Press And Media Center:  Welcome to the 50th Annual Parade, October 31, 2023
For interviews write to: vhpdirector@gmail.com

If you would like to register for an official NYC Village Halloween Parade Media Pass, click the button below.

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If you already have a NYC Official Press Pass, you need NO further credentials.  

If you want an interview, please contact us directly via email.

Photographers: Sharing Photos a must!

We ask that all credentialed photographers share their photos with us after the event in our Online Photo Gallery hosted by Smugmug. Since we are a small not-for-profit arts organization, we depend on the generosity of those to whom we give Media Passes to share their photos with us online or to send us a disk after the event.

We do this so all the folks who come to the Parade have a single place they can come to find themselves in some of the photos!

Meanwhile here are the facts:

WHO: ONLY those in costume AND MASKS are Welcome to join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of different types of music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of Other New Yorkers inn Costumes of their own creation in NYC’s special brand of Carnivale!  Grand Marshall 2023: Laurie Anderson and in Memory Lou Reed

WHAT: The 50th Annual New York’s Village Halloween Parade
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 7 p.m !

WHEN: Line-up for those who want to be IN the Parade begins at 6:30 p.m. and runs until 9 p.m. ONLY costumed marchers are allowed! Line-up is on 6th Avenue between Spring St. and Broome St. Marchers should ONLY approach 6th Ave. from the EAST or the SOUTH, coming North from Canal St. or from EAST on Sullivan or Broome. Spring will be closed off both East and West as will Dominick and Little Broome Streets.

WHERE: In New York’s Greenwich Village, on 6th Avenue between Spring and 16th St.

WHY: For the Nation’s Most Wildly Creative, Largest Public Participatory Event in the Greatest City in the World!

CONTACT: Jeanne Fleming, Artistic and Producing Director

845.758.5519  or email: vhpdirector@gmail.com

Fact Sheet 2023

Celebrating our 50th Anniversary, New York’s Village Halloween Parade is…

• The nation’s largest public Halloween celebration
• Named as The Greatest Event on Earth by Festivals International for October 31
• Attended by over 2 million people, seen by over 1 million on TV.
• The nation’s only major night Parade.
• Seen LIVE on NY 1 Television.
• Listed as one of the 100 Things to do Before You Die.
• Recipient of the Municipal Arts Society of New York’s Award for making a major contribution to the cultural life of New York City.
• Recipient of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in recognition of Longtime Artistic Achievement.
• Recipient of the Mayor’s Tourism Grant in recognition of the Parade’s major impact on the economic life of New York City and grants from the Manhattan Borough President’s Tourism Initiative.
• Picked by Events International as The Greatest Event on Earth on October 31, and ranked 3rd by Citysearch as the best event in New York City.
• Ranked by Biz Bash as one of the top 10 events in NYC.
• The subject of extensive national and international news coverage, including ABC, CBS and NBC television networks; live television coverage on MTV, Channel 13 and the CNN; UPI and AP stories and photographs that appear on front pages coast to coast; annual coverage in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, U.S.A. Today, the New York Post, the Daily News, Time, and every other local New York television, radio and print media.
• Reaching 4 million viewers in 2 hours of LIVE coverage of the Parade by New York 1 News Television and WKTU Radio.
• In 2000 the Parade was broadcast LIVE nationally for the first time on USA Networks and the SCI Fi Channel with host Susan Saranden.
• In 2001 the Parade was seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide as the Parade was seen as a pivotal moment in the recovery of New York from the tragic events of 9/11 and then again in 2017 just hours after another attack. And then in 2021 was the first large scale event in NYC after Covid.
• Internationally acclaimed in France, Russia, Germany, England, Italy, Japan, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Malaysia, Hungary, Korea, Greece, Poland, China, Argentina, Turkey, New Zealand and Yugoslavia as a result of international television specials on the Parade as well as news coverage and worldwide coverage on CNN.
• A mile-long stage featuring tens of thousands of costumed marchers, hundreds Halloween characters, including giant masks and puppets, dozens of marching bands playing music from around the world stilt walkers, jugglers, break dancers and other street performers participate in the Parade.
• Behind the scenes, an event where professional lighting designers, stage managers, carpenters, and electricians are called upon to light the mile_long event, create special effects and dress scenes along the route.
• An open forum for visual and performing artists to display their art in an environment where all are creators as well as participants and viewers.
• A vehicle for the co-mingling of the diverse economic, ethnic, social, sexual and racial components of New York City, putting on display the cultural pluralism of the world’s most exciting city..
• A family event, thus serving as a form of creative and positive expression for young people in a safe, celebrative environment.
• A vehicle for New York City schools, design and performing arts colleges and universities, neighborhood associations and artists to work closely with the Parade staff to design major elements for the Parade throughout the year.
• Working closely with the NYC Office of the Mayor, the Manhattan Borough President, Community Boards #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and the Departments of Police, Sanitation, Fire, Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs to produce the safest, cleanest Parade in the City. Indeed, the New York City Police have lauded the Parade as a valuable public service institution in that it makes Halloween safe for the citizens of New York on a night which is a high crime night in many other parts of the city and nationwide.
• A carefully planned collaborative effort organized by a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, year round, 501c3 arts organization called Village Halloween Parade, Inc. .
• An event which has a positive impact on New York economic life, bringing hundreds of thousands of tourists and an estimated $90 million in tourism dollars into the city, providing Greenwich Village businesses and restaurants their best night of the year..
• An event which has a tremendously positive impact on how people who live in or come to visit New York see and feel about this community. The excitement and goodwill that it generates is lasting..
• In effect, by turning a large and complex city into a small town for just one night, the Parade has been a pioneer in the critical movement toward the resurrection and rejuvenation of the City..
• Village Halloween Parade funders have included (to name a few): Jeep, Monkey Shoulder, Titos Handmade Vodka, Double Verify, Jaegermeister, Amtrak, Annheiser Busch, Avenue Q, Wicked, Spamalot, Human Security, Comedy Central, Coney Island Brewery, New Line Cinema, Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce, HERE Arts Center, Jet Blue, Juicy Fruit, Freixenet, Little Shop of Horrors, Manhattan Monster, Photogra.com, PONY Pedicabs, Trio TV, Webster Hall, iheart Mediam WKTU, Z100, MIX 103, The Village Voice,Volkswagen, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Mayor’s Office of Tourism, The Manhattan Borough President, The Rudin Foundation, the Association for a Better New York, NY1Television, Time Warner Cable, USA Networks. SCREAM USA, Sci Fi Channel, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Bell Atlantic, Mammoth Records (Disney, Starbucks, Zappos.com, ZipCar, Perrier, Whole Foods Market, Mannheim Steamroller, SONY, Focus Features, Captain Morgan,The Geek Squad, Volkswagon, Mini Cooper, Family Guy, Rubie’s Costume Company, Microsoft, Snapple, Logic Records, The Geek Squad, BMW, Vespa, Monster Energy Drink, Miller Brewing, Liberty Tax, Focus Features, Columbia Records, Elektra Records, Ford Motor Company, Mindspring, Con Edison, Vampire Vineyards, Dunkin’ Donuts, and many more movie promotions, Broadway Shows and hundreds of individuals, small businesses, foundations and governmental agencies.