Hi friends, welcome back! Every year, a select few deck out their NYC town houses in spooky decorations and I’m ALL about it. I did my research this year to find out the best locations and must-see spots. The most famous decor is on the Upper East Side, but quite a few neighborhoods and famous spots also decorate for fall. I’ve compiled all the fall spots I discovered into this post for your viewing pleasure 🙂
On a chilly, crisp fall day, I took the subway to 59th street on the East Side and wandered the avenues up to 86th street finding the best decor. I started on 61st Street and quite a few homes on the block participated in the fun. I found this map online and it guided me to almost all of the pictures you’ll see.
One day I hope my porch will look something like this. I won’t be the scariest house on the block!
This one was my favorite of all the townhomes I saw, I liked how the skeletons coordinated with the blue door.
Their neighbor joined in on the fun too!
This townhouse is a renowned plastic surgeons office and gets an A+ for effort – only in NYC ha!
The middle of Park Avenue lined with fall colors.
This house even has hanging bats!
This is Kelly Ripa’s house all decked out. It was hard to get all five stories of her home in one picture.
This house must have a back entrance somewhere I hope or maybe the side… I do love the dedication!
In addition to the Upper East Side, the Seaport District always features a fun pumpkin arch. This year vs last year.
I checked out Rockefeller Center to conclude my tour and not only did I find pumpkins, but I stumbled upon the Día de Muertos exhibit. This exhibit runs from October 22 – November 2nd and I enjoyed checking out the unique sculptures.
Not much longer before Rockefeller will be decked for Christmas 🙂
I hope you all enjoyed the tour!! Happy Halloween Week!
Great post showing the NYC Hallowe’en spirit Lyssy. So nice when the decorations are well thought out and coordinated. Here, many dump 30 inflatables haphazardly on their lawn and think it looks good. Thanks for sharing. Allan
I guess the one perk to no front yards in the city is no inflatables ha! I wonder how much it cost to have such elaborate decorations, seems professional grade to me. Thanks for reading 🙂
Some of these are amazing!! I bet you had a great day viewing them!! 🙂
I had a blast! 🎃 just wish I could’ve moved some of the parked cars so I could take in the full view 😂
Haha and I just know that you are serious! 😉
Survey says you are correct 🥳
🙂 🙂
Some of those decorations are so well done they would scare me off if I was trick or treating. 😮😊
I agree!! Especially at night when it’s dark out 👻 I’m glad nothing jumped out at me 😂
Good job decorating, it’s something I miss in Paris, outside of a few circles of Americanized people there is not that festive Halloween atmosphere that exists in Canada. You can’t have everything.
Such fun fall decorations!
So fun!
Wow, people really go all out!
They sure do!
Those blue skeletons are working hard..LoL and that is a great pumpkin arch!!
I love it – although those blue ones are a bit weird; I love that people go crazy for Halloween in the US, I’m definitely going to have to visit one pumpkin season 🙂
Yes!! I’ll take you on a tour 🙂
Colorado Springs has a map for the best decorated houses at Christmas, but I never thought to wonder if we also have one for houses at Halloween. Some of those townhouses are creepy (esp. those blue skeletons)! Makes me wonder if passers-by don’t knock on the door and say, “Can we come through the haunted house”? Thanks for a fun tour, Lyssy.
I do love houses decorated for Christmas, reminds me of Christmas Vacation ha. There’s an area in Brooklyn that goes all out I’m hoping to see this year. The townhouses were decorated pretty creepy, it looks cool, but I prefer decorating more cute than creepy.