This Weekend in Parks
Photo by Daniel Avila
Whether you're brave enough to go on a haunted tour, curious enough to learn about the roots of this spooky holiday, or creative enough to craft a fancy pumpkin you've plucked from one of our patches, we've got an event for you.
It’s that time again for the ING New York City Marathon! Come join the masses of spectators to cheer on these athletes in this exhilarating event. On Sunday, November 1, the runners will take their mark in Staten Island at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and continue the road race through Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan.
Saturday, October 31
A History of Halloween
11:00 a.m.
Blue Heron Park Preserve, Staten Island
Upper River Run: Thriller on the Bronx River
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Bronx Park, Bronx
Halloween Walk & Fairytale Forest
2:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Owl's Head Park, Brooklyn
Halloween Haunted House
4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Queens County Farm Museum, Queens
Spine Tingling & True: Ghost Stories of the Merchant's House Museum
7:00 p.m.
Merchant's House Museum, Manhattan
Sunday, November 1
Fall Colors
11:00 a.m.
Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island
Truths and Myths of Creepy Crawlers Creatures
12:30 p.m.
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Catapult Month: Pumpkin Chucking
1:00 p.m.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Fall Foliage
2:00 p.m.
Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
An Amble in the Autumn Amber with Paul Sadowski of the NY Mycological Society
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
QUOTATION FOR THE DAY
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
Emily Dickinson
(1830 – 1886)
Happy Halloween!