OCT. 28-31: The 5 Best Bang-for-Your-Buck Adventures in NYC This Weekend (And Halloween Night!)

NEW YORK, NY — This weekend, pretty much every meal you consume, every drink you imbibe, and every entertainment you attend will have a pumpkin slapped on it and its price doubled! After all, it's Halloween, people, a time of ghouls and goblins — and rampant seasonal commercialism! In fact, to take full advantage of the holiday, see Patch.com's own Epic Halloween Guide for an exhaustive compendium of parades, parties, fests, and freakshows where you can really get your Halloween on in style.

For everyone else, continue below for our usual curated list of five super-fun (and non- or merely gently-Halloween-oriented) Bang-for-Your-Buck adventures this weekend in New York City — in every taste and price range.

But first, it's a ...

THE-FREAKS-COME-OUT-AT-NIGHT ALERT!

VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE

Where: Sixth Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street, West Village [map]

When: Monday, 10/31, 7 to 9:30 p.m.

What: Where will you be Monday night? — we know, it's a rhetorical question. Since 1973, the best place to experience the insanity of Halloween in NYC — and an absolute must at least once in your life — is the Village Halloween Parade. No one does the holiday like the Big Apple, and the official parade is living proof (technically, un-dead proof). You can view the parade anywhere along Sixth Avenue in the West Village, but if you think your Halloween drag is freakishly funny (or fit to frighten), report to Canal and Sixth Ave. [map] any time after 6:30 p.m. and march with the rest of the crazies! (Costumes absolutely required to march.) For more information, go here.

How much: FREE!

LIC FLEA AND FOOD, FINAL WEEKEND AND LOS DIAS DELICIOSOS

Where: 46th Ave. and 5th Street, Long Island City [map]

When: Saturday, 10/29, and Sunday, 10/30, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

What: The chill blowing in from the East River means the days grow short for outdoor fests, and so it is for the great little block-party-cum-bazaar known as LIC Flea and Food. This weekend is its last hurrah of 2016 (save for a few weeks after Thanksgiving, when the space reopens as a holiday market ). As usual, the tchotchke vendors will be out in force, trying to make those last big sales of the season. But for its grand finale, the market has partnered with Joe DiStefano, founder of Queens-based food blog Chopsticks + Marrow, to present Los Dias Deliciosos, a celebration of the best South American cuisine in the borough. You can munch on a homemade Colombian arepa while you haggle! For more information, go here.

How much: FREE!

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA W/LIVE MUSIC ACCOMPANIMENT

Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, Park Slope, Brooklyn [map]

When: Friday, 10/28, 7 p.m.

What: You probably didn't know there is a Morbid Anatomy Museum in New York City, dedicated to subjects that are, well, let's just say outside of mainstream scholarship — you know, like night terrors and books bound in human skin. Basically, this joint celebrates Halloween 24-7-365. But Friday night, the MAM rolls deep with a screening of the 1925 horror classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney. The killer twist is that experimental quartet Underworld Oscillator Corporation provides a live soundtrack to the film! For more information and tickets, go here.

How much: Tickets are $12.

HALLOWEEN MURDER MYSTERY AT THE MT. VERNON MUSEUM

Where: Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, Upper East Side [map]

When: Friday, 10/28, 6:15 and 7:30 p.m.

What: Built in 1799 and converted into a museum in 1909, The Mount Vernon Hotel endures as an example of a bygone era, when wealthy Manhattan residents ventured into the vast countryside north of 14th Street to get away from it all. The Museum gets the seasonal creeps this Friday evening, presenting a spooky murder-mystery game based on an actual newspaper account of an unidentified skeleton discovered inside the hotel. Explore the old building by candlelight, searching for clues. Fun for the whole family! For more information and tickets, go here.

How much: Tickets are $25 ($15 for kids and members).

FALL FOLIAGE HIKE OF THE STATEN ISLAND GREENBELT

Where: Greenbelt Nature Center, Staten Island [map]; Meet at Manhattan S.I. ferry terminal [map]

When: Saturday, 10/29, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

What: Leave the hustle and bustle (and the throngs of costumed bridge-and-tunnelers) behind Saturday morning for a guided birding and fall foliage hike through the lovely Greenbelt Nature Center on Staten Island. You'll climb the 260-foot "Moses Mountain" to get a panoramic view of the island and more distant points, take in the fall colors, and spy hawks, warblers, and other songbirds as they migrate south for the winter. Bring lunch, water, and binoculars. For more information and tickets, go here.

How much: Tickets are $43 ($30 for Audubon members).

B-52s HALLOWEEN SCREAM

Where: Webster Hall, Greenwich Village [map]

When: Saturday, 10/29, doors at 7 p.m.

What: Webster Hall will be rocking all weekend long starting Friday night with famed British trip-hop producer Tricky and concluding Monday night with the official Village Halloween Parade afterparty Webster Hell. But sandwiched in between is Saturday night's concert — from maybe the single act most likely to get your Halloween jollies off: Those 80's new-wave goofballs The B-52s. Surely, they'll dust off thematic oldies like "Wig," "Rock Lobster," "Cosmic Thing," and "Devil in My Car." For more information and tickets, go here.

How much: Tickets are $50.

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