Bay Ridge’s first annual Great Pumpkin Sail and Oyster Fest a success
Sail away.
Halloween came nearly a week early at the Eco Dock at the 69th Street Pier, where the first annual Great Pumpkin Sail & Oyster Festival was celebrated on Sunday, October 26. Children and their families savored free food, learned about oysters, and enjoyed face painting, crafts, and most importantly, pumpkin picking and taking a tour of a sailboat.
“This is the first ever time we’re doing this,” said Councilmember Vincent Gentile, who organized the event with the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (MWA), the Bay Ridge Arts and Cultural Alliance and the Scandinavian East Coast Museum. “We’ve had a lot of Halloween celebrations in the past but this is the first ever that we’ve had on the water. We also have the Clearwater sailboat which is here for the kids to tour. It’s the first ever pumpkin patch on the water.”