distant and for putting to remainder those who passed past year, October is simply a engaged clip for nan shop, Rapp said.

Keeping pinch nan magic theme, caput to SoHo’s The Alchemist’s Kitchen astatine 119 Crosby St., a plant-based haven for herbs, potions and each things wellness.

“Fall people brings an small heart to protect, clear, and prepare,” nan store’s Ezza Valdez told The Post.

A modern witch’s wonderland, nan apothecary stocks everything from immunity-boosting herbal blends and adaptogenic mushroom powders to incense, smudge alternatives, and ceremonial herbs.

They’re besides hosting events for illustration witchcraft intensives and tarot readings this month.