Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, October 23, 2026.
Merchant’s House Museum leads a candlelit walk through the rooms of its preserved 19th-century home, with the house’s history and ghost stories shaping the route. The 6:30 p.m. Friday tour offers a more intimate Halloween outing than a staged scare.
The Red Pavilion’s Halloween edition of its house jazz night folds hexes into its East-meets-West repertoire, starting at 7 p.m. in Bushwick.
Gold Sounds stacks six punk and hardcore acts on one bill, including San Diego’s Axe Collector and Get A Gun’s first show.
Kyle Carr Scheurich brings true ribs, rawhide to CPR, a performance framed around the body’s materials and the venue’s adventurous live-art practice.
Green Lung Studio reworks Hamlet as G.O.A.T., a small-room adaptation with a title that hints at its irreverent angle on the familiar tragedy.
Brooklyn Bowl puts Space Bacon and Dizgo on the same 8 p.m. bill, with DJ Greenie of Lotus joining a jam-forward night in Williamsburg.
Close Up hosts vibraphonist Simon Moullier with Lex Korten, Rick Rosato and Koleby Royston, a compact late-night jazz lineup built around nimble interplay.
Shibari & Strings brings rope performance and live music together at the Red Pavilion in a Through the Looking Glass program.
The Slipper Room’s midnight bill layers bawdy variety, Lydia Vengeance’s hosting and a post-show dance party into an East Side after-hours plan.
DROM’s Yoi Toki party leans into future funk and vaporwave for a Halloween set built around the internet-born sound’s synthetic nostalgia.