Traffic Alert Issued For Yorktown Costume Parade

YORKTOWN, N.Y. - Several streets in Yorktown will be a sea of costumed kids - not cars - this weekend as officials shut down some roadways for the annual Halloween Parade.

Yorktown came out for its annual Halloween parade and fall carnival last year at Jack DeVito Memorial Field and Track.
Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

Zak Failla

10/26/2017 12:48 p.m.

The Yorktown Lions Club’s annual Halloween Costume Parade will be held from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, kicking off at the Yorktown Plaza Park, with the procession making its way to the Jack DeVito Veterans Memorial Field for a holiday celebration.

As a precaution, the Yorktown Police Department will temporarily be closing select streets during the duration of the Halloween parade.

Commerce Street will be closed between Veterans Road and Downing Drive;
Veterans Road will be closed between Commerce Street and Maple Hill Street;
Commerce Street will be closed at Downing Drive;
Hanover Street will be closed at Commerce Street.

The Halloween carnival is scheduled to conclude at approximately 4 p.m. The rain date is the following Sunday, Oct. 29, though that would only include the carnival, not parade.

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