2021 HALLOWEEN DECORATING EVENT

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

In first place - 123 Cleveland Avenue. In second Place - 418 East Hudson Street. A tie for third place - 609 West Walnut St and 135 East Walnut Street.

Honorable mentions go to 88 Alabama Street, 419 West Beech Street, and 29 Indiana Avenue.

Thank you to the following businesses who supplied gifts and goodies for our winners

• Seaside Celebrations 
• LAI Life Products 
• Best Nails
• Brixx and Barley
• Healing Oasis 
• Minuteman Press 
• Luna and Soul 
• Cybernet 
• Club Pilates in Oceanside 

The City of Long Beach and the Chamber of Commerce are once again partnering to present the 2nd Annual Halloween Decorating Contest for homes and businesses. If Halloween is your favorite holiday and you love to see how creative the residents and businesses of Long Beach can be, you won’t want to miss this Spook-tacular event beginning click here to enter.

We encourage visitors and residents to tour the beautiful streets and businesses of Long Beach starting October 22 through November 1 using the difgital map below, which will post on October 22nd @ 5pm. We encourage everyone to make a night of it, visit our local stores and stop into one of Long Beach's amazing restaurants for dinner.

Download a pdf of the map here

Vote for the “People’s Choice” best decorated house online between Thursday, October 28 and Monday, November 1.

Vote for the Residents on the City FaceBook page  at www.facebook.com/LongBeachNewYork

Vote for the Businesses on the Chamber FaceBook page at www.facebook.com/LongBeachNYChamberOfCommerce 

Whether you are decorating your house as a family or riding through town to visit the decorated homes and businesses, we hope you will find the event frightfully fun!

TO ENTER

We invite the residents and business owners of Long Beach to show their love for Halloween and do their best to “OUT BOO” the other competitors! Let’s see who will win bragging rights for the best decorated house and best decorated business. Registration to participate opens through Friday, October 15. Simply fill out the online application by clicking here, decorate your home or business and be sure to be spooky during the judging period. See rules and important dates below.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS

•  Participation is open to all City of Long Beach residents.
•  Entry is FREE but you must fill out the online application.
•  Entry applications must be received no later than 5:00pm on Friday, October 15 in order to appear on the digital map.
•  Judging for residents homes will be based on “curb appeal” as viewed from the street only. Therefore, only those decorations located on the street side of the property will be judged (corner lots will be judged from both streets). Judges will not enter the property to view back or side yards.Contest is for exterior decorations only, including decorations in windows that are visible from the exterior. Judging will be done from outside the home only.
• Participants should ensure that all lights, animations and spooky decorations are in place and activated for photographs and the judging period from 6:00pm – 9:00pm, October 22 through November 1.
• Judging criteria will include
  • Unique design and creative use of lights and decorations
  • Story-line or theme
  • Display and placement of decorations
  • Overall presentation
• Judging for local businesses will be based on “creativity” as viewed from both inside and outside of the business.
• Homes professionally decorated will not be accepted.
• Homes must be accessible to be viewed from the public street.
• Participants agree to have one or more photos of their decorated residence exterior to be used on social media.
• Participants agree to have their address posted on the digital location map of decorated homes and businesses which will be placed on the City’s and Chamber’s website and social media.
• Judges will be picking their favorite homes nightly from 6:00pm to 9:00pm Thursday, October 28 through Sunday, October 31.
• Judging for businesses will take place from  Thursday, October 29 - Sunday October 31.
• People’s Choice winner will be determined by the amount of likes received between October 28 and Noon on November 1, 2021. for residents www.facebook.com/LongBeachNewYork, for businesses www.facebook.com/LongBeachNYChamberOfCommerce
• Participants are asked to keep your decorations through November 1 so that the community can enjoy them by following the digital map.