Face paint by Natalia Jedlinksa | Photo: Jonathan King
Thursday, October 29, 2026
By NYU News/New York University
No university does Halloween quite like NYU. With Manhattan Community Board 2, our Office of Community Engagement hosts a tamer, cuter alternative to the Village Halloween Parade for local families, a beloved tradition in its 36th year. Our students are skilled artists of pumpkin painting, fortune-telling, and makeup, and our faculty experts are willing to lend their expertise to shed light on all kinds of eerie phenomena. Our mascot loves a good prank.
This year, the NYU News and social media teams went all out for New York City's favorite holiday, packing trick-or-treat bags with the NYU baseball team, haunting the neighborhood's most elaborately decorated stoops, and interviewing anyone we could find about various ways to embrace spooky season. Here's a roundup of some of those efforts to carry you through Halloweekend and beyond.
Costume Trend Report: Halloween 2026
Our interns spoke with fellow students about what they'll be wearing this weekend—and which costumes are overdone.
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Video by Kiara Mujica (Gallatin '27) via @newyorkuniversity/YouTube
Why Life Can Be Scarier Than a Slasher Film
Italian Studies assistant professor Andrea Capra's research and teaching focuses on what he calls "ordinary horror"—the experience of involuntary powerlessness in the face of disturbing nonfictional developments. Who needs the horror genre when the world is full of catastrophe?
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Video by David Song via @newyorkuniversity/YouTube
3D-Printed Pumpkins and Treats
This seasonal demo shows off the capabilities of NYU's LaGuardia Studio, which serves students, faculty, researchers, engineers, medical and health care professionals, designers, artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals whose projects need customized fabrication, prototyping, visualization and more. Did we mention the gummy bears are made out of a material designed to mimic human tissue?
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Video by David Song via @newyorkuniversity/YouTube
Cursed! Magic in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
An exhibition at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores how rituals and magic were used in everyday life for the societies that flourished between 2000 BCE and 300 CE. The show includes an appearance by the demon Pazuzu, who appears very differently from how he did in The Exorcist.
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Video by David Song via @newyorkuniversity/YouTube
Does Changing Your Clock Turn You Into a Zombie?
Yes, you will get an extra hour of sleep on Halloween night this year, but at what cost? In July, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent. But research shows that daylight saving time doesn’t actually save energy or increase productivity. Instead, sleep researchers like Susan Kohl Malone agree that daylight standard time is more aligned with our biology.
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Video by David Song via @newyorkuniversity/YouTube
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