MMPCIA Presents the First Annual Mount Morris Park Halloween Extravaganza, Saturday, October 31 from 1 to 7 PM!

The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association has teamed up with the Harlem Library, The Jericho Project, The Neighbors of W121 Street, and local businesses—Chez Luciennne, Melba’s, Nectar, Society Cafe, Tonni’s Minis, N Boutique, Harlem Park-to-Park and Settepani—to provide an afternoon of old-fashioned Halloween fun for the neighborhood kids—and the perennial young at heart.

Here’s what’s brewing for the day:

1 PM: Mask Designing (all ages welcome) and  Story Telling for the toddlers, in the Harlem Library, 9 West 124 Street.

1-2 PM: Costume Contest Registration*. Sign up across the street from the Harlem Library, 9 West 124 Street. Categories include Children, Teenagers, Adult Women, Adult Men–and Dogs! There will be lots of fun prizes awarded to the winners.

2 PM: Halloween Parade will begin in front of the Harlem Library, 9 West 124 Street, and will follow the lead of the Grand Marshall, Chief Phillip Banks from NYPD Northern Manhattan. The spooky group will make its way in and around Marcus Garvey Park to the judging table for the Costume Contest on Mount Morris Park West and West 122 Street.

3 PM: Costume Contest! Mount Morris Park West and West 122 Street

2:30-4:30 PM, Halloween Fun Stations will be set up on the closed portion of Mount Morris Park West (MMPW) between West 122 and West 123 Streets. These stations will include Mummy Wrap, Balloon Sculpting, Face Painting, and more!

4-7 PM: Spooky Haunted House will open at The Jericho Project, 2013 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd (ACPB) and West 121 Street.

5-7 PM: Trick-or-Treating Around Mount Morris Park! The kids will enjoy climbing up and down the stoops to fill those loot bags! Click here for the list of participating houses.

For a pdf version of the schedule of events, click here.

All events are offered free to the neighborhood residents.