Mayor Eric Adams introduced “Halloween at Gracie Mansion 2023,” a two-day celebration that may remodel the out of doors grounds of historic Gracie Mansion right into a “haunted” Halloween-themed expertise for a gaggle of younger New Yorkers. Along with Halloween decorations, the occasion will provide company the chance to trick-or-treat, greet costumed characters, and go to a corn maze and haunted cemetery.
Halloween at Gracie Mansion 2023” will happen on Saturday, October 28, 2023, and Sunday, October 29, 2023. The occasion — geared in direction of kids between six and 10 years previous — is predicted to welcome between 1,200 and 1,500 company to the garden at Gracie Mansion every day to benefit from the Halloween festivities. Youngsters are inspired to put on costumes. Since launching in 2014, Gracie Mansion’s Halloween celebration has welcomed hundreds of kids for a protected and enjoyable Halloween expertise.
“I’m assured that once we open ‘The Folks’s Home,’ New Yorkers will lastly imagine me concerning the ghosts floating round right here,” mentioned Adams. “Halloween is a good alternative for New Yorkers to spend time of their communities, and that’s why we’re inviting our metropolis’s residents to rejoice on the haunted — we imply historic — grounds of Gracie Mansion.”
To assist all New Yorkers get pleasure from Halloween this 12 months, Adams has put aside tickets for roughly 300 households within the New York Metropolis Division of Homeless Providers shelter system and asylum searching for households. The remaining tickets will likely be free and distributed on a first-come, first-served foundation. Members of the general public can join the ticket giveaway on-line proper now.