Things To Do This Weekend In New York City & Roosevelt Island- Halloween Parade, Greenwood Cemetary Tour, NYC Marathon & RI Halloween Costume Party

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Looking for fun or interesting things to do on Roosevelt Island or in some other part of New York City this Halloween and Marathon Weekend? Here are some ideas:

For Friday Night, Free NYC suggests:

"Halloween ‘Spooktacular’ at Trinity Church featuring games, crafts, ghost tales in the churchyard as well as a nighttime screening of The Phantom of the Opera (1925) accompanied by organist Robert Ridgell.

On Saturday afternoon take a spooky Halloween walking tour of Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetary:

HALLOWEEN AT GREEN-WOOD, PART 1
Celebrate the holiday with tales of murder, mayhem, spirits, and ghosts on Green-Wood's annual Halloween walking tour with Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman. This is a very, very popular tour, so arrive early.

There will be a second tour on Sunday, November 1 at 1:00PM.

and then view or participate in the fantastic 36th annual New York Village Halloween Parade.

Join Us !
All Those in Costume are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of Different Types of Music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation in the Nation’s Most Wildly Creative Public Participatory Event in the Greatest City in the World !
Line-Up !
For all those in costume is on 6th Avenue South of Spring Street and North of Canal between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Alert ! ONLY enter the line-up on 6th Ave. from the East and South between Canal and Spring !

Sunday is New York City Marathon Day. According to the NY Times Spare Times:

NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS Sunday, the ING New York City Marathon, a 26.2-mile run through the city’s five boroughs, beginning at 9:40 a.m. at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island, then going through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, ending at Tavern on the Green in Central Park. Athletes in wheelchairs begin the run at 8:20 a.m., followed by athletes with disabilities at 8:45 a.m. and professional female runners at 9:10 a.m. Registration is closed. Viewing areas: in Brooklyn, along Fourth Avenue, beginning at 92nd Street in Bay Ridge; in Queens, along 44th Drive from Vernon Boulevard to Queensboro Plaza, Long Island City; in Manhattan, along First Avenue, from 59th Street to the Willis Avenue Bridge, and Fifth Avenue, from 135th to 90th Streets; in the Bronx, 138th Street to the Madison Avenue Bridge, in the Mott Haven section.

A NYC Marathon Spectator Guide is here.

On Roosevelt Island this weekend, in addition to Friday night's PTA sponsored Halloween Costume Party, the Farmers Market is open as usual as is Gallery RIVAA.

Another suggestion - RIOC has produced a great self guided tour map (PDF File) of Roosevelt Island for any visitor or resident looking to stroll the Island and learn something more about it.

The MTA is reporting no Roosevelt Island F Train subway advisories this weekend and neither is RIOC with Tram advisories.

Check out some other ideas on what to do in New York City this weekend from the NY Times Urban Eye and Spare Times, Free NYC and Newyorkology.