This year's Parade will be on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 @ 7 p.m.
All Those in Costume are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of Different Types of Music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation in the Nation's Most Wildly Creative Public Participatory Event in the Greatest City in the World!
Live: On 6th Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street from 7:00pm - 10:30pm
TV: WPIX CHANNEL 11: 7:30pm - 10:00pm, and on NY 1: 8:00pm - 9:30pm
We are proud to announce that this program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Source: http://www.halloween-nyc.com/