NY Night Train 19th Annual HAUNTED HOP Halloween Spooktacular!
The 2024 edition of NYC’s iconic Halloween extravaganza (music festival, dance party, haunted house, art happening, and beyond!)! Get ready for another night of nonstop thrills and chills from dusk ’til dawn! Rare appearances by legends like The Mummies! And The Gories! And Kool Keith! And way too many bands to list! 36 in total! Plus 12 DJs! And so much more! Hours upon hours of multi-media excitement across an indoor/outdoor labyrinth of distinctive rooms!
KNOCKDOWN CENTER | OCT 31, 2024 | 6PM – 4AM
$29 (plus tax & ticket fees) Early Bird | $35 Advance (plus tax & ticket fees) | $40 Day of SHow
Tickets | Facebook Event
NYC’s biggest, best, and most fun underground Halloween party tradition, annually since 2006, the New York Night Train HAUNTED HOP, saw over 4000 revelers last year and is raising the bar even higher for 2024! Jonathan Toubin’s humble record hop has evolved over 19 editions into an epic multi-room indoor/outdoor music festival/dance party featuring nonstop live acts, dancing, horror cinema (projected from 16mm reels), performance, art installations, visuals, decor galore, food, drink, and the annual $500 costume contest! Nine straight action-packed hours of nonstop thrills and chills in a gargantuan haunted house sprawled out across a labyrinth of unique party environments! Dress up! Come early! Stay late! Make a night of it!
THE PHANTASMAGORICAL BALLROOM!
Legendary headliners play their own original material for hours until the stage concludes with a massive dance party!
THE MUMMIES
THE GORIES
KOOL KEITH
THE MYSTERY LIGHTS
BIG GIRL as ABBA
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Late night Monster Mashing with JONATHAN TOUBIN & MUMMIES A GO GO (Seattle’s BOOTS party!)
1AM $500 COSTUME CONTEST
ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS and GOO GOO MUCK MANOR
A relentless procession of your favorite bands as their favorite bands every 15 minutes!
THE THING as The Who
SHILPA RAY as Depeche Mode
TCHOCHKE- Shangri-Las
PATTON MAGEE (Nude Party) – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
SID SIMONS as David Bowie
TONY & THE KIKI as Rocky Horror Picture Show
ABBY JEANNE & THE SHADOW BAND as The Doors
EVOLFO as Can
95 BULLS as Thin Lizzy
ALANA AMRAM & THE ROUGH GEMS as The Four Seasons
GNARCISSISTS as Butthole Surfers
FLASYD as Beastie Boys
SKORTS as Heart
FRIDA KILL as X-Ray Spex
MALA VISTA as Blitz
BALACLAVA as Jay Reatard
THE DRACU-LAS as The Go-Go’s
CERTAIN DEATH as T-Rex
THEOPHOBIA as Sparks
SHOP TALK w/JASPER MCGANDY as The Damned
THE KNIGHT SHADES as ? & The Mysterians
LICKS as The Gories
FIREWALL as Blur
MIGHTY FINE as Rick James
THE ROYALE MINKS as The B-52s
WIFEKNIFE as The Pixies
PRINTS as The Fall
GARGOYLE as New Order
GENUINE CONNECTION as Roy Orbison
DITA & THE HURRICANES as Kiss
DJS LINDSEY GARDNER & ELENA CHILDERS
HOWIE PYRO’S ZOMBIE DISCOTHEQUE
NYC’s finest horror specialty vinyl DJs keep recently departed legend Howie Pyro’s annual party room alive by spinning their most exquisite spooky 45s all night long for your dancing pleasure!
TODD O PHONIC TODD (WFMU!)
CARLOS RENE (Mexico City NTS RADIO)
VEE VEE (ROTATION ROCK’N’SOUL RADIO)
MIKE DECAY (MIDNIGHT MONSTER HOP!)
AVI SPIVAK (REBEL ROUSER!)
DREW REDMOND (FADED DIGNITY!)
SICKNIK (SIKNICK PRODUCTIONS)
IRA OKSMAN!
TENOSH + MILES AKE & RUFFY TNT (Noche Romantica meets SF’s Discodelic Crew!)
GARY BALABAN HORROR CINEMA
NYC cinema fixture GARY BALABAN curates and screens a mix of slashers, B-movies, monster movies, and shorts from his legendary collection of 16mm reels!
WITCH ROOM by CULT PARTY
Our Brujas Coven returns hidden in the Knockdown Center Ruins for Tarot Readings and other mystical delights!
HALLOWEEN MAKEUP BOOTH (6PM ’til late)
Get your makeup done by professional SFX makeup artists BEN BORNSTEIN, CHRIS DOOLY, & ERIC ZAPATA!
INSTALLATIONS by B.A. MIALE, AMY FRANZ, SPACE OCTOPUS, and more!