Halloween 2026 around New York City: press sheet

A few local picks to check out

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23 Halloween events around New York City are on BooMap, each with its 2026 dates checked on the event's own website.

## What families can find

• 5 pumpkin patches & corn mazes
• 4 family Halloween events
• 1 trunk-or-treats
• 3 fall festivals
• 7 ghost tours
• 3 haunted houses

Pumpkin patches and corn mazes already open by Oct. 1: 5, including Amazing Maize Maze (Queens); Hicks Nurseries Fall Festival (Westbury); Harvest Moon Farm Fall Festival (North Salem); and 2 more.

Not-scary picks for little ones (suggested all ages, 1–2 of 5 ghosts): Amazing Maize Maze (Queens); Batty Over Halloween Celebration (Queens); Boo at the Zoo (Bronx); Brick-or-Treat (Goshen); Demarest Farms Pick-Your-Own Pumpkins (Hillsdale); and 7 more.

Free events: Batty Over Halloween Celebration (Queens); Hicks Nurseries Fall Festival (Westbury); Ocean Breeze Fall Festival (Staten Island); The Great Pumpkin Spooktacular (Bronx).

Trick-or-treat hours: no town around New York City has announced official 2026 hours yet. BooMap adds them as towns announce. (Halloween is Saturday, Oct. 31.)

On BooMap's national list of the 10 Most Unique Halloween Events: #3 The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze.

## The Boo Awards (fan vote, Oct. 1–25)

Fans vote for New York City's Best Pumpkin Patch, Best for Little Goblins, Boo's Hidden Gem (small, local events only), Most Fun Overall and Most Likely to Make You Scream. One vote per category per day; winners are announced Oct. 27.

Vote: https://boomap.app/nyc/vote

## Links

• City guide: https://boomap.app/nyc
• About BooMap and the press kit: https://boomap.app/press

## Story ideas

• "We mapped every Halloween event around New York City": where to go this weekend, by age and scare level.
• Trick-or-treat on a Saturday: what it means for families (and the towns that set official hours).
• Boo's Hidden Gem: the small, local events fans are rallying behind.

## Spokespeople

• Andrew Ward, creator of BooMap (his company, Toronado Entertainment, makes BooMap and Noelly); also SVP of 10 Lives Studios and a film and TV producer. As a 7th grader he built a six-room haunted house in a borrowed tent in his family's driveway, staffed by neighborhood volunteers. Recent work: the Katy Perry Lifetimes Tour concert film, a Peter Frampton documentary, Hollywood Vampires: Unleashed Spirits. producinghollywood.com
• Kristen Moss, reality TV casting director and BooMap spokesperson; a mom of two whose daughter is going as a red raptor dinosaur this year. kmosscasting.com

Media contact: hello@boomap.app