The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade on October 31–and the G-rated kids’ version– is a classic, but you can find some top-flight fright in plenty of other NYC neighborhoods this week.

Haunted houses

Midtown West
Blackout Haunted House
“You must walk through alone.” ‘Nuff said.
October 23-November 4
115 West 27th Street
$35-60

Tribeca
Blood Manor
This altogether ooky “haunted attraction” makes terrifying use of 5,000 square feet with themed rooms, crazy corridors and peculiar passageways designed to scare the daylights out of you.
October 22-November 5
163 Varick Street
$30-60

Lower East Side
Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House
A horrifying, immersive haunted house experience that plays on our obsession and fascination with serial killers both real and fictional.
September 28 - November 3
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street
$15-60

Park Slope
Warehouse of Horrors: Gowanus ‘73
The Brooklyn Lyceum is transformed into a spooky, boozy warehouse of tragedies and terrors on the streets of a grittier, dirtier, less-gentrified NYC in the 1970s of our nightmares.
October 12 - November 1
Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue
$20 tickets include three curated cocktails per person.

Creepy kids’ stuff

Battery Park City
Screamin’ Green Halloween
Saturday, October 27 noon-3pm
This year’s Screamin’ Green Halloween will bring old-fashioned fall favorites like "Bobbin' for Apples," spooky poems, wandering puppets and marching bands plus a Ghosts and Goblins Parade throughout Battery Park City, starting at 3pm.
World Financial Center Plaza, 200 Vesey Street near West Street
Saturday, October 27 noon-3pm
FREE

Soho
Annual Scholastic Store Halloween Party
This SPOOK-tacular Sunday afternoon scare fest will be held in Scholastic’s Haunted Headquarters with yoga from Karma Kids Yoga, live music, brew bubbling potions, monster cupcakes and a costume conga, plus a character appearance from Clifford and his friends.
Sunday, October 28, 3-5 PM
557 Broadway (Between Prince & Spring Streets)
$20 per child plus one adult

Upper West Side
Central Park: Bats at Belvedere
Learn about bats native to Central Park and then scan the Great Lawn’s horizon for them in this interactive lecture with Dr. Bill Schutt, local bat expert.
Friday, October 21, 5-6:30 PM (weather permitting)
Belvedere Castle (mid-Park at 79th Street)
Free, all ages welcome, no advance registration.

PhilharMONSTER
The young goblins and ghouls of the InterSchool Orchestras of New York's Carnegie Hill Orchestra (ages 8 to 12) and ISO Symphony (ages 12 to 19) perform spooky orchestral classics for the whole family. Kids and parents are encouraged to dress up in their Halloween costumes.
Sunday, Oct 28, 4 PM
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street,
$15

West Village
Childrens Museum: Halloween in the Galaxseum
Enjoy wild mask making, costume design, haunted house cardboard construction and spooky animation workshops.
October 27, 10AM-5PM
Children’s Museum of New York, 103 Charlton Street
Free