- See the previous page for Halloween in Western Queens.
A real highlight of Halloween is the Haunted House at the Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park. The one-day Children's Fall Festival is also at the museum. Come for the haunts and stay for the hayrides, sack races, treats, cider, pumpkins, pony rides, and petting zoo. Check out the Haunted House and the Amazing Maize Maze between turns on the country-western dance floor. Don't forget to wear your costumes!
- Haunted House, October 24, 25, and 31, 2008, 4-7 p.m., ages 4-12 and parents; $4 Haunted House admission; $2 hayrides, cider, and more.
- Children's Fall Festival, October 25, 2009 - 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $4, Maize Maze admission $5 adults / $3 children, $3 admission to Haunted House (in other words, it adds up fast)
- Pick-Your-Own-Pumpkin, October 3 to 31, 2009 - Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; pumpkins priced by size
- The Amazing Maize Maze is Saturdays and Sundays, September 19 - November 1, 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., $8/$5 and group rates. The Maze By Moonlight is October 10 and 17, open until 9 p.m.
- Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, NY, 718-347-3276
Fort on a Haunted Hill - Halloween Fest at Fort Totten
During the day at Fort Totten in Bayside it's the annual Halloween Festival for kids and families, including rides, arts and crafts, a pumpkin patch, games, and goodies. Wear your costumes for the costume contest.
Your teenagers will be more interested in coming back that on Halloween weekend. The Urban Park Rangers lead nightime tours of the Civil War-era fort's battery. Expect frights mixed in with a history lesson.
- Halloween Festival - October 24, 2009, noon to 4 p.m., free, see NYC Parks site; rain date is October 25
- Halloween Tour of Fort Totten Battery - October 30 and 31, 2009, 6:30 p.m., free, get there early or miss out
- Park in the lot just outside the Fort Totten on 212th St. Then walk onto the grounds or else hitch a ride on a special park trolley.
- 718-352-1769 for more info
- Fort Totten, 212th St and Bell Blvd, Bayside, NY, 11360
Ghouls at King Manor Museum
The 18th-century King Manor Museum, former home of Constitution signer Rufus King, gets overrun by ghouls and ghosts this October 24. No regular tours that day, but kids, especially in costume, will enjoy the scary stories, costume making, and more fun.
- October 24, 2009, noon - 4 p.m., free
- King Manor Museum, Jamaica Ave b/w 150th & 153rd Sts, Jamaica, 718-206-0545
Kew Gardens Pumpkin Carving Contest and Festival OOOOOh! This is a good one. It starts with a spooky walking tour of Maple Grove Cemetery; and then there's facepainting, stories, and crafts. If you are there to compete in the Pumpkin Carving Contest bring your carved pumpkin with a candle inside by 6 p.m.
- October 17, 2009, 3:30 - 7 p.m.
- Carol Lacks, 718-847-2045
- Maple Grove Cemetery, 83-15 Kew Gardens Rd, Kew Gardens, NY
Haunted Forest Park
The Urban Park Rangers go all scary with a twilight costume walk in Forest Park, listening for screech owls along a bridle path known to the stomping grounds of a headless horseman.
- October 31, 2009, 6 p.m., free
- Forest Park Visitor Center, Woodhaven Blvd and Forest Park Dr, 718-846-2731
Local branches of the Queens Library celebrate with the holiday with a few Halloween parties. See the Queens Library website for all details. There are Halloween parties, scary stories, and/or arts and crafts at the branches in Ridgewood, Hollis, Maspeth, Jamaica, Queens Village, Fresh Meadows, Bellerose, Broad Channel, Bayside, Flushing, Hillcrest, Windsor Park, Forest Hills, , and maybe more. In Flushing there's a Halloween parade through the library on October 30.
Haunted Halloween Remix at Flushing Town Hall
Halloween at Flushing Town Hall mixes together traditions of Day of the Dead, Halloween, and All Saints Day. Expect arts and crafts and treats.
- October 31, 2009, 2 p.m.
- Halloween at Flushing Town Hall
- Flushing Town Hall (Visitors Guide), 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354, 718-463-7700
- $8/$6 adult, $4 child.
