HALLOWEEN: BOO AT THE ZOO

New York City zoos are celebrating Halloween with their annual Boo at the Zoo events, with special family-friendly weekend programs (as well as on Halloween itself at some locations). At the Bronx Zoo, you’ll encounter the Jack O’Lantern Illumination — Creatures of the Night in Somba Village, the Carnival of Extraordinary Animals puppet shows at the Asia Plaza Theater, 3-D carved pumpkin displays in Dancing Crane Plaza, costume parades led by the Alice Farley Dance Company, Creepy Crafts Workshops, such Creature Chats as “Birds of Halloween: Owls and Vultures” and “Batty About Bats,” magic shows in the tent at Grizzly Corner, a Music for Aardvarks Halloween sing-along at the Terrace Café, Broadway at Boo presentations by cast members of On the Town and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a hay maze, treat stations, a dinosaur safari, and more. At the Prospect Park Zoo, there will be a scavenger hunt, Wildlife Witch magic shows, animal meet-and-greets, pumpkin treats for dingoes and baboons, costumed characters, storytelling, a Spooky Barn, and a parade and dance party. And at the Queens Zoo, Boo at the Zoo takes place October 31 – November 2, with trick-or-treat stations, costumed animal characters, a haunted habitat, pumpkin picking, face painting, arts and crafts, enrichment classes about pumas and Andean bears, and Halloween critter meetings. (Note: The Staten Island Zoo’s Spooktacular took place October 18-19, and nothing is scheduled for the Central Park Zoo and New York Aquarium.)