Brooklyn’s outdoor festival season runs all the way to the holiday lights, and the best stretch of it is still ahead. From Noche de Tambores under the DUMBO Archway to the Ragamuffin Parade down Third Avenue, the Atlantic Antic and the Third Avenue Festival on the same Sunday, a run of Halloween festivals and the first tree lighting of the season, here’s your guide to the street fairs, cultural celebrations and open-air events worth putting on the calendar.
Brooklyn Flea
Saturdays + Sundays | DUMBO Archway | April–December | FREE
The beloved vintage and makers market is back under the Manhattan Bridge arch at 80 Pearl Street in DUMBO, running weekends through December. brooklynflea.com
Brooklyn Museum on Wheels
May–October | Various Brooklyn Neighborhoods | FREE
The Brooklyn Museum’s Airstream-housed mobile arts initiative returns for its 2026 season — traveling to seven Brooklyn neighborhoods from May through October with hands-on art-making, cultural storytelling, games, and pieces from the museum’s teaching collection. Free and open to the public; activities are first come, first served. Brooklyn Bridge Parents is a partner on the season’s opening stop. Full info here.
- October 4 — Atlantic Avenue: at Atlantic Antic / Playtopia, with manga-inspired programming threaded through one of Brooklyn’s biggest street fairs. This stop moved with the Antic, which was postponed from September 27.
- October 24 — Kensington: at the Day of the Dead Parade, joining Casa Cultural’s community-led celebration of remembrance and ritual.
Summer at Domino Park 2026
June–September | Domino Park, Williamsburg Waterfront | FREE
Two Trees has unveiled Domino Park’s 2026 summer lineup — a season of free public events across Domino Square, Flex Field, and the Williamsburg waterfront, anchored by the return of the Sugar Sugar! performance series, plus live music, wellness classes, family programming, and Movies in the Square. Full calendar at dominopark.com/events.
- Through September 27 — Don Juan (Molière in the Park): previewed on the square in August; the free run at the LeFrak Center in Prospect Park has been extended through Sunday, September 27 — most performances at 7 pm, weekend matinees at 2 pm, RSVP requested at prospectpark.org.
- Throughout the season — Sunrise & Sunday Yoga, Summer Fitness Series, Croquet on the Field, Salsa by the Water, Típico P’al Pueblo, Sunset Sessions, Meet the Beekeeper, Craft Nights, Dominoes Socials with Capicu!, and GrowNYC’s Greenmarket on Sundays.
Summer at the Terminal — Brooklyn Army Terminal
June–October | Sunset Park Waterfront | FREE
The 2026 “Summer at the Terminal” series transforms NYCEDC’s 59-acre Brooklyn Army Terminal campus in Sunset Park into a free public destination — waterfront food festivals, outdoor films, community markets, cultural heritage celebrations, and family days running June through October. Full schedule here.
- October 4 (moved from September 27), 2–8pm — Hispanic Heritage Waterfront Festival: in partnership with the Sunset Park Empowerment Center, honoring Hispanic cultures through art, music, and culinary traditions.
- October 31, 2–7pm — Día de Los Muertos Celebration: at the BAT Arches rather than Ferry Plaza Park, with ArtBuilt and Casa Cultural — a communal ofrenda, crafts table, face painting, live music and performances.
Brooklyn Bridge Park 2026 Festivals & Special Events
May–October | Brooklyn Bridge Park | FREE
Brooklyn Bridge Park has unveiled its 2026 lineup of festivals and special events — free, family-friendly programming spanning the waterfront from Pier 1 to Pier 6, with everything from outdoor screenings to the fall Harvest Festival. Full calendar at brooklynbridgepark.org/events.
- Harvest Festival | Saturday, October 17, 11 am–3 pm — the free seasonal closer, at Pier 6, with live music, arts and crafts, storytelling, lawn games and face painting.
Vanderbilt Avenue Open Street | Prospect Heights
Saturdays through September 26, the season’s last | 12–10 pm | Vanderbilt Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Park Place | FREE | all ages
Now in its seventh season and Saturdays-only this year, Vanderbilt goes car-free for live music, games, crafts, workshops, fitness classes and food from the avenue’s own restaurants. One of the easiest things on this list to drop into for an hour on the way somewhere else. Prospect Heights Open Streets.
Montague Street Open Streets | Brooklyn Heights
Sundays through October 25 | 10 am–7 pm | Montague Street, Clinton to Hicks | FREE
Montague goes car-free on Sundays through the end of October, with a different headliner each week. September 27 was cancelled for rain and high winds, and its neighbourhood tag sale — around forty Brooklyn Heights households — has moved to October 4, 12–4 pm, alongside the Feast of St. Francis animal blessing at 1 pm outside St. Ann & the Holy Trinity, 157 Montague; October 11 is a square dance jamboree with Jalopy Theatre, callers teaching the steps, fun for all ages; October 18 is the pickleball tournament, 12–5 pm; and October 25 closes the season with the Montague Diner dog costume contest. Full weekly line-up here.
Noche de Tambores: Brooklyn Brujeria Festival kickoff | DUMBO
Friday, September 25 | 5–10 pm | DUMBO Archway, 155 Water Street at Anchorage Place | FREE, rain or shine | best with big kids and teens — it runs into the night
The ninth annual Brooklyn Brujeria Festival opens with a free night of drumming from across the Afro-Latin diaspora, a 60-plus-vendor night market, tarot and oracle readers and art installations under the Archway; the rest of the festival weekend is ticketed. Details here.
60th Bay Ridge Ragamuffin Parade
Saturday, September 26 | steps off 1 pm | 76th Street and Third Avenue down to 92nd Street, Bay Ridge | FREE to watch and to march | built entirely around children
Sixty years of Brooklyn children in costume marching down Third Avenue, in a tradition that predates modern Halloween. Day-of registration runs 11 am–12:30 pm at Our Lady of Angels on 74th Street off Third, judging is 11:30 am–12:15 pm, the parade assembles at 12:30 pm and steps off at 1 pm, passing the main stage at 90th Street and finishing at 92nd. Children should be accompanied by an adult along the route. ragamuffinparadebayridge.org.
Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day
Saturday, September 26 | 10 am–4 pm | Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street | FREE
Author readings, workshops, book signings and activities for kids and families, plus a children’s book market — part of the largest free literary festival in New York. The main Festival Day and Literary Marketplace follow on Sunday, September 27, 10 am–6 pm, at Borough Hall and venues around it. brooklynbookfestival.org
Hudson Canyon to NY Harbor Festival | Brooklyn Bridge Park
Saturday, September 26 | 11 am–3 pm | Emily Warren Roebling Plaza, Brooklyn Bridge Park | FREE | all ages, best for the science-minded
The New York Aquarium and NOAA host a free family STEM festival about the Hudson Canyon, the Grand Canyon-sized chasm 100 miles off the coast that may become a national marine sanctuary. Come back after dark for AQUA COSMOS, an 18-minute projection on the Brooklyn Bridge itself, viewable from the same plaza 7–10 pm on Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26. Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Daybreaker ALIVE Festival | Brooklyn Bridge Park
Saturday, September 26 | 6 am–8 pm | Pier 3, Brooklyn Bridge Park | FREE, RSVP encouraged | all ages, alcohol-free
Daybreaker’s first sunrise-to-sunset sober festival in the US: 3,000-plus people arriving at dawn for a day of movement, music, dancing and community on Pier 3, with no bar anywhere on the grounds. Come for an hour or the whole day. Details and RSVP.
6/15 Green Harvest Festival | Park Slope
Saturday, September 26 | times not yet posted | 6/15 Green community garden, 15th Street at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope | open to the public, no admission mentioned | all ages
Park Slope’s volunteer-run community garden holds its harvest party, and the city’s street-closure permit has 15th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues shut for most of the day, so the festival spills out of the garden and onto the block. The garden says the whole community is welcome, members or not, and had not posted start and end times when this guide was last updated. 6/15 Green posts them there first.
Sukkot Celebration in Prospect Park | Prospect Park
Monday, September 28 | 12–4 pm | Carousel Lawn, Prospect Park (near the Flatbush Avenue entrance) | FREE, RSVP requested | all ages; free Carousel rides for kids 12–2 pm
Prospect Park Alliance, One Crown Heights and the Jewish Community Relations Council put up a sukkah on the Carousel Lawn for an afternoon of arts and crafts, refreshments and nature activities with the Alliance’s naturalists. Kids under 18 (with one grown-up per group) ride the historic Carousel free from 12 to 2 pm — check in at the Alliance table. RSVP here.
Flatbush Frolic | Ditmas Park — POSTPONED
New date not yet announced | Cortelyou Road between Ocean and Coney Island avenues | FREE to walk around, rides and food charged separately | all ages
Flatbush’s big annual street festival, run by the Flatbush Development Corporation every year since the mid-1970s, was due on September 27 and has been postponed. The organisers’ own event page now reads “rain date TBD”, so there is no new date to plan around yet. Worth keeping an eye on, because it is one of the larger neighbourhood fairs of the autumn: 200-odd vendors, live performances, carnival rides and a food run the length of Cortelyou Road. FDC posts the new date here.
Super Stoop | Park Slope
Saturday, October 3 | 11 am–4 pm | stoops across Park Slope | FREE to browse | all ages
Park Slope’s neighbourhood-wide stoop sale, rescheduled from September after the weather turned. The Park Slope Civic Council says almost every street has multiple stoops signed up, and that nobody’s pin is affected by the move. A map of participating stoops is due in the days beforehand — worth checking before you set out, because the whole point is planning a walking route. Details here.
Third United Lenape / Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow | Prospect Park
Saturday–Sunday, October 3–4 | Saturday 10 am–7 pm, Sunday 10 am–4 pm, Grand Entry 11 am each day | LeFrak Center at Lakeside, Prospect Park | FREE, RSVP requested | all ages
A two-day gathering that brings the Lenape, Brooklyn’s original people, back to their homelands for dancing, drumming, regalia and food, with neighboring Indigenous nations joining. Prospect Park hosted formal pow wows from 1916 to 1972; this is the third year of the revival, presented by Prospect Park Alliance, the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective and the American Indian Community House. RSVP here.
Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival | Marine Park
Saturday, October 3 (rain date Sunday, October 4) | 6–9:30 pm | Hangar Lawn, Floyd Bennett Field, 1 Floyd Bennett Field | FREE, no ticket needed; free parking on site | all ages, but the projections use bright, rapidly flashing imagery
Bring a picnic dinner to the Hangar Lawn from 6 pm, then watch newly commissioned digital art by Derrick Adams, Randy Polumbo, Wills Glasspiegel and others projection-mapped onto the historic hangars from 7:30 pm. No food is sold on site. Details here.
Greenpoint StoopFest | Greenpoint
Sunday, October 4 | main event 1–5 pm, closing party 5–7 pm | Lorimer Street between Nassau and Norman avenues, closing party at McCarren Parkhouse | FREE
A brand-new neighborhood festival built around getting neighbors to actually meet each other. Free food and drink from Greenpoint establishments, a jazz quartet, live-band karaoke, a neighborhood quest, a community mural, DIY art stations, a photobooth and workshops, then a closing party at the McCarren Parkhouse. The organizers ask people to RSVP and say the full line-up is still to come. Details and RSVP here.
Atlantic Antic | Boerum Hill
Sunday, October 4 (new date) | 12–6 pm, rain or shine | Atlantic Avenue, Fourth Avenue to the waterfront | FREE
One of Brooklyn’s biggest and oldest street fairs, stretching over 10 blocks of Atlantic Avenue through Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and beyond. Local vendors, food, live music, and family activities, plus a kids block with pony rides, bounce houses, face painting and circus performers. Join us for PLAYTOPIA by Brooklyn Bridge Parents in Boerum Hill with free kids activities, the Brooklyn Museum on Wheels and more! atlanticave.org
Third Avenue Festival | Bay Ridge
Sunday, October 4 (new date) | 10 am–6 pm | Third Avenue, Bay Ridge | FREE
Bay Ridge’s big annual street festival, run by the Merchants of Third Avenue — vendors, food and stages the length of the avenue. Worth knowing that it lands on the same Sunday as the Atlantic Antic, so this is a pick-one afternoon. Details here.
Fall Fest at Atlantic Terminal Mall
Saturday, October 10 | 11 am–2 pm | Atlantic Terminal Mall Plaza & car-free Fort Greene Place, Fort Greene | FREE | all ages
Atlantic Terminal Mall and Brooklyn Bridge Parents are throwing a FREE, family-friendly fall festival on Atlantic Terminal’s outdoor plaza and car-free Fort Greene Place on Saturday, October 10 from 11 AM to 2 PM! Our epic “urban pumpkin patch” will be packed with pumpkins just waiting for the kiddos to pick out and decorate! The entire outdoor plaza and car-free street will come alive with fall fun, featuring hands-on arts & crafts, pumpkin painting, block building, spooky haunted trucks to enter and more. Kids are highly encouraged to rock their favorite costumes. Rain date: Sunday, October 11. Free RSVP here.
Smith Street Neighbors & Makers Street Fair in Cobble Hill
Saturday, October 17 | 11 am – 2 pm | Cobble Hill
A fall-filled celebration with local makers, community and a Brooklyn Bridge Parents kids zone with free kids activities on car-free Smith Street from Bergen to Union. Free RSVP here.
Smorgasburg Diwali: Festival of Bites | Prospect Park
Sunday, October 18 | 11 am–6 pm | Smorgasburg’s Prospect Park site at Breeze Hill, off Lincoln Road | FREE entry, food for sale | all ages
Smorgasburg and Prospect Park Alliance turn the Sunday market into a Diwali celebration: a curated line-up of South Asian restaurants and chefs, resident vendors with Diwali-inspired specials, and cultural performances and activities through the day. Prospect Park Alliance.
Halloween Fest | Fort Greene Park
Saturday, October 24, rain date October 25 | 12–4 pm | Fort Greene Park | FREE, no RSVP | costumes encouraged
The Fort Greene Park Conservancy’s Halloween Fest returns with spooky stories, face painting and family games. Free to all and nothing to book — turn up in costume. Fort Greene Park Conservancy.
Fall Harvest Festival | Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Saturday, October 24 | 11 am–5 pm | Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Washington Avenue | ticketed, free for members | flannel or a costume
Live music, hands-on family activities and an afternoon costume parade among the Garden’s fall foliage. The Garden lists it as a ticketed event but had not posted a price when we checked; members go free. Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Día de los Muertos at Avenue C Plaza | Kensington
Saturday, October 24 | time to be announced | Avenue C Plaza, Kensington | FREE | all ages
Casa Cultural and the Kensington Cultural Council call this their biggest event of the year: community ofrendas, performances, giant sugar skulls and alebrijes sculptures on the plaza. The Brooklyn Museum on Wheels joins the same day. Times had not been posted when we checked. Kensington Culture.
Halloween Fest Bay Ridge
Saturday, October 24 | 4 – 7 pm | 5th Ave | Free
Brooklyn Bridge Parents is partnering with the 5th Avenue BID to bring you Halloween Fest, a spooktacular free block party taking over 10 car-free blocks of 5th Avenue from 72nd to 85th Street on Saturday, October 24th from 4–7 PM. Celebrate the season with free kids activities, including puppet show, bouncy house, pumpkin decorating, “Trunk-or-Treat,” haunted trucks, games, crafts, giveaways, and so much more! The PuppetMobile will feature Pinocchio from 4:00 to 4:35 PM. Experience a fresh take on the classic fairytale! In this new telling, Geppetto is a New York City kid with a talent for invention, going so far as to create a robot friend in the form of Pinocchio. The story follows the pair as they tour around classic locales, from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park to the Victorian Gardens Amusement Park, and the hijinks they get into along the way. Free RSVP here.
Court Street Fair | Cobble Hill
Sunday, October 25 | hours to be announced | Court Street, Atlantic Avenue to Joralemon Street | FREE | all ages
The last big street fair of the year on the Heights–Cobble Hill border, run by Meteor Festivals: vendors, food and fair games the length of Court Street, and a good warm-up lap for Halloween week. Hours had not been posted when we checked. Meteor Festivals calendar.
BKLYN BOO! | Downtown Brooklyn
Friday, October 30 | 4–6 pm | Abolitionist Place, Willoughby Street at Albee Square West | FREE | whole family
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Halloween afternoon with City Point — music, treats and costumes on the plaza, and an easy one to fold into a Friday pick-up. Downtown Brooklyn.
Dumboween
Saturday, October 31 | March to the Arch gathers 3 pm, Archway party 3:30–6 pm | Washington Street between Front and Water, then the DUMBO Archway | FREE | little kids especially
DUMBO’s Halloween: a costume march from Washington Street to the Archway, then crafts, a free photobooth, a costume contest judged at 4 pm, the Howl-o-Ween dog contest and trick-or-treating at more than 50 neighborhood businesses. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, so expect a crowd; the Dumbo BID has moved the march earlier to 3 pm for 2026. Dumbo BID.
Park Slope Halloween Parade | Park Slope
Saturday, October 31 | 6:30–8 pm | Seventh Avenue, Park Slope; route to be announced | FREE | all ages, and the smallest children go up front
The Park Slope Civic Council’s children’s Halloween parade has filled Seventh Avenue with costumed kids, puppets and drummers for decades. The route had not been posted when we checked. Park Slope Civic Council.
Creepy Crawly Halloween | Prospect Park
Saturday, October 31 | 10 am–4 pm | Prospect Park | FREE, no RSVP | all ages, best for the bug-curious
Prospect Park Alliance’s Halloween day for kids who like the creatures that give everyone else the creeps: borrow a sketchbook and hunt for spiders, bats and insects (10 am–4 pm), dissect an owl pellet (11 am–2 pm) and try the nature chef’s crunchy treats (12–3 pm). Prospect Park Alliance.
NYC Marathon Mile 8 Cheering Station | Fort Greene
Sunday, November 1 | 9 am–1:30 pm | mile 8 of the course, Fort Greene | FREE
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership sets up at mile 8 with live music, free coffee and free cowbells. One of the easiest big-city spectacles to do with small children — you stand still and the event comes to you. Details here.
DTBK Gets Lit! | Downtown Brooklyn
Tuesday, November 24 | 6–7 pm | Albee Square, Fulton Street at Albee Square West | FREE
Downtown Brooklyn’s annual holiday lighting, with live music, performances, refreshments and the countdown to switching the lights on. The first of the season and a short, early-evening outing that works with young children. Downtown Brooklyn.
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Updated: September 2026.
