The outdoor event season for families will run through Halloween, with festivals celebrating music, dance, art, and more, plus block parties and street fairs in our neighborhoods. Check back here as we add more kid-friendly outdoor events for the fall season!
Saturday October 25 | 11am-3pm | Register here | FREE
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative is hosting Greenway Stomp, a free, open-to-the-public fall festival at the Naval Cemetery Landscape. The celebration will feature live bluegrass music, food, and fun activities for all ages. Plus, there’s a children’s costume parade at 1:00pm! Costumes for all are encouraged!
Saturday October 25 | 11am-3pm | FREE
Dyker Heights is hosting a Halloween street festival on 11th Ave. between 66th & 67th Streets, complete with a costume contest at 1pm!
Saturday, October 25 | 11:30am-1:00pm | FREE
Dress up and join us for a fun fall festival! The party will include Halloween activities at the park house and ball field.
Saturday, October 25 | 12-4pm | FREE
Join for the Annual McGolrick Dogs Halloween Parade and Costume Contest, with prizes for the best-dressed pup and owners! Meet at the McGolrick Pavilion at 12pm. The parade will start at 12:15pm, followed by the costume contest.
Saturday, October 25 | 12pm | FREE
The Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest is Brooklyn’s largest and longest-running dog competition! The event will take place at the bottom of the Fort Greene Park monument stairs. Register your dog here! $20 spots are limited and sell out, so make sure you register early. No walk-up, on-site registration will be available. As always, the show is free to watch. Rain date: Sunday, October 26. Stay in Fort Greene Park after the contest for Halloween Fest!
Saturday, October 25 | 12-4pm | RSVP here | FREE
Dress up in your best costumes and enjoy spooky stories, haunted music, face painting, family-friendly games, and more! Rain date: Sunday, October 26.
Saturday, October 25 | 2-4pm | FREE
Join for trick-or-treating on 5th Avenue in Sunset Park from 39th to 44th Street! There will be Halloween fun for the whole family.
Saturday, October 25 | 2-7pm | FREE
Join for a Halloween Block Party on St. James Place between Gates & Greene. The party is hosted bay Saint James Joy, a father-son DJ duo composed of DJ Jo Vill and DJ Chill. Bring candy for the neighborhood kids!
Saturday, October 25 | 4-7pm | FREE
Brooklyn Bridge Parents is partnering with the 5th Avenue BID to bring you Halloween Fest, a spooktacular free block party taking over 10 car-free blocks of 5th Avenue from 72nd to 85th Street on Saturday, October 25th from 4–7 PM. Celebrate the season with free kids activities, including a bouncy house, pumpkin decorating, “Trunk-or-Treat,” a puppet show, haunted trucks, music, crafts, and so much more!
Sunday, October 26 | 10am-3pm | FREE
Save the Date for Brooklyn FAM’s 5th Annual Flagship Festival at the Prospect Park Boathouse! This year’s family-friendly festival celebrates our African and Asian diasporic voices with puppet theatre, music, dance, community music-making, mixed media crafting, Malian & Japanese indigo dyeing, aromatherapy, and lots of giveaways.
Sunday, October 26 | 11am-6pm | FREE
Court Street Spectacular Street Fair–located between Atlantic Avenue and Joralemon Street –is Brooklyn’s last big street festival of the year! Take a stroll down Court Street and visit the merchants and vendors, good eats, and kiddie rides on Court Street.
Friday, October 31 | 2-5pm | FREE
Don your Halloween best for a Halloween party hosted by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and City Point in Abolitionist Place! There will be tunes by DJ Mike Doelo, a Halloween parade, a puppetry show by Nate Puppets, and a dance-off with Labubus!
Friday October 31 | 2:30pm-6:30pm | FREE
Join Friends of McGolrick Park for their annual Halloween celebration in Greenpoint. There will be games, dancing, candy, and a children’s parade!
Friday, October 31 | 3-7pm | FREE
Celebrate Halloween in Bed-Stuy with Trick or Streets. Pick up your Trick or Streets bag & bingo card at Marcy Plaza, trick or treat at 40+ local businesses and collect stamps, then return to Marcy Plaza to enter a raffle for exciting prizes. There will also be free books, photo giveaways, live DJ music, and more at Marcy Plaza.
Friday, October 31 | 4:00-4:30pm | FREE
The Cobble Hill Halloween Parade will once again be led by the Brass Queens. Music starts in Cobble Hill Park at 3:30pm, and the parade leaves from the Congress Street entrance exactly at 4pm. After the parade, stick trick-or-treating in Cobble Hill!
Friday, October 31 | 4pm March to the Arch | 4:30-7:00pm Dumbo Archway Party | 6pm Howl-o-Ween | 4-7pm Trick or Treating | FREE
Dumboween brings hundreds of costumed Dumbonians out for our Annual March to the Arch through Brooklyn Bridge Park with brass bands + puppets, followed an Archway Party featuring crafts with Creatively Wild Art Studio, a photobooth, and of course, candy! Plus, trick-or-treat at 50+ Dumbo small businesses around the neighborhood!
Friday, October 31 | 4-7pm | FREE
Join for BAM’s annual Halloween block party, with candy giveaways, carnival games, arts and crafts, and more. Come and costume and meet outside the Peter Jay Sharp Building.
Friday, October 31 | 6:00-8:30pm | FREE
Dress up in your best costume and join in the annual Park Slope Civic Council Halloween Parade! The parade begins at 14th Street and 7th Avenue, then heads north on 7th Avenue, turning left on 3rd Street and ending in J.J. Byrne Playground at the Old Stone House.
Saturday, November 1 | 9am-5pm
Bring the kids, come in your Halloween costume or your coolest western look! Enjoy horse rides, roller skating, live music, and a few surprises you won’t want to miss!
Saturday, November 1 | 11am-4pm | FREE
Join for a family-friendly Día de Todos Los Santos Block Party, hosted by Cafecito Social and St. Lydia’s. There will be an all-ages drag makeup demo, storytime with Drag Artists for Expression NYC, kite-making with Powerhouse Arts, stretching with Good Time Pilates, plus live music, arts and crafts, and an altar to honor loved ones.
Saturday, November 1 | 4-7pm | Register here | FREE
Discover the history and traditions of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) through family-friendly crafts, performances, music, activities, and food.
Saturday, November 8 | 10am-3pm | FREE
Plymouth’s Yankee Fair will span the entire Plymouth Church campus and Orange Street, with free kids activities, shopping for treasures, trinkets, books, culinary delights, handcrafted gifts, and more!
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Updated: October 30, 2025. Main photo: Playtopia @ Atlantic Antic.
