NYC's biggest, best, and most fun underground Halloween party tradition, annually since 2006, the New York Night Train Haunted Hop, saw over 3000 revelers last year and is raising the bar even higher for 2023! Jonathan Toubin’s annual record hop has evolved over 18 editions into an epic multi-room indoor/outdoor music festival/dance party featuring nonstop live acts (36 bands!), dancing (10 DJs!), horror cinema (projected from 16mm reels), performance, art installations, visuals, decor galore, food, drink, and the annual $500 costume contest! Eight straight action-packed hours of nonstop thrills and chills in a gargantuan haunted house sprawled out across a labyrinth of unique party environments! Free shuttle back and forth from the Jefferson L Train stop all night long! Dress up! Come early! Stay late! Make a night of it!

THE PHANTASMAGORICAL BALLROOM Hours of headlining acts playing original material concluding with a massive dance party! BLACK LIPS THE SPITS THE VOLUPTUOUS HORROR OF KAREN BLACK CHRISTEENE & HER FKKN BAND (MIDNIGHT SET!) CUMGIRL8 BIG GIRL as ABBA Late night Monster Mashing with JONATHAN TOUBIN and his MUMMIES A GO GO 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! MYSTERY LIGHTS as DEAD MOON THICK as THE MISFITS DADDY LONG LEGS as SCREAMIN’ LORD SUTCH 95 BULLS as DEVO MOONWALKS as ESG TONY & THE KIKI as ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ABBY JEANNE as LULU THE TRASH BAGS as THE GERMS GNARCISSISTS as BUTTHOLE SURFERS FLASYD as L7 SUO & THE BIFFERS as AMYL & THE SNIFFERS CATCHER as THE BIRTHDAY PARTY RAVAGERS as LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH TILDEN as OASIS SID SIMONS as DAVID BOWIE TITS DICK ASS as NIRVANA MALA VISTA as THE UNDERTONES COMATOSED as BAUHAUS PATTON MAGEE (Nude Party) / ALANA AMRAM BAND ad THE DOORS FIREWALL as INXS MIGHTY FINE as PRINCE CERTAIN DEATH as NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE MARIALINA as TINA TURNER JEWELRY as THE RAMONES THE KNIGHT SHADES as THE KINKS ALEXANDRA BLAIR as CHER WIFEKNIFE as THE BREEDERS WHAAT as MORPHINE GARGOYLE as SUICIDE PRINTS as SUBURBAN LAWNS 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! JOSH STYLES (SMASHED! BLOCKED!) CARLOS RENE (Mexico City NTS RADIO) PRIMO (SF OLDIES NIGHT!) TODD O PHONIC TODD (WFMU!) VEE VEE (ROTATION ROCK’N’SOUL RADIO) MIKE DECAY (MIDNIGHT MONSTER HOP!) AVI SPIVAK (REBEL ROUSER!) DREW REDMOND (FADED DIGNITY!)

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!

INSTALLATIONS by KEMBRA PFAHLER, B.A. MIALE, AMY FRANZ and more!