Dylan's Candy Bar Hudson Yards: A Halloween Candy Shop Stop

Dylan's Candy Bar is a Halloween candy shop built for people who judge a treat by how it looks on the table. The New York store now sits on the fourth floor of The Shops at Hudson Yards, and in October its front displays fill with gummy bats, jelly skulls and a clear skull packed with sweets, all bagged and ribboned so they can go straight from the counter to a party.

Dylan Lauren, daughter of the designer Ralph Lauren, opened the first Dylan's Candy Bar on the Upper East Side in 2001, at Third Avenue and East 60th Street. That flagship spread over roughly 12,000 square feet and became a stop for school groups and tourists for two decades. It closed in 2021 after the company ran into financial trouble, and the space has since gone to a window-blinds retailer, so older guides that send you to Third Avenue are out of date.

The brand's official store locator now lists a single Manhattan shop, inside The Shops at Hudson Yards. It is a much smaller room than the old flagship, but the design language survived the move: oversized fiberglass candy canes, rock candy, sparkly gumdrops and hundreds of rainbow spiral lollipops, as The Infatuation describes the space. The chain has kept growing elsewhere, with airport stores and a 2026 opening at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

The October range is mostly pre-packed, which is the main difference from a scoop-it-yourself candy store. On the Dylan's website, single treat bags of Sugar-Coated Peach & Blackcurrant Gummy Bats, Fruity Gummy Bones, Berry Jelly Skulls, Blue Raspberry Jelly Brains and Sour Orange Jelly Pumpkins are $10 each. Peanut buttery milk chocolatey eyeballs come in a $12 bag, and the smaller Fright Bites treat bag is $9.

The centerpiece is the Skull of Sweets, a clear skull-shaped container filled with candy, listed at $26.25. Graveyard Grub costs $15, and the Swedish Bites Gummy Kebob, a skewer of Swedish-style gummies, is $7.50. For a host gift, the Boo-tiful Stash is $40, and the Feeling Fang-cy Bat Tray sells on its own for $14 or as a $50 bundle with treat bags.

Dylan's has always sold the packaging as much as the sweets, and its Halloween merchandise leans on breakfast-cereal monsters. Retro T-shirts featuring Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry are $25 each on the website, and the Spooky Sweet Tote Bag is $10, sturdy enough to carry the rest of the haul through the mall.

The store also stocks the non-seasonal items that made the brand: bubble-gum cigarettes, popcorn in flavors like funnel cake crunch, ice cream, and crunchy strawberry gummy bears coated in rainbow sprinkles, which The Infatuation singles out as the gummy to try. Over 100 bulk candy tubs line one wall for anyone who would rather build a custom mix than buy a sealed bag.

The pricing makes it easy to plan a party in round numbers. Five of the $10 gummy treat bags, one each of bats, bones, skulls, brains and pumpkins, come to $50, the same price as the Feeling Fang-cy bundle that pairs a bat tray with treat bags. The bundle is the tidier choice for a host table, while the loose bags split more evenly between children at the end of the night.

For a centerpiece, set the $26.25 Skull of Sweets in the middle of the table and surround it with the $9 Fright Bites bags as take-home favors. Adults who grew up on monster cereals tend to linger over the $25 Count Chocula and Boo Berry shirts, so a single shirt can double as a costume-party prize without adding more sugar to the evening.

Because the room is compact, Halloween week can feel tight when strollers and school groups arrive together. A weekday visit soon after the 10am opening gives you the most room to browse. Pick up the pre-packed Halloween bags first, since popular shapes like the gummy bats sell through, then browse the bulk tubs and the lollipop wall once you know what you still need.

Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday, so the Friday evening before is likely to be the busiest window of the season. If you are filling several party bags, buy identical treat bags rather than mixing bulk candy at the tubs, which keeps the checkout fast and the portions even. Dylan's also takes delivery orders through Uber Eats, which is handy for a last-minute top-up on the day.

The 34th Street–Hudson Yards station on the 7 line opens directly onto the plaza, so the store is an easy stop between other plans. Outside, the Vessel's copper-colored staircase anchors the public square, and the northern end of the High Line starts just to the south. Walking the elevated park toward Chelsea is the natural way to burn off a first bag of gummy skulls.

For a bigger outing, The Shed, the arts center at 545 West 30th Street, programs exhibitions and performances a short walk from the mall. The Javits Center at 429 11th Avenue, the city's big convention hall, is a short walk north on 11th Avenue. Edge, the outdoor observation deck at 30 Hudson Yards, is the pick if the group wants a skyline view before heading home.

Dylan's Candy Bar is at 20 Hudson Yards, on the fourth floor of The Shops at Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, and the store phone is (646) 661-6094. The official store locator lists hours of 10am to 9pm Monday through Saturday and 11am to 7pm on Sunday. The nearest subway is the 7 train to 34th Street–Hudson Yards, and the mall's entrances face 10th Avenue and the public square.

Prices quoted in this guide come from the Halloween collection on the Dylan's Candy Bar website. The East Hampton shop is closed for the season, so in the New York area the Hudson Yards store is the place to see the full candy-store experience in person. Bring a tote for anything fragile, like the Skull of Sweets container, because the walk back to the subway runs through a busy plaza.