This Week: Halloween is Here, Best Places to Trick-or-Treat for NYC Kids, 5 Fantastic Fall Deals
How many costumes will your kids be wearing between now and Halloween? My daughter has three outfits prepared for the many Halloween celebrations we'll be attending: Vanellope von Schweetz from Wreck-It Ralph, Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas and Michael Jackson for when she goes trick-or-treating on October 31
By now, your calendar and closet are probably as full as ours, but if you're still looking for memorable ways to celebrate, many of NYC's best FREE Halloween events take place this weekend, including the Pumpkin Festival in Central Park, Prospect Park's Haunted Walk and a bunch of kids' costume parades. You can also turn your revelry into a day trip by hitting haunted hayrides and corn mazes on Long Island, trying an off the beaten path Halloween activity in New Jersey or joining our Mommy Poppins Westchester peeps at Ridge Hill in Yonkers on Saturday for HarvestFest 2013. We'll be there with a craft table and we'll be giving out treat bags so kids can hit all the stores for candy and other goodies.
However you decide to mark Halloween this year, we wish you and your family a fun and safe holiday. And we hope the Candy Fairy makes a visit to your home to take away at least some of those sweets! Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week:
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We kicked off the week with a roundup of five great fall deals courtesy of our sponsors, including deep discounts on cool kids' theater and a family photo shoot.
Our month-long focus on Sunnyside & Woodside continued with a look at places to play in the area, including ways you can visit the members-only Sunnyside Gardens Park.
Looking for a great cultural day trip? We profiled three Westchester art museums with excellent family programming.
We rounded up the best places to trick-or-treat door-to-door in NYC on Halloween. We added a bunch of new-to-us spots this year thanks to our in-the-know readers!
Our special needs blogger, Michaela, shared some of her favorite adaptive art programs for kids in New York City.
Going to Brooklyn's Barclays Center with kids? Then our roundup of the best family-friendly restaurants near Barclays will give you a lot to chew on.
We made a return visit to the Intrepid to check out the museum's recently reopened Space Shuttle Pavilion.
Best bets for the weekend include all things Halloween as well as non-holiday fun like the opening weekend of Big Apple Circus: Luminocity and BAM Rose Cinemas' annual Puppets on Film fest.
