Events

Night two of the grand opening at METTRA, the food hall at 28-17 Jackson Avenue that used to be JACX&CO.

The park's season closing Halloween festival, with new installations by two 2026 Artist Fellows, workshops, a performance by Flying Leap, a community resource fair, a vegan food market and a dog costume contest. Free with RSVP.

Trunk-or-Treat & Halloween Festival at Culture Lab LIC's lot, organized by The Learning Center LIC. $25 per family, benefiting Make-A-Wish. 2 to 5 PM.

An afternoon-into-evening Halloween party in Hunters Point South Park, with a costume parade and contest at the Oval around 5:30 pm and The Nightmare Before Christmas on a screen at sunset.

Vernon Boulevard goes car free between 46th and 50th Avenues on Halloween afternoon for trick or treating at local businesses, with a 4 PM performance by The Only Bay All Stars.

AUNTS takes over The Chocolate Factory for Halloween: a haunted house, performance party, concert and altar, with performances by Stephanie Acosta, Holland Andrews and more. Free with RSVP.

The marathon crosses the Pulaski Bridge into Long Island City at its halfway point. The Queens side of the bridge is a favourite spot to cheer (the bridge itself is closed to spectators); expect street closures along the course.

Museum of the Moving Image opens its complete Kubrick retrospective, presented with the Criterion Collection, with the U.S. theatrical premiere of the International Version of The Shining and a conversation with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown and archivist Michael Chaiken, followed by the American cut.

Two free guided ecology walks in Hunters Point South Park with artist January Yoon Cho and Hunters Point Parks Conservancy Executive Director Jessica Sechrist, on November 1 and November 7.

A free, all ages Día de Muertos celebration at MoMI with Aztec Mexica dance, music, face painting, digital media activities and a public ofrenda.

Lucier&Rose premiere their queer musical about the Greek heroine Atalanta at Culture Lab LIC, November 5 to 8, as part of the New Works Festival. Tickets $35 to $45.

Volunteers help the Hunters Point Parks Conservancy plant more than 15,000 bulbs in Gantry Plaza State Park and Hunters Point South Park, to bloom in the parks next spring. Tools and instructions provided; sign up through the conservancy.

Flux Factory's yearly fundraiser at its Flux IV space, with a live auction of donated artworks, food and company. Proceeds go to the nonprofit's residencies, exhibitions and free public programs.

Astoria studio The Yoga Room leads a free one hour yoga class at Museum of the Moving Image on most Sundays from November 8 through December 20.

A new 50-minute dance by choreographer Neil Greenberg about working from what is at hand toward what might come next. Runs over two weeks; check the theater's site for performance dates and times.

Barkha Dance Company premieres icchā, a contemporary kathak work with original music and garba, at Culture Lab LIC, November 13 to 15. Tickets $25.

A morning meditation session in the galleries, led by ikebana teacher Anjie Cho, that pairs Noguchi's sculpture with Japanese flower arranging. Registration opens Oct 17.

Choreographer Jiemin Yang premieres Rabbit God, a dance theater work drawn from Fujian folklore, at Culture Lab LIC, November 19 to 22. Tickets from $20.

A Long Island City version of broken, a farewell piece the duo made after losing their own theater in Stavanger, about how stages can vanish. Three dates; times on the theater's site.

notAmuse Theater closes Culture Lab LIC's New Works Festival with The 8th, a bouffon show about a world without guilt, December 3 to 6. Tickets $25.