Halloween is always a blast on Myrtle Avenue. Adult-, child- and family- friendly activities abound. Hope to see you on the Avenue: enjoy!
Halloween at the Trilok lot, sponsored by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnerhip
2p-6p at Trilok Fusion lot on the corner of Myrtle and Waverly.
Puppet Making Fun for the kids, teens and adults! Kids will have the chance to make their own pumpkin Jack-o-lantern by giving new life to recyclable materials. The grown-ups can learn to sculpt a creepy finger puppet-head from foam rubber.
Workshop will be taught by Kevin Augustine, artistic director of Lone Wolf Tribe and one of New York City’s most unique puppet artisans.
Trilok Fusion Center for Arts & Education
(Saturday)
Trilok Fusion Center for Arts & Education hosts its first annual Halloween Festival on Saturday from 1p-6p. Free admission. Pony rides, bouncy castle, games, face painting, costume parade, food by local vendors and much more! Gift basket raffle to raise funds for their children’s international travel program. Halloween Festival to take place in the Trilok Fusion Center for Arts & Education lot at Myrtle-Waverly corner.
Trilok Fusion Center for Arts & Education can be reached at: 718.797.1700.
Just Because Salon
(throughout Halloween week)
Drop by Just Because Salon for a glimpse of old-fashioned holiday window dressing. Frightful skeleton chillin’ in the window. Don’t let all of the owner’s creative work go unnoticed—check it out. Swing by with the kids!
Just Because Salon is located at 141 Carlton Avenue and can be reached at 718.722.7810.
Polish Bar of Brooklyn
(Saturday – Wednesday)
Need some help keeping your Halloween makeup on point? Stop in at Polish Bar of Brooklyn. Yes, it’s true, come on out to Polish to get those finishing touches before you head out trick-or-treating or to that Halloween bash.
Call for more details: 718.622.5363.
Dope Jams
(Saturday into Sunday)
Dope Jams 5th Annual Hallowe’en Costume Ball from 10p until 6am. The guys at Dope Jams really, and we mean like reallllly get into Halloween, and this year’s Hallowe’en is no different.
It’s time for Dope Jams 5th Annual Costume Ball and party (from the Dope Jams guys: “LIFE” aims to save dance music from the dark shadows of banality and to once again make it exciting and NEW. Always forward, never backwards, and yet always aware of the movement, the progress that music must continue if it is to survive. Against transitory mediocrity we must stand, and so we embark once more to explore the essence of social transcendence through musical exercise.”
Music: Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson; Guest DJ: Jonny Romero.
Cover: $5 for members/ $15 for non-members.
Dope Jams is located at 580 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 718.622.7977.
Luz
(Wednesday)
Enjoy Halloween fright films that will be looped and streaming at Luz. Come dressed in your costume and get a free glass of sangria. Kids dressed in costume get free ice cream, yum.
Luz is located at 177 Vanderbilt Avenue, just south of Myrtle. Call for more details: 718.246.4000.
Maggie Brown
(Wednesday)
Maggie Brown will be giving away candy and a free spooky shot to those in costume (and over 21)!
Maggie Brown is located at 455 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 718.643.7001.
Five Spot Soul Food & Supper Club
Five Spot will be hosting a costume party this weekend.
Also, during the day on Wednesday, kids can stop by to pick up more for their candy stashes, “starting at 3!”
Five Spot is located at 459 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 718.852.0202.
Rope
(Saturday)
Stop by with some love. Starts at 5 pm.
Rope is located at 415 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 718.522.2899.
The Emerson
(Wednesday)
Pumpkin Carving and Painting by day + Happy Hour from 2p-7p.
Parents and other adults participating in backyard pumpkin carving and artwork get 2-for-1 draft and well drinks. Bring your kids, a pumpkin and some supplies if you have. The Emerson will provide some supplies.
Halloween Party and Costume Contest $4 Pumpkin Ale on draft, $4 Halloween Cocktail. Bring a small painted or carved pumpkin and get a FREE drink! Best Costume wins $100 Cash and $50 Bar Tab. 2nd Place $50 bar tab.
The Emerson is located at 561 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 347.763.1310.
Touché
(Wednesday)
Black Street Masquerade Party and Fundraiser. Party it up to your heart’s content!
6p-11p $10 w/RSVP ‘til 12midnight. Email to info@blackstreetonline.com or 646.397.0772.
Doors open at 5pm.
Touche Lounge is located at 46 Washington Avenue. Call for more details: 917.208.0641.
Putnam’s Pub & Cooker
(Saturday into Sunday)
Putnam’s 2nd annual Halloween party and costume contest on Saturday from 10p-4p! 1st prize-$200. Second prize is a $50 bar tab. 3rd prize is a $20 bar tab. Free entry! Free Halloween shot when you register! DJ Max Power at the turntable—hey, hey.
Putnam’s is located at 419 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 347.799.2382.
Mojito Cuban Cuisine
(Wednesday)
Happy Hour 2-for-1 drinks all day on Halloween.
Mojito Cuban Cuisine is located at 82 Washington Avenue. Call for more details: 718.797.3100.
Myrtle Car Service
(Wednesday)
Myrtle Car is candy central once again. Stop in for all your favorite candies on Monday. If you can find it at the candy store, you can find it at Myrtle Car on Halloween as they take the day quite seriously. You won’t be disappointed by the growth of your candy stash. Myrtle Car Service is located at 525 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 718.230.8100.
Los Pollitos III
(Wednesday)
Costume contest at Los Pollitos III. Raffles to win ‘dinner for two’ prizes. Los Pollitos promises discounts so deep on the sangria that it will be like giving it away. Los Pollitos III is located at 499 Myrtle Avenue. Call for more details: 718.636.6125.
Brooklyn Public Library, Walt Whitman Branch
(Wednesday)
Kids party at the Whitman Branch. Call for time. The one-story Walt Whitman Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library has a separate children’s room and internet access. The branch is wheelchair-accessible.
The Whitman Branch is located at 93 St. Edwards Street between Myrtle and Park. Call for details: 718.935.0244.
19th Annual Halloween Walk
(Wednesday)
Bring your trick-or-treaters for a fun time at the 19th Annual Halloween Walk sponsored by the Society for Clinton Hill. The walk begins at the Pratt-Clinton Hill Community Garden on the corner of Hall Street and DeKalb Avenue. The Halloween Walk starts at 5:30pm and ends at 7:00pm on Wednesday, rain or shine. Trick-or-treating maps will be provided. Parents and guardians must accompany their children for the entire Walk.
The Brooklyn Halloween Show
(Monday)
The Brooklyn Halloween Show is held at 227 Waverly Avenue (between Dekalb and Willoughby). Oct. 31 at 6:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m. This is part of the Clinton Hill Halloween Walk. Pick up a map of selected houses for candy and decorations.
Halloween Festival
(Ssturday)
The Fort Greene Park Conservancy Halloween Festival, 12-3 pm, in the park. This event includes games, entertainment, face painting, costume parade and a slew of free pumpkins for kids of all ages.
The Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest
(Saturday)
Fort Greene PUPS presents The Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest, registration at 11:30, judging at noon – 1 pm. Takes place on the steps of the Monument for observers and on the lower terrace for the dogs (in costume.)
Cielo Bar
(Friday and Saturday)
Costume Party on Friday and Saturday at Cielo Bar
Gnarly Vines Wine Tastings
(Saturday)
The Italian Chainsaw Massacre Saturday, October 27th, 5-8pm
Take a stab at sipping these four fab wines Saturday night! The 70s saw the most wonderful collection of horrifically, fake-blood splattered, sensationally spooky slasher flicks that required no reading of subtitles – horror is a universal language! But these boot-centric sippers we’ll be pouring Saturday night aren’t scary at all – they’re quite the opposite. And the chainsaw? Aw, that’s just a vineyard in Oregon where some mighty lovely Pinot hails. So break out your best plastic pumpkin and come on in for some treats of the pourable kind.
2011 D’Alfonso del Sordo – Catapanus – Bombino Bianco – Daunia, Puglia, Italy – $14
Great with garlicky, buttery shrimp and mussels!
2010 Witness Tree ‘Chainsaw’ Pinot Noir – Salem, Oregon – $24
Scary name; beautiful wine. This fruit is sourced from the Chainsaw vineyard in the Eola Hills, and shows elegance and structure that has put Oregon Pinot on the map. Lean, herby, with notes of black cherry and strawberry, and a spicy, savory finish that’s perfect for roasted quail with pomegranates.
2009 Gricos Aglianico del Vulture – Basilicata, Italy – $14 Some wine minds consider Aglianico to be Southern Italy’s best grape. The Gricos is 100% Aglianico from the volcanic soils near Mt. Vulture in Basilicata, where Aglianico grows best. This is an excellent, medium-bodied red with ripe, clean, dark fruit and licorice flavors balanced by firm tannins.
2008 Cantina del Pino Barbaresco – Piedmont, Italy – $38 Cantina del Pino has emerged recently as one of the most important producers of Barbaresco.We generally write in-depth notes when tasting new wines for the store, but for this one we all wrote only one word: Awesome! Especially with Bolognese. 15% off featured wines during the tasting!
Gnarly Vines Cocktail of the Week: Corpse Reviver #2
Now, now, honey – a nice cocktail will bring you back to life.
Feeling dead inside? Wandering the floors like the living dead? Need a little life-booster in your bloodless veins? A Corpse Reviver #2 will put the gust back in your ghoulish sails! Click here for the recipe, but check below for a preview of the evil (like the fru-its of the de-vil) ingredients:
Death’s Door Distilled Gin – Door County, WI (750ml) – $36 Infused with wild juniper berries that are hand harvested from the fields and forests of Washington Island, plus coriander, fennel, and other native Wisconsin botanicals. Lillet White – France (750ml) – $20
The original French Aperitif since 1887. Made with Bordeaux-centric Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, and Muscadelle grapes, and blended with herbs and oranges. Fresh and dry, Lillet is great served chilled with an orange slice.
Cointreau Orange Liqueur – Angers, France (375ml) – $21 French brandy infused with sweet and bitter orange peels from Spain, Brazil, and Haiti. An aromatic, intense substitution for triple sec!
La Muse Verte Absinthe Traditionnelle – France [750ml] – $57.60
This is one of the rare, true Absinthes that are at the historically accurate 68% alcohol. The final product undergoes a meticulous decantation and filtration process with wool and paper, just like in the old days.
(photo: from Fort Greene PUPS Flckr page, Lexi the Leopard. The Great PUPkin costume competition will take place in Fort Greene Park this Saturday, Oct. 28th.)
