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Ragamuffin Parade

Brooklyn, NY · Quirky

When

September 26, 2026

Where

Third Avenue, 76th to 92nd Street, Bay Ridge · Brooklyn · NY

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Bay Ridge children march in homemade costumes down Third Avenue behind marching bands and vintage cars, a neighborhood Halloween tradition older than most trick-or-treating on the block. Now in its sixth decade, it draws more than 2,000 costumed kids each fall.

The history within reach

• Ragamuffin Paradesame spot

  Bay Ridge children march in homemade costumes down Third Avenue behind marching bands and vintage cars, a neighborhood Halloween tradition older than most trick-or-treating on the block.

• Yellow Hook renames itself Bay Ridge0.2 mi

  The village was called Yellow Hook, after the colour of the soil, until December 1853, when residents changed it to Bay Ridge to shed any association with yellow fever.

• Norwegian Day Parade0.3 mi

  Bay Ridge's Norwegian-American community marches down Third and Fifth Avenues on the Sunday closest to Norway's Constitution Day, with marching bands, folk costumes, and Nordic flags.

• John Paul Jones Park and its twenty inch Rodman gun1.2 mi

  Fort Hamilton test fired a new twenty inch Rodman gun in 1864, a fifty eight ton piece that threw a shot weighing 1,080 pounds.

• Sunset Park's Chinatown1.3 mi

  Rising Manhattan rents pushed Chinese immigrants along the N line to Eighth Avenue, chosen partly because eight is auspicious.