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From October 13 onward, Jersey City’s fall 2026 calendar builds to the Grand Re-Opening Weekend of the restored Loew’s Jersey Theatre on November 13 and 14, with Trey Anastasio Band on the 13th, The War On Drugs on the 14th, and Jodeci on November 18. Along the way: Liberty Science Center’s Rocky Horror shadow cast and 21+ Halloween night (October 24 and 29), the Ghost of Uncle Joe’s at the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery on October 23 and 24, and on October 31 both the Downtown Halloween Family Bash and the Hudson County Fall Fest. The 12th Annual Jersey City Day of the Dead runs October 29 to November 1, with its main festival at Riverview-Fisk Park on Sunday, November 1, and the 3rd Annual Jersey City Mac & Cheese Festival crawls through Downtown on Saturday, November 7. Two weekly farmers markets run all season too: Riverview on Sundays through November 22, and the Historic Downtown market on Mondays and Thursdays.
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Halloween Family Bash and Hudson County Fall Fest
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Day of the Dead festival at Riverview-Fisk Park
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Mac & Cheese Festival food crawl
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Loew’s Jersey Theatre grand reopening
Jersey City runs about six versions of fall at once, roughly one per neighborhood. Downtown fills the Newark Avenue plaza. The Heights runs a Day of the Dead celebration out of its Sunday farmers market. Over on Pacific Avenue, the county throws a block party outside a brewery that started in a Hoboken apartment. And this year Journal Square gets something it hasn’t had in five years: the Loew’s Jersey Theatre, lit up again, with a grand reopening on November 13.
Between now and Thanksgiving there’s a citywide mac and cheese crawl, adults-only nights at Liberty Science Center, a rock show in a cemetery founded in 1829, and two big Halloween events on the same Saturday. Here’s all of it in order, every date checked against the organizer, the venue, or our own Halloween guide, with a link wherever the event has its own page, plus addresses and phone numbers for every stop.
What Events Are Happening in Jersey City in October 2026?
October in Jersey City ends with a full week of Halloween, and the weekends before it barely leave room to catch your breath. Everything below runs from October 13 onward.
| Date | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Thu, Oct 15 | Dark Side of the Planetarium, a Pink Floyd concert (sold out) | Liberty Science Center |
| Fri and Sat, Oct 23 and 24 | The Ghost of Uncle Joe’s | Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, 435 Newark Avenue |
| Sat, Oct 24, 7:30 p.m. | The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live shadow cast | Liberty Science Center |
| Thu, Oct 29, 6 to 10 p.m. | LSC After Dark: Covens (21+) | Liberty Science Center |
| Thu, Oct 29, 6 to 7 p.m. | Day of the Dead Ofrenda unveiling | Riverview-Fisk Park gazebo |
| Sat, Oct 31, noon to 8 p.m. | Halloween Family Bash | Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall and Plaza |
| Sat, Oct 31 | 5th Annual Hudson County Fall Fest | Pacific Avenue at 902 Brewing Co. |
| Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Riverview Farmers Market (weekly market) | Riverview-Fisk Park, 498 Palisade Avenue |
| Mondays and Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m. | Historic Downtown Farmers Market (weekly market) | Grove Street PATH Plaza |
Sources: Liberty Science Center, Riverview Farmers Market, Historic Downtown Special Improvement District, Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, The Jill Biggs Group Jersey City Halloween 2026 guide.
Halloween week is the busiest stretch of the season. Between October 29 and 31 the Heights unveils its Day of the Dead altar, Liberty Science Center turns into a 21+ costume party, and two neighborhoods throw daytime Halloween events on the same Saturday. After that, things slow down everywhere except Journal Square.
What Events Are Happening in Jersey City in November 2026?
November belongs to Journal Square, where the city’s most ornate building gets its audience back, while the rest of the calendar winds down toward Thanksgiving.
| Date | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Nov 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | 12th Annual Jersey City Day of the Dead festival | Riverview-Fisk Park |
| Sat, Nov 7, 1 to 5 p.m. | 3rd Annual Jersey City Mac & Cheese Festival | Check-in at Hudson Hall, 364 Marin Boulevard |
| Fri, Nov 13, 7:30 p.m. | Trey Anastasio Band opens the Loew’s Jersey Theatre | 54 Journal Square Plaza |
| Sat, Nov 14 | The War On Drugs, with Nation of Language | Loew’s Jersey Theatre |
| Sat, Nov 14, from 9:30 a.m. | NY Skyline Half Marathon, 10K, and 5K | Liberty State Park, 200 Morris Pesin Drive |
| Wed, Nov 18 | Jodeci | Loew’s Jersey Theatre |
| Sundays through Nov 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Riverview Farmers Market (weekly market) | Riverview-Fisk Park |
| Mondays and Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m. | Historic Downtown Farmers Market (weekly market) | Grove Street PATH Plaza |
Sources: Loew’s Jersey Theatre, Riverview Farmers Market, Jersey City Happy Hours and Lokel Group, Historic Downtown Special Improvement District.
November’s biggest date in the county, though, is a building.
When Does the Loew’s Jersey Theatre Reopen?
The Loew’s Jersey Theatre reopens with its Grand Re-Opening Weekend on Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14, 2026. Trey Anastasio Band opens the weekend on Friday, with doors at 6:30 p.m. and the show at 7:30; The War On Drugs plays Saturday, with Nation of Language opening; and R&B group Jodeci follows on Wednesday, November 18.
Grand Re-Opening · Loew’s Jersey Theatre
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The theater opened in 1929 as one of Loew’s five "Wonder Theatres" around New York and closed in 2021 for a full restoration of its interiors, exteriors, and production systems. Five years is a long intermission, even for a movie palace. It returns as a live venue holding 2,600 to 4,000 guests, under general manager Bruce Wheeler, who previously held senior roles at Central Park SummerStage, the Beacon Theatre, and the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester.
You may already know the building from the movies: its marquee and the alley beside it appear in Joker, one of the productions in our guide to movies and TV filmed in Jersey City. The theater sits directly across from the Journal Square Transportation Center, so the PATH drops you at the front door.
Two weeks before Journal Square’s big night, the Heights hosts the city’s most meaningful fall celebration.
When Is the Jersey City Day of the Dead Celebration?
The 12th Annual Jersey City Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos) celebration runs Thursday, October 29 through Sunday, November 1, 2026, hosted by the Riverview Farmers Market. It’s a citywide celebration of life and memory, and one of the most moving events on the fall calendar.
Thursday, October 29 · 6 to 7 p.m.
The Ofrenda unveiling
Riverview-Fisk Park gazebo
Sunday, November 1 · 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The main festival
Riverview-Fisk Park, 498 Palisade Avenue
It opens on Thursday, October 29, from 6 to 7 p.m., when the community’s large memorial altar, the Ofrenda, is built and unveiled in the Riverview-Fisk Park gazebo. The main festival follows on Sunday, November 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Riverview-Fisk Park, 498 Palisade Avenue. You may see October 30 to November 2 in other listings; those were last year’s dates.
The organizers post updates on Instagram and take RSVPs on Facebook, and the full 2026 plan is on the Riverview Farmers Market’s Day of the Dead page.
Six days after the festival, the city’s most delicious fundraiser sets off from Downtown.
When Is the Jersey City Mac & Cheese Festival?
The 3rd Annual Jersey City Mac & Cheese Festival is Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 1 to 5 p.m., presented by Jersey City Happy Hours and the Lokel Group. It’s a citywide food crawl, so there’s no single venue: you check in at Hudson Hall, 364 Marin Boulevard, between 1 and 3 p.m., pick up a Mac Passport, and work your way through the participating restaurants at your own pace, rain or shine.
When
Saturday, November 7, 2026 · 1 to 5 p.m. · rain or shine
Check in
Hudson Hall, 364 Marin Boulevard, between 1 and 3 p.m.
First stops
Tickets
$16.92 to $69.92 including fees; prices go up after October 18
Benefits
The Community FoodBank of New Jersey
The first confirmed stops are the Ashford, Boots & Bones, Rustique, Hudson Hall, and Wonder, with more restaurants being added. Your passport gets marked at every stop, which makes it the most official document most of us will ever earn for eating. Tickets run $16.92 to $69.92 including fees, and prices go up after Sunday, October 18. Part of the proceeds goes to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. Tickets are only sold through the festival’s official site.
For a night out that ends at a planetarium instead of a passport stamp, Liberty Science Center has you covered.
What’s Happening at Liberty Science Center This Fall?
Liberty Science Center has three October nights built for adults, inside the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium and the museum after hours.
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Dark Side of the Planetarium
On Thursday, October 15, Run Rabbit Run, one of the region’s leading Pink Floyd live projects, performs The Dark Side of the Moon in the planetarium; that show is already sold out.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a live shadow cast
Nine days later, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, Rocky Cosmic Light Cabaret brings a live shadow cast to a full screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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LSC After Dark: Covens
Then on Thursday, October 29, from 6 to 10 p.m., LSC After Dark: Covens turns the museum into a 21+ Halloween night with costumes, dancing, a spooky vendor market, laser and planetarium shows, and trick-or-treating through the exhibit halls. If you’ve ever wanted the touch tunnel without a field trip in line behind you, this is your night.
Liberty Science Center
Address222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Phone201-200-1000
Weblsc.org
The kids get their turn, with more pumpkins, two days later on Halloween.
What’s Happening in Jersey City for Halloween 2026?
Jersey City spreads Halloween across a full week this year, and the 31st falls on a Saturday.
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The Ghost of Uncle Joe’s
Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24, at the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, 435 Newark Avenue. Local musicians dress up and perform as famous bands, and the show raises money for the cemetery, which was founded in 1829 by New Jersey’s first cemetery company and has been kept going entirely by volunteers since 2008. It’s the only tribute act in town with a 19th-century headstone for a backdrop. Lineup and ticket updates are posted on the event’s Instagram, @theghostofunclejoes.
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The Halloween Family Bash
Saturday, October 31, from noon to 8 p.m. on the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall and Plaza, run by the Historic Downtown Special Improvement District, with games, a corn maze, face painting, pumpkins, a bouncy house, and candy.
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The 5th Annual Hudson County Fall Fest
Also on Saturday, October 31, on Pacific Avenue between Carteret and Forrest outside 902 Brewing Co., hosted by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs. Expect trick-or-treating, train rides, obstacle courses, face painting, balloon art, glitter tattoos, sports games, local artisan vendors, and live music on two stages, rain or shine. Reserve tickets through the county’s Fall Fest page.
902 Brewing takes its name from the apartment at 902 Washington Street in Hoboken where its founders took their home brewing to the next level, which makes the Fall Fest the one Hoboken-to-Jersey City success story nobody in either city argues about.
For adults, the official Jersey City Halloween Bar Crawl starts at Boots & Bones on Halloween night. For trick-or-treating neighborhoods and the full weekend, see our Jersey City Halloween 2026 guide, and if you’re heading next door, our Hoboken Halloween 2026 guide has the Ragamuffin Parade route.
Costumes require fuel, and Downtown has one bakery that takes that job seriously.
Where Can You Get Fall Drinks and Pastries in Jersey City?
Downtown’s cafés have their fall menus out, and two are worth planning a morning around.
Downtown · Hudson Street
Maman
Maman, the French bakery and café on Hudson Street, has one of the fullest fall menus in the city: pumpkin pie, maple French toast, vanilla honeybutter lattes, and a glazed apple fritter iced matcha latte, plus a pumpkin pie croissant cube, a pumpkin spice carrot cake, and a spiced apple danish. It’s a natural first stop before a walk along the waterfront.
Harsimus Cove · Jersey Avenue
The Hive
The Hive brought its Hoboken formula to Jersey Avenue in Harsimus Cove, near Hamilton Park, kids’ play area included. The fall menu features a pumpkin brew (vanilla cold brew under pumpkin cold foam), a banana pancake latte, a brown sugar cinnamon chai, and a caramel apple matcha, which makes it the obvious coffee stop before a lap around Hamilton Park.
For produce, cider, and baked goods straight from New Jersey farms, the city’s two fall farmers markets are the better bet.
Where Are the Farmers Markets in Jersey City This Fall?
Jersey City’s two fall farmers markets are weekly markets that run all season rather than one-day events, one in the Heights and one Downtown.
The Heights · Sundays
Riverview Farmers Market
The Riverview Farmers Market sets up every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, at Riverview-Fisk Park, 498 Palisade Avenue in the Heights. Its 2026 season runs from May 3 through November 22. It’s been running since 2010, when a skeptic at a community meeting told its founders farmers would never come to the Heights, and it matches SNAP and EBT benefits. "Rain or shine" in late November is less a promise than a dare, so bring gloves. Details are on the market’s site.
Downtown · Mondays and Thursdays
Historic Downtown Farmers Market
The Historic Downtown Farmers Market runs Mondays and Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Grove Street PATH Plaza, operated by the Historic Downtown Special Improvement District. It’s free to attend, with produce, baked goods, and local favorites for the week ahead.
Historic Downtown Special Improvement District
Address344 Grove Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone201-547-3554
And for the full pumpkin-patch experience, you’ll need a short drive north.
Where Can You Go Pumpkin Picking Near Jersey City?
The nearest full pick-your-own pumpkin patch is in Bergen County. Demarest Farms in Hillsdale is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for its 2026 season, and picking is booked online through the farm’s site. Closer to home, Hoboken’s free Movies Under the Stars night on Sunday, October 25 includes a pumpkin patch hosted by Alessio’s Cafe; our Hoboken fall guide has the details.
A few of the season’s biggest events have already happened, and they’re worth knowing for next year.
What Fall Events Already Happened in Jersey City This Year?
Several of Jersey City’s signature fall events took place in September and early October 2026. Here’s when each one ran this year, so you know what to look for next fall.
| 2026 Date | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Thu, Oct 1 to Sun, Oct 4 | 37th Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST), themed "Unbounded Nature" | 150-plus venues in all six wards |
| Fri, Oct 2 to Sun, Oct 4 | JCAST Handmade Market | Grove Street PATH Plaza |
| Sat, Oct 3 | JC Harvest Festival and 12th Annual Cultural Diversity Festival | Hamilton Park |
| Sat, Oct 3 | Fall Garden Fest | RCE Learning Garden, Lincoln Park |
| Sun, Oct 4 | JC Green Half Marathon, 10K, and 5K | Lincoln Park |
| Sun, Oct 4 | NYRR Jersey City 5K | Jersey City |
| Sun, Oct 4 | Jersey City Mutzfest, benefiting the Hoboken Family Alliance | 902 Brewing Co., 101 Pacific Avenue |
Sources: Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, Historic Downtown Special Improvement District, JCFamilies, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hudson County, Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs, CityTri, Hoboken Family Alliance.
JCAST is the big one to plan around. The citywide open-studio festival has run since 1990, when it started as the Downtown Jersey City Artists’ Studio Tour, and this year’s edition opened more than 200 artist studios across the city over the first weekend of October.
Common Questions
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Highlights include Liberty Science Center’s adult nights (October 15, 24, and 29), the Ghost of Uncle Joe’s at the Harsimus Cemetery (October 23 and 24), the Day of the Dead Ofrenda unveiling (October 29), and two family Halloween events on October 31: the Halloween Family Bash and the Hudson County Fall Fest.
The 37th Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST) ran Thursday, October 1 through Sunday, October 4, 2026, with more than 150 venues across all six wards. JCAST began in 1990 as the Downtown Jersey City Artists’ Studio Tour.
Jersey City Mutzfest took place on Sunday, October 4, 2026, at 902 Brewing Co., 101 Pacific Avenue, benefiting the Hoboken Family Alliance.
The Loew’s Jersey Theatre’s Grand Re-Opening Weekend is Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14, 2026, with Trey Anastasio Band on Friday and The War On Drugs on Saturday. Tickets are sold through loewsjersey.com.
October 29 through November 1, 2026, hosted by the Riverview Farmers Market. The Ofrenda is unveiled on Thursday, October 29, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Riverview-Fisk Park gazebo, and the main festival is Sunday, November 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Riverview-Fisk Park.
Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 1 to 5 p.m. It is a food crawl with check-in at Hudson Hall, 364 Marin Boulevard, between 1 and 3 p.m., and part of the proceeds benefits the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
The Halloween Family Bash on the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall and Plaza (noon to 8 p.m.) and the Hudson County Fall Fest on Pacific Avenue at 902 Brewing Co. both take place on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The Fall Fest is free with a reserved ticket.
It is a weekly farmers market, open every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, at Riverview-Fisk Park, 498 Palisade Avenue, from May 3 through November 22, 2026. Its organizers also host the Jersey City Day of the Dead celebration.
The Historic Downtown Farmers Market runs Mondays and Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Grove Street PATH Plaza and is free to attend.
Maman (70 Hudson Street) serves vanilla honeybutter lattes and a glazed apple fritter iced matcha latte this fall, and The Hive (615 Jersey Avenue) has a pumpkin cold foam cold brew and a caramel apple matcha.
Thinking About Living in Jersey City?
Journal Square is about to get its anchor back, and every neighborhood on this list lives a little differently. The neighborhood’s median sale price was $680,000 in August, according to our August 2026 Jersey City market report, which breaks down all six submarkets. If a fall weekend here has you wondering which part of the city fits you, our Jersey City community guide is the place to start, and our team can show you what’s for sale on the blocks you liked.
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Last Updated: October 2026
Sources: Loew’s Jersey Theatre (loewsjersey.com), event listings and FAQ; Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (jerseycityarts.org) and Newark Arts, 2026 JCAST listing; City of Jersey City, JCAST history; JCFamilies (jcfamilies.com); Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hudson County; Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs (jerseycityculture.org); CityTri and Sustainable Jersey City; Hoboken Family Alliance, Jersey City Mutzfest; Pollstar, Loew’s Jersey Theatre Grand Re-Opening, September 2026; NJArts.net, Loew’s Jersey Theatre reopening, 2026; Riverview Farmers Market (riverviewfarmersmarket.org), Day of the Dead 2026 announcement and market schedule; Jersey City Mac & Cheese Festival 2026 (jcmacfest.com), presented by Jersey City Happy Hours and the Lokel Group; Community FoodBank of New Jersey (cfbnj.org); Historic Downtown Special Improvement District (jcdowntown.org), Farmers Market and Halloween Family Bash; Liberty Science Center (lsc.org), LSC After Dark; Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs (hudsoncountyculturalaffairs.org and visithudson.org), Hudson County Fall Fest, Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, and 902 Brewing; NJMEP, 902 Brewing company profile; City of Hoboken, 2026 Hoboken Art Month announcement; Demarest Farms (demarestfarms.com); Maman and The Hive business sites; Jersey Digs, The Hive coverage; The Jill Biggs Group, Jersey City Halloween 2026 guide and August 2026 Jersey City market report.
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