Westbury's October Fits Between 199 and 360 Post Avenue

The Village of Westbury's Fall 2026 newsletter lists ten activities between mid-September and mid-November. Four of them happen on Post Avenue itself: the BID street fair, the Homecoming parade, the Seniors bazaar and the Recreation Halloween event. The list leaves out the village's busiest stage, The Space at Westbury at 250 Post Ave. It also leaves out Post 270, a new dinner room a short walk up the avenue at 272 Post Ave. Put all of it in order by date and street number and Westbury's October comes down to one stretch of main street. Almost any evening this month can hold an event, a meal and a show without moving the car.

The Fixed Point at 250 Post Avenue

The Space carries the most dates of anything on the avenue. The venue's upcoming calendar runs most of the weekends from now until Thanksgiving:

1. Saturday, October 3. Lou Neglia Kickboxing. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.
2. Sunday, October 4. Anupam Kher & Swaroop Sampat at 8 p.m.
3. Saturday, October 17. Streetfighter/Peter Baron, a Peter Frampton tribute, at 7:30 p.m.
4. Saturday, October 24. A double bill at 8 p.m. The calendar heading lists Return to Paradise & Gold Dust Woman, but the linked ticket page names AWAKEN & Return to Paradise, so check the lineup before you buy.
5. Friday, October 30. A Candlelight Beatles tribute.
6. Saturday, October 31. Half Step, playing the music of the Grateful Dead.

November keeps going with Sasy on the 14th, Foreign Journey and Never Say Goodbye on the 21st, and a show revisiting the Concert for Bangladesh on the 28th.

Most of these start between 7 and 8 p.m. That timing makes the restaurants a few doors away part of the plan.

Dinner Is Now Two Doors Up

The biggest change on the block this year is at 272 Post Ave. Post 270 opened in the space that used to hold the nightclub Sambuca. Newsday's review, updated March 1, 2026, reports that co-owners Falysha Pierre-Lys, Lionel Sejour and Jean Mingot spent two years renovating the room and kept only the marble wraparound bar. The menu mixes Caribbean, soul food and international dishes. Crispy oxtail empanadas cost $25, and jerk lamb chops and gochujang-glazed octopus round out the appetizers. Most main courses fall between $35 and $45, with a $110 dry-aged rib-eye at the top. Bartenders finish whiskey cocktails with hickory smoke.

Hours matter for a show night. Post 270 opens at 5 p.m., stays open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, closes at 11 p.m. on Sundays and Tuesday through Thursday, and is closed Mondays. That leaves time for a full dinner before a 7:30 or 8 p.m. curtain on any October weekend.

Post 270 is one of several confirmed choices along the avenue. Listed by street number, a pre-show dinner looks like this:

• CENA 081, 103 Post Ave. Neapolitan cooking, especially wood-fired pizza and handmade pasta. Reservations are on its website.
• Monroe's, 199 Post Ave. An Italian restaurant with brunch, cocktails and live events, open Tuesday through Sunday.
• Nana's Ice Cream & Coffee House, 225A Post Ave. Coffee and dessert, and it hosts events of its own. It held a Prince karaoke night on July 31.
• Cafe Gino, 237 Post Ave. An Italian restaurant and pizzeria, with wine and dessert menus on its website.
• Casa Kahlo, 238 Post Ave. Mexican food, including tacos, enchiladas and dishes to share. It runs a weekday bar happy hour and weekend DJ and brunch programming. It fills the address where Galleria Ristorante closed in 2024.
• Little Mexico, 280 Post Ave. Tacos, tortas and huaraches, with margarita and sangria specials.

Three of these, at 225A, 237 and 238, sit within about a dozen street numbers of The Space at 250. Post 270 is at 272 and Little Mexico is at 280. Dinner, a show and dessert afterward all fit on the same block face or the one across the street.

The Same Street, Closed for a Parade

On two October Saturdays, the stretch that runs on theater nights becomes the village's public space.

Saturday, October 10 is Westbury Schools Homecoming. The day starts with a homecoming breakfast at 8 a.m. The parade goes down Post Avenue at noon, and the football game follows at the high school at 2 p.m. No show at The Space is listed for that night, which leaves the evening open for a late table at any of the restaurants above.

Saturday, October 24 brings the Westbury Seniors Old Time Country Bazaar to 360 Post Avenue from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The newsletter lists baked goods, lunch, crafts, raffles, a 50-50, white elephant collectibles and vendors. That evening The Space has its 8 p.m. double bill. A morning at the bazaar and a night at the concert hall happen about a hundred street numbers apart on the same avenue.

The season started the same way. The Westbury B.I.D. Street Fair took over Post Avenue from Rockland Street to Union Avenue on September 26. The BID advertised vendors, food trucks, live music, a petting zoo, a children's market and the Zabo Circus. October's parade and bazaar keep the street in use between that fair and Halloween.

Halloween on a Single Stretch

October 31 shows the pattern most clearly. Here is how the day lines up along the avenue:

The Recreation event runs for one hour, and the village's listing doesn't mention a street closure or trick-or-treating along Post Avenue. Call the Recreation Department at (516) 334-5560 for details. A family can finish at 348 Post by 5:30 p.m. Then a parent with a babysitter, or an older crowd, can walk south past 272 and 250 for dinner and the show. The night before, Friday the 30th, offers a quieter version with the Candlelight Beatles tribute at the same address.

A Few Blocks Off the Avenue

A few fall events sit just off Post Avenue. Each one is close enough to pair with an evening on the main street.

Westbury Arts, 255 Schenck Ave. The 2026 Hispanic Heritage Month exhibition, "Our Radiant Cultures," opens tonight, Saturday, October 3, with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Westbury Arts lists its regular gallery hours as Thursday noon to 4 p.m., Friday 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. No closing date for the new show has been published, and the exhibition page still describes the previous show, so confirm hours before a weekday visit. Tonight's reception ends at 8:30 p.m. That works with a late table at Post 270, which serves until midnight on Saturdays.

Westbury Historical Society, Sunday, October 4 at 1 p.m. Paul Martin presents "Faces from Mitchel Field," a history of the airfield told through the aviators who served there. The Hispanic Heritage Celebration at the Village Piazza set the same Sunday, 2 to 6 p.m., as the rain date for its September 27 event. Anupam Kher & Swaroop Sampat take the stage at The Space at 8 p.m. that night.

Hicks Nurseries Fall Festival. This is the one item on the village's fall list that runs for weeks instead of a single day, and the newsletter gives no address for it. It runs from September 12 through November 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and includes the animated story "Otto's New Neighbor," a hay maze, a food truck, a giant pumpkin contest and photos with Otto the Ghost.

Two November dates finish the season. The Westbury Arts Fall Gala, "A Night of Artful Giving," is Tuesday, November 10, from 6 to 10 p.m. at Jericho Terrace, 249 Jericho Turnpike in Mineola. On Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, James F. Walsh VFW Post 945 at 403 Maple Avenue opens the Westbury Military Historical Collection from noon to 4 p.m. to show artifacts donated by local veterans. After Halloween, that's the one visit tied to the Mitchel Field story from the October 4 talk.

If you're thinking about a move to a place where a Saturday parade, a show and dinner are all a short walk apart, I'd be glad to talk through what that looks like across Westbury and nearby communities. Reach out to Michelle Norris whenever you're ready. Let's Connect.