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Halloween Costume Ball The questions of how and where to revel on Halloween – and what to wear – may overwhelm, as they often do on New Year’s Eve. When options seem infinite, one reliable method of choosing is to seek an experienced guide, so you might consider going where Crystal Field goes. Ms. Field, the artistic director of Theater for the New City, has been running an annual party in the East Village since the mid-1970s, and she always rounds up an eclectic mix of performers to help celebrate.
This year the free outdoor entertainment begins at 4:30 p.m. The block of 10th Street between First and Second Avenues will be closed off for the bluegrass and jazz bands scheduled to perform while fire eaters, stilt walkers and jugglers roam. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the indoor party. While one of the theater spaces will be devoted to musical acts, including La Cumbiamba and the Hot Lavender Swing Band, an 18-piece gay orchestra, another area will house the Witches’ Cauldron, a buffet of holiday-inspired dishes created by almost 100 area restaurants. The evening will be punctuated with a variety of burlesque and cabaret acts, like Candice Burridge and David Zen Mansley in “My Little Electric Chair,” above.
The number of performers and events that Ms. Field rattled off during a telephone interview recently was staggering, but in an indication of her precise planning, she mentioned one act that begins at 9:28 p.m. Bands, food, performances; it may not sound spooky, but more traditional Halloween entertainment is on the agenda as well. Fortune tellers, witches and aura readers will circulate, and there is even a designated scary room, Ms. Field said. “It’s sort of a maze,” she explained. “It only takes one or two people at a time, and you go through this year in an electric chair. Of course it’s not a real electric chair, but you do get strapped in.”
At midnight attendees can parade past a panel of judges in the Monsters and Miracles Costume Parade. Prizes will go to winners in categories including “Most Roman Polanski,” “Most Economically Recovered” and “Most Unchanged Conservative.” But with so many options for Halloween carousal, why choose this one? “It’s the grandest Halloween celebration in the city,” Ms. Field said. “And everyone knows it.”(Saturday, 4:30 p.m. outdoors; 7:30 p.m. indoors; for indoor party, reservations are recommended, and a costume or formal attire is required; 155 First Avenue, at 10th Street, East Village; 212-254-1109, Halloween EventsCLINTON HILL ANNUAL HALLOWEEN WALK Saturday, 5 to 6:30 p.m., a trick-or-treat walk for families through this Brooklyn neighborhood, with a map of locations provided by the Society for Clinton Hill, the walks sponsor.
It meets at the Pratt-Clinton Hill Community Garden, at the corner of Dekalb and Hall Streets; Edgar Allan Poe and His Ghostly Neighbors of Greenwich Village, meeting in front of the firehouse at 84 West Third Street, south of Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village. (888) 699-2550, ghostsofny.com; each, $20 by credit card; $22 in cash ($12 and $15 for children).20091029GHOSTS OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE Saturday at 11 a.m., a walk in and around Central Park, led by Maria Dering. Meeting on Central Park West, at 71st Street, across from the Majestic Apartments. (646) 573-9509; $20; $15 for students and 65+.20091029GOTHAM CITY GHOST TOUR, Saturday at 1 and 4 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 and 2:45 p.m., covers the infamous and macabre sites of Greenwich Village. Sponsored by NYC Discovery Tours. Reservations and meeting place: (212) 465-3331. $18.20091029HALLOWEEN AT THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE Friday at 7 and 10 p.m., a screening of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, with organ accompaniment by Timothy Brumfield, followed by a puppet procession of ghouls by Ralph Lee; $20. Saturday at 10 and 11 a.m. and at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m., a Crypt Crawltour for those 12 and older; $12; $10 for students; reservations are recommended: (212) 932-7347. 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at 112th Street, Morningside Heights .20091029HALLOWEEN HISTORY AND MYSTERY TWILIGHT TOUR Friday through Sunday at 6 p.m., with stops at the grave sites of historical figures who died tragic deaths, including Olive Thomas Pickford, a Ziegfeld showgirl who is said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theater; participants should take flashlights. Sponsored by the Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery.
Reservations requested: (718) 920-1470. Woodlawn Cemetery, Jerome Avenue gate, near Bainbridge Avenue, Norwood, the Bronx ; $10; $5 for students and 65+; free for children under 6.20091029HALLOWEEN IN RICHMOND TOWN Friday, 3:30 to 5 p.m., with trick-or-treating, crafts and games; reservations required: (718) 351-1611, Ext. 281. Historic Richmond Town, 441 Clarke Avenue, near St. Patricks Place, Richmond Town, Staten Island , Lon Chaney, with organ accompaniment by Robert Ridgell, from 8 to 10 p.m.; costumes encouraged. Wall Street and Broadway, Lower Manhattan. , (212) 602-0800, bigonion.com. 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn .20091029HAPPY HALLOW MEME COSTUME PARTY Friday, beginning at 9 p.m., an Internet costume party with prizes given for the best meme (catchphrase) or viral video star (most-watched video) costumes.
Fontanas, 105 Eldridge Street, near Grand Street, Lower East Side , memeparty.tumblr.com; free.20091029MACABRE GREENWICH VILLAGE Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m., a tour that combines stops at notorious sites with stories of murders and missing people, meeting at the Washington Arch, Fifth Avenue, south of Eighth Street. Sponsored by Joyce Gold History Tours. (212) 242-5762, joycegoldhistorytours.com; $15; $12 for 62+.20091029MADAME TUSSAUDS AFTER DARK Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., an interactive tour of the darkened wax museum, with appearances by live actors for those 12 and older. (Those under 15 must be with an adult.) (800) 246-8872, nycwax.com; $20.20091029MONSTERS BALL IN DUMBO Saturday, 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., with music, food and prizes, for those 21+. Sponsored by seven Brooklyn fashion groups, including Harriets Alter Ego, the Brooklyn Circus and the Breakfast Club. No. 1 Front Street, at Water Street, Brooklyn , (718) 783-2074, free for those in costume, those dressed in black and for those who make online reservations; otherwise, $10.20091029RIVER MASQUERADE Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m., a mask-making workshop followed by a parade in celebration of the Hudson River. Wave Hill, Independence Avenue and West 249th Street, Riverdale, the Bronx , (718) 549-3200, lastritesgallery.com.2009102936TH ANNUAL GREENWICH VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE Saturday, along Avenue of the Americas, beginning at 7 p.m. at Spring Street, and continuing to 21st Street. halloween-nyc.com.200910292009 HALLOWEEN ON THE GREEN Saturday, 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., a costume party for those 21 and older, with music, dancing and food.
Tavern on the Green, inside Central Park, at West 67th Street , (917) 312-6845, tavernonthegreen.com; $60 and $130.20091029WATSON ADVENTURES HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNTS Friday, 6:30 to 9 p.m., Ghosts of Greenwich Village participants should take flashlights. Saturday, 5 to 7:30 p.m., and 8 to 10:30 p.m., Haunted Times Square Saturday, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Murder at the Met. Reservations and meeting places: (877) 946-4868. watsonadventures.com; tickets to Murder at the Met are $42.50 ($34.50 for college students).
All others are $24.50 each.20091029Museums and SitesMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK In conjunction with the exhibition The New York City 400, a celebration of the citys history and the people who have contributed to it: Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m., New York at 400: The Broadway View, a cabaret performance of music by Victor Herbert, Kurt Weill, Ira and George Gershwin and others, featuring Nancy Anderson, Joy Lynn Matthews, Howard McGillin and Jim Stanek; written and directed by Michael Montel, with musical direction by Greg Pliska; $20; $15 for students, 62+ and members (includes admission). Museum hours: Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street , (212) 534-1672, Lincoln, a two-person play about the reunion in 1906 of a former slave and a society matron who had met in 1860 at an event featuring Lincoln.
Two exhibitions will run through March 25: Lincoln and New York focuses on Lincolns life from 1860 to 1865; John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy commemorates the 150th anniversary of Browns raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. (Oct. 16, 1859). Hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (until 8 p.m. on Fridays); Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street , (212) 873-3400, bigapplefilmfestival.com. TriBeCa Cinemas, 54 Varick Street, at Laight Street ; $20 per screening program.20091029UNION SQUARE BROADWAY FESTIVAL Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., between 17th and 23rd Streets.
20091029Spoken WordCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER Monday at 6:30 p.m., a discussion about the past and present of jazz with Gary Giddins, a critic and co-author with Scott DeVeaux of Jazz, and William P. Kelly, a scholar and president of the Graduate Center; (212) 817-2005. Tuesday at 7 p.m., a performance of classical, jazz and Syrian music by Kinan Azmehs CityBand; (212) 817-7570. 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street ; both are free.20091029POEMS PINTS Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., a reading with the poets Peter Cole and Robert Polito. Sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Poetry Society of America; Fraunces Tavern, Nichols Room, 54 Pearl Street, Lower Manhattan , (212) 219-9401, ROBERT WILSON AND TONY KUSHNER ON HEINER MLLER Sunday at 6 p.m., a discussion with Mr. Wilson, a director, and Mr. Kushner, a playwright, about Mller, the German dramatist, who died in 1995. Mr. Wilson is directing a production of Quartett, Mllers adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which begins performances on Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
BAMcfe, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene , (718) 636-4100, Malcolm X Boulevard and 116th Street, Harlem. (212) 862-9561; $25.20091029HOME SWEET HOME Sunday at 2 p.m., a tour that covers the housing history of the Lower East Side, with stops at Federal-style homes, row houses, tenements, cooperatives and high-rises, meeting at the sponsor of the walk, the Museum at Eldridge Street, Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets. (212) 219-0888, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Denzel Washington and others, meeting on the northwest corner of 10th Street and Broadway. (732) 270-5559; $15.20091029IN-DEPTH WALKING TOURS Saturday at 11 a.m., Ely Jacques Kahns Art Deco New York, meeting on the southwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 45th Street,Security Accessories, Manhattan. (917) 607-9019, indepthwalkingtours.com; $20; $15 for 65+.20091029MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY Sunday at 10 a.m.,
Fancy on Fifth: From Rockefeller Center to the Plaza Hotel, a look at the transformation of the avenue from residential and social to commercial, meeting in the courtyard of the Municipal Art Society, 457 Madison Avenue, at 51st Street. (212) 439-1049, New York City Marathon, a 26.2-mile run through the citys five boroughs, beginning at 9:40 a.m. at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island, then going through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, ending at Tavern on the Green in Central Park.
Athletes in wheelchairs begin the run at 8:20 a.m., followed by athletes with disabilities at 8:45 a.m. and professional female runners at 9:10 a.m. Registration is closed. Viewing areas: in Brooklyn, along Fourth Avenue, beginning at 92nd Street in Bay Ridge; in Queens, along 44th Drive from Vernon Boulevard to Queensboro Plaza, Long Island City; in Manhattan, along First Avenue, from 59th Street to the Willis Avenue Bridge, and Fifth Avenue, from 135th to 90th Streets; in the Bronx, 138th Street to the Madison Avenue Bridge, in the Mott Haven section. It will be broadcast on WNBC (Channel 4) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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