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The Great PupKin Costume Contest returns to Fort Greene Park

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It’s the Great PupKin Costume Contest and Halloween Fest in Fort Greene on Oct. 28.

Get your costume in order for yourself and your pooch for this paw-fectly ghoulish costume contest. The annual canine costume contest is back at Fort Greene Park this year and is in coordination with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy’s Halloween Festival.

The Great PupKin Costume Contest and Halloween Festival, Oct. 28 at 11:30 am. Free. (Rain date is Oct. 29, 11:30 am.)

Fort Greene Park Visitor Center [enter park at Myrtle Avenue and Washington Park in Fort Greene, (718) 722–3218].

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