Celebrate Halloween 2016 IN NYC

0037 Photo by Liz Ligon — Haunted Highline; photo by Liz Ligon

As Halloween approaches, we’ve rounded up a sampling of ghoulish gatherings in NYC for trick-or-treaters of all ages!

October 28

Asphalt Screams at Asphalt Green: Head to Asphalt Green’s Upper East Side or Battery Park City campus for a Halloween-themed fitness experience for all ages, including a “Spooktacular Soccer Shootout” and a Haunted Maze, plus music, refreshments, and more. Free, though a $20 donation per family is welcome, 4-6pm, asphaltgreen.org

October 29

Ghouls and Gourds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Take part in Brooklyn’s wackiest Halloween parade at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden! Kids will hop at the chance to dance with woodland creatures from Mettawee River Theatre Company and learn all about creepy crawly bugs at Dr. Rutledge’s Insectorium. $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, free for 12 and under; 12-5:30pm, bbg.org

Haunted High Line: Learn all about the history of the West Side of Manhattan at this free celebration. Hear the stories of the old trains that used to rumble along those tracks from the Westside Cowboy, and enjoy face painting, a scavenger hunt, dancing, and live music! Free, 11am-3pm, thehighline.org

LC Trick-or-Treat: Bring your little ghouls and goblins to Lincoln Center, where a festive Halloween celebration will take over their plazas—filled with costumes, candy, live performances, and more. Free, 11am-1pm, family. lincolncenter.org

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October 30

Central Park Halloween Parade and Pumpkin Flotilla: Head to Central Park for a costume parade and pumpkin float on the Harlem Meer. This year’s event will feature a live bat demonstration presented by the Organization for Bat Conservation, and a craft project hosted by Martha Stewart Living. Free, crafts and music begin at 3:30pm and the Flotilla begins at 6:30pm, centralparknyc.org

DiMenna Creepy History Museum Historical Halloween Ball: Celebrate the ghosts of Halloweens past at the New-York Historical Society. This year’s edition of their annual Halloween event will feature scary storytelling, historical candy, fortune telling, and even spirit photography! $10 for members or tickets bought online, $12 at the door, 4-6pm, nyhistory.org

October 31

American Museum of Natural History Halloween Celebration: More than 30 of the AMNH’s halls will be open for be trick-or-treating and arts and crafts for the kids, so come in costume! Characters including Clifford the Big Red Dog, Curious George, and Peter Rabbit will be in attendance, as well as magicians, stilt walkers, and even performers from the Big Apple Circus! $14 for general public, $12 for members; 4-7pm, amnh.org

Greenwich Village Halloween Parade: Those in costume are invited to join hundreds of puppets, thousands of costumed New Yorkers, plus bands, dancers, and artists as they march up Sixth Avenue during country’s most creative public participatory event! Line-up for those in costume only runs from 6:30-8pm. Free, 7pm, halloween-nyc.com

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Aviator Sports Summer Day Camp

Aviator Sports Summer Day Camp offers five daily rotating activities such as swimming, ice skating gymnastics, rock climbing, parkour, indoor/outdoor turf, and courts plus more in its ample 175,000 sq. ft. facility and 35-acre outdoor area. Aviator Summer Camp also offers off-site and on-site field trips such as a day at Green Meadows Farm, Launch Trampoline Park, and a Brooklyn Cyclones game. The summer camp runs from 9 am-5 pm with early drop off and late stay available. Bus transportation is also available throughout Brooklyn. Lunch and an afternoon snack are included. Sign up by February 28th to receive up to $300 off camp with early bird discounts.

The Language Workshop For Children

After offering both group and private lessons for many years and analyzing the results over&nbsp;time, The&nbsp;Language Workshop for&nbsp;Children, founded&nbsp;in1973, has decided&nbsp;to emphasize private remote lessons at shorter intervals.&nbsp;Our skilled educators&nbsp;will&nbsp;focus their attention exclusively on the&nbsp;unique needs, learning style, and interests of your child.&nbsp;This allows a&nbsp;bond&nbsp;to develop&nbsp;between teacher and student, which&nbsp;has been&nbsp;shown to&nbsp;drastically improve retention.&nbsp; OUR METHOD&nbsp; Developed by the pioneers of language education for children, our programs bring decades of&nbsp;experience to your living room with individualized, active language classes. Each lesson is based on proven methods and materials perfected to capture your&nbsp;child&rsquo;s attention during the ages when he/she absorbs information the fastest. &nbsp;&nbsp; While other online language classes rely on videos for passive learning, we deliver interactive, and engaging lessons with native-fluent teachers. In addition, all our teachers are certified in the Thibaut&nbsp;Technique which has been featured&nbsp;in the New York&nbsp;Times, the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal, and many other well-respected&nbsp;publications.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our short one-on-one lessons give kids the chance to focus, hear pronunciation clearly, and practice speaking in their target language.  THE PROCESS&nbsp; First, students have a short meeting with our Director&nbsp;Francois&nbsp;Thibaut, in&nbsp;English, with&nbsp;their parent(s)&nbsp;present.&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut&nbsp;will determine&nbsp;the best course of study, including&nbsp;class length and&nbsp;frequency, the&nbsp;right&nbsp;teacher, lesson&nbsp;format and materials (or action games for younger students.) Then the learning&nbsp;begins!&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut will continually check in on your child&rsquo;s learning to assure they are getting the most&nbsp;of&nbsp;their&nbsp;classes.&nbsp; OTHER OFFERINGS&nbsp; We can also help your child prepare for: the French subject tests for SAT, AP &amp; CLEP, the European DELF/DALF, the Canadian TEF and other standardized testing, college entry exams, studying or traveling abroad,&nbsp;cultural changes when moving abroad,&nbsp;and much more!&nbsp; &nbsp;

Asphalt Green

Asphalt Green&rsquo;s high-quality sports programs start at 4 months old. Two beautiful facilities in vibrant Manhattan neighborhoods provide the optimal space for children to learn the fundamentals, play for leisure, or compete at the highest level. As the leading sports and fitness facility in Manhattan, Asphalt Green&rsquo;s never-before- seen training methods focus on improving your mental and physical game. Whether participating in swim, soccer, flag football, martial arts, basketball, baseball, tennis, or volleyball, coaches instill values that set athletes up for success in life and bring out their full potential in sports.