Nightlife
House of Yes Turns Industry City Into a Vampire Blood Rave
Two nights, ten stages, and a real blood rave inside Industry City
The invitation is simple. Show up thirsty. The Vampire Ball is back at Industry City for two nights, and this year House of Yes is not throwing a party so much as occupying a warehouse complex.
Friday, October 30 is Mischief Night. Saturday, October 31 is All Hallows Eve. Across both nights, the Sunset Park complex at 67 34th Street becomes a macabre music and arts festival spread across ten stages, with a live vampire band, roughly 30 dancers, burlesque cabaret, cemetery-themed installations, and a Cursed Potion Bar. The official listing also promises something no other Halloween party in the city is advertising. A real live blood rave.
The event is the brainchild of House of Yes, working with executive producer David Kiss, who has steered the creative direction since 2024. What started as a single-night gathering has grown into the largest Halloween gathering in the city, and this year it carries an extra credential. The Vampire Ball is the official warm-up party and afterparty for the Village Halloween Parade, which means the creatures of the night have somewhere to go before and after the march up Sixth Avenue.
Show up thirsty.
The Rooms
The lineup reads like a map of the underground. Eli Escobar, Wreckno, Moore Kismet, Todd Edwards, and LSDXOXO anchor the bill, joined by Alice Longyu Gao, Andhim, Awen, and more. The rooms each have their own identity. The Fangtasia Room runs on AK Sports, Eli Escobar, LSDXOXO, and Rose Kourts. The Synthicide x Ritmo Fatale Room goes darker with Andi, Kendal, Kittin, Kontravoid playing live, and an 80s Baby live performance. The Ultrasonic Bussy Room has Baby Wolf, Jubilee, LeCamille, and Wreckno. The Rosa Perreo Room runs Neo Perreo all night. And the CVLTVS House of Pain Room brings David Kiss and G I N A plus the dungeon, the dominatrixes, the kink performances.
That last room tells you what kind of night this is. The dress code suggestions run from vamp chic and Lestat elegance to Blade rave, Fangtasia, fangbangers, fetish and fangs, Yaaaassferatu, and True Blood trailer trash. Red and black, with a dash of danger. This is not a costume contest. It is a costume commitment.
Doors open at 9pm and the night runs to 5am. It is 21 and over with valid ID, no re-entry, no refunds. Night one tickets start around $35, with night two running higher. Two-night passes are available for the committed. The official listing puts it simply. Twice the blood, twice the ball. As RA's listing notes, the promoters behind the night include Ladyfag, House of Yes Presents, and the Vampire Ball crew itself, a coalition that explains why the programming feels bigger than any single venue's Halloween party.
Getting there is part of the plan. Industry City sits in Sunset Park, a straight shot on the D, N, or R trains, and the complex is built for crowds. The entrance is ADA accessible, strobe lights run throughout the event, and all restrooms are gender inclusive. For a party operating at this scale, the logistics are as considered as the lineup.
The House of Yes Touch
What separates this from every other big-room Halloween party is the production philosophy. House of Yes has spent a decade building a reputation as the city's kings and queens of theatrical, immersive nightlife, and the Vampire Ball is that sensibility scaled up to a warehouse complex. Thirty dancers. Multiple burlesque performances. Installations you walk through, not past. The safer-spaces policy is stated upfront and meant, with zero tolerance for harassment and gender-inclusive restrooms throughout.
The scale is the story. Most Halloween parties rent a room and decorate it. This one takes over an industrial complex and builds a world inside it, then runs it for two nights at full tilt. When the parade ends downtown and the costumed masses scatter across the city, the ones who planned ahead will already be in Sunset Park, fangs in, waiting for the blood rave.
Twice the blood, twice the ball.
We have spent Halloween in four-day marathon rooms and split across two wild nights, but nothing else on the calendar attempts this kind of total transformation. Ten stages. Two nights. One rule. Do not come as yourself.