Mayor Jimmy Davis announced that the Bergen Point Fall Festival is set for Saturday, October 17, 2015 on Broadway from 5th Street to Cottage Street, from 12:00 noon until 6:00 p.m. The event is hosted by the Bergen Point Merchants in conjunction with the Bayonne Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ). Mayor Davis said, “The festival will be a fun community event to remind Bayonne residents and others of the vitality of the Bergen Point Shopping District. We invite everyone to join in this community celebration.”

The Bergen Point Fall Festival will feature music and other entertainment, great food, inflatable rides, balloon sculpture, sand art, face painting, a dog costume contest, and more. Fifty street vendors and non-profit organizations will have booths and tables at the event. The live music will be provided by four bands: The Blue Dawg Band, the High Strung Band, the Group Therapy Band, and Mark Byrne’s Band. Additional entertainment will be provided by Dance With Me, Melissa Rada’s Kid Performers, and the Yoga Studio.

The dog costume contest will take place at 12:00 noon. Registration for the contest starts at 11:30 a.m. Pet owners should bring their dogs in the animals’ favorite costumes. Prizes will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners.

There will also be additional events that are scheduled to coincide with the festival.

The Windmill Alliance will host a car and motorcycle show from 12:00 noon until 5:00 p.m. in the Trinity Church parking lot, located off Broadway on West 5th Street. The car and motorcycle show will include food, beverages, and pumpkin painting. At 4:00 p.m., trophies will be awarded for Best in Show for Best Car and Best Motorcycle.

The Bayonne Historical Society will host a history fair at the Bayonne Community Museum at 9th Street and Broadway. From 10:00 a.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m., the society will host an Antiques and Collectibles Appraisal Day. The Historical Society will host a two-hour landmarks bus tour of Bayonne from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The bus will leave from the Bayonne Community Museum. For bus tour tickets, please contact Lee Fahley at 201-436-5978. Otherwise, reservations must be made online through the Hoboken Museum website at https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/index.php/events/calendar-of-events/october. Another Historical Society activity will be a maritime art exhibit featuring the works of John A. Noble and Frederic S. Cozzens. There will be a ribbon-cutting for the exhibit at 1:30 p.m. At 2:00 p.m., Erin Urban, founding Executive Director of the Noble Maritime Collection at Sailors’ Snug Harbor, will talk about her years of work with the Noble collection, and the recent purchase of the Robbins Reef Lighthouse by the Noble Collection.