Your Guide to Halloween in LIC 2023

Wednesday, October 25, 5-7 p.m. - Renew Queens hosts a free fall festival for children in LIC. Families and kids of all ages are invited to enjoy party games, painting faces, prizes, snacks, and making friends in the neighborhood. Mark your calendars and bring your costumes. Details

Thursday, October 26, 8 p.m. - Enjoy a special Halloween edition 730 Comedy Show featuring comics, along with magicians, spooky drink specials, an after party and prizes for the best costume at Jungly. Details

Friday, October 27

All Day - Court 16 hosts a Halloween tennis and pickleball party for families. Players should wear costumes they can safely move in. This includes tennis shoes, having your hands free to grip the racquet, and unobstructed vision. Tennis instruction will be offered for kids ages 2.5 & up. Parents can learn and play pickleball, too. Details

3:30-7 p.m. - NY Kids Club's Halloween spooktacular features an open play in the gym, fun thematic art projects, a sing-a-long and face painting. Your little trick-or-treaters will have fun showing off their costumes and their favorite moves during our disco dance party in the gym. Details

8 p.m. - Enjoy a Punk Rock Halloween Party with Astoria Music Collective at Alewife Brewing with 'Spookalicious,' a special Halloween beer, along with a cash prize for the best costume. Details

Saturday, October 28

10 a.m.-1 p.m. - Get your scare on with Snapology’s Monster Mania Workshop. Students will create their own Jack O’Lanterns, as well as haunted scenes that will engage student’s creativity and problem solving as they work with increasingly difficult and complex challenges. Costumes encouraged. Details

12-5 p.m. - Socrates Sculpture Park's annual Halloween Harvest Festival is back with the 3rd annual “Flight of the Gourds” pumpkin carving contest and compost catapult as well as New York’s 2nd largest dog costume contest presented by Chateau le Woof. Details

2-4 p.m. - Come get creative with Art Strong NYC and paint a pumpkin to take home, enjoying food and drinks from Focal Point Beer Co. while you create. Details

3 p.m. - Join Two the Moon for Halloween cookie decorating. Halloween shows will play and snacks and beverages are provided. Details

4-8:30 p.m. - Hunters Point Parks Conservancy hosts a Halloween Festival in Hunter's Point South Park. Starting at 4 p.m., there will be Halloween activities for families, costume contests and parades for pets and kids, concluding with a screening of the original Hocus Pocus at 6:30 p.m. Frank Ottomanelli's by the Water will also have themed cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks available for sale at the event. Details

6-8 p.m. - It's time for Dozo Dog LIC's first Halloween Pawty with photo-ops, spooky music and lighting, a Halloween costume contest with prizes and treats & sweets for pups and humans. Details

6 p.m.-12 a.m. - Play in a haunted Halloween coed 4s tournament at QBK Sports. Details

7-10 p.m. - It's time to celebrate the spooky season with a Teens Night Out - Halloween edition from Gantry Kids & Teens with a scary movie and piping-hot pizza. Details

8 p.m. - Join Jungly for a spooky Halloween night bash with a live DJ, costume contest and eerie treats. Details

8 p.m. - Join Cucala Dance Company for its Halloween social with an open bar, performances, costume contest and a lot of fun dancing. Details

Sunday, October 29

9:30 + 11 a.m. - Two the Moon invites children ages 1.5+ to a Halloween sensory bin class with snacks and beverages provided. Halloween costumes encouraged. Details

2-5 p.m. - NYC Second Chance Rescue hosts a Howl-o-ween adoption event at Focal Point Beer Co. with a spooktacular list of adoptable doggos. Details

2:30-5:30 p.m. - Join The QPD for a neighborhood Halloween block party filling the fun cavity of the year with trick-or-treating, a bouncy house and fun activities by local businesses. Details

3-5 p.m. - Bring your furry friends to the annual Fifth Hammer Brewing Company Howl-oween Dog Costume Parade & Contest in their best Halloween get ups. Details

Tuesday, October 31

All Day - Enter your dog in Dogtopia of LIC's dog costume contest, winner gets a free week of day care. Details

3-5 p.m. - Enjoy spooky stores with Halloween face painting at Earth Angel Crystal. Kids who dress up will receive a Crystal-filled Halloween goody bag. Details

5 p.m. - 12 a.m. - M. Wells turns into a Halloween Hub with activities, entertainment and inspiration for the kiddies and biggies alike. Bring your posse or just yourself for a ghoulishly good evening on Crescent Street in LIC. Feel free to take our cues with 'Queens' as this year's costume idea. Food and drinks offered separately. The party is from 5-12 midnight and children and families are encouraged 5-8 p.m. Details

6-8 p.m. - Enjoy an adult Halloween costume contest at Earth Angel Crystal. Winner will have the opportunity to spin the crystal wheel and see what prize they win! Prizes may include free crystals, free tickets to any event hosted at Earth Angel Crystal, free one month membership to the Earth Angel Crystal Club or 50% off any healing service. Details

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We have been informed that this year's Halloween in LIC parade has been canceled. Please visit our website for additional Halloween happenings in LIC.

Raise a Glass One More Time at Big aLICe Brewing's LIC Taproom

Big aLICe Brewing is closing its LIC taproom after this weekend. Enjoy events this week as they wrap things up:

• Thursday, Oct. 26 - Tapping Fistful of Rubies - 100% NYS Kettle Sour aged three+ months in freshly dumped Dr. Frank red wine barrels on NYS cherries.
• Friday, Oct. 27 - Live music by Hurt, Dom, and Bull from 6-8 p.m. and tapping The Many Lives of our Lives - Gold Medal winner of 2020 Great American Beer Festival Fruited Wood and Barrel Aged Sour Beer. This exclusive beer is aged in red wine and neutral oak barrels with NYS Cherries and Blueberries.
• Sunday, Oct. 29 - Raise a glass with Big aLICe Brewing to pay tribute to where it all began! Details