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Celebrate the Holidays at PaleyLand!
The Paley Museum
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The Paley Center's must-see holiday extravaganza fills five floors of the Paley with holiday fun and winter wonderland magic. Enjoy free hot chocolate, watch past and present Holiday Family Specials on the big screen, discover the magic of a classic model railroad display, and so much more.
12:00 PM
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Winter Family Fair
The Morgan Library
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Celebrate the holiday season with The Morgan’s annual display of the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and enjoy crafts and activities themed to The Morgan's current exhibitions.
2:00 PM
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Santa Fun Cruise with Kids' Activities
Event Cruises NYC
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This Santa Fun Cruise with kids' activities, is available Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through Christmas Eve. Meet Santa and his elves, join in Christmas carol singing, drink cocoa, and eat sweet treats while listening to live holiday storytelling.
3:00 PM
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North Pole Express
TopView Sightseeing
Santa is bringing the North Pole to the heart of Manhattan. Take a tour of Midtown Manhattan’s storied holiday lights as you listen to thrilling Christmas tales told by one of Santa’s Elves. The journey ends with a visit from Santa himself and the kids get a sleigh bell as a good luck...
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Family Art Project: Peeking into Winter Retablos
Wave Hill
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Observe the blue and silver hues in Wave Hill’s landscapes as you create colorful retablo paintings that open and close. Learn about seasonal animals and their natural habitats. Then, embellish your winter scene with mysterious footprints under a snow-filled sky.
10:00 AM
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ElfCon 2023 Hot Cocoa Crawl
Union Square Park
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Have fun, drink hot cocoa, and raise money for charity. Oh, and dress like an elf, please! ElfCon welcomes all children and families (and adults too!) with holiday joy to roam NYC on a hot cocoa crawl while dressed as elves. The charity event has donated $5,000 combined to The Trevor Project and...
10:00 AM
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Nature Walks with Bradley Klein: Wildlife in Winter
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Naturalist Bradley Klein leads families on a winter nature walk. Don’t be intimidated by colder weather—there are plenty of clues hinting at the wildlife that sleeps through the season of longer nights. And quite a few creatures remain active if you know where to look for them.
11:00 AM
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Holiday Hub at City Point
City Point
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Mommy Poppins and Brooklyn Bridge Parents host three weekends of holiday happenings that include Santa portraits, menorah making, cookie decorating, holiday crafts, elf selfies, and more.
11:00 AM
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Hanukkah Festival: Bring in the Light
92nd Street Y
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92Y's annual celebration is bursting with crafts, entertainment, make-your-own holiday treats, a live Hanukkah Game Show, a special Hanukkah Israeli folk dance performance, opportunities to give back, and more.
11:00 AM
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Sunday Story Time: Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
New York Historical Society DiMenna Children's History Museum
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Happy Hanukkah, Little New-Yorkers! Stop by the New-York Historical Society for a reading of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, by Eric A. Kimmel, with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Then make your own Hanukkah dreidel.
11:30 AM
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The Rock and Roll Playhouse Presents the Music of Taylor Swift for Kids
Brooklyn Bowl
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Kids can rock out to the music of Taylor Swift at the Brooklyn Bowl's Rock and Roll Playhouse.
12:00 PM
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Hibernation Hike
Snug Harbor
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Hundreds of animal species spend their winters in New York City parks. Learn how animals such as birds, squirrels, chipmunks and others survive the cold and the snow in this educational wildlife viewing adventure.
1:00 PM
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Lyrics and Lyracists Jr: Celebrating Sondheim
92nd St Y
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This 45-minute performance is filled with kid-friendly showstoppers from favorite musicals, and the host and cast members share little-known secrets and inside stories from behind the productions.
1:30 PM
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Santa at the NY Irish Center
New York Irish Center
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The New York Irish Center opens its doors to kids for a special meet and greet with Santa. Tea, coffee, and snacks are on hand, and each child who walks through the door receives a free gift.
2:00 PM
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Menorah Lighting in Park Slope
Park Slope
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Chabad Park Slope lights a big outdoor menorah on the corner of 3rd Street and Fifth Avenue. Stop by for doughnut decorating, giant games, music, and more,
2:00 PM
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50th Annual Merry Tuba Christmas at Rockefeller Center
The Rink at Rockefeller Center
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Hundreds of tenor and bass tuba players congregate at The Rink at Rockefeller Center to play Christmas carols and other crowd favorites.
3:00 PM
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Chocolate Hanukkah
South Street Seaport
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Light the menorah and celebrate Hanukkah with crafts for kids and goodies for all.
3:00 PM
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Holiday Hootenanny & Singalong at Spoke the Hub
Spoke the Hub
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“Hymie the Elf” (a/k/a Matt Mitler of Dzieci Theatre) helps families usher you in the holidays. Come prepared to raise your voices and sing a slew of holiday favorites - and maybe some non-holiday favorites too? – as well as enjoying a short performance by NeuroMotif musicians and educators...
4:00 PM
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Menorah Lighting at Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards
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Visit the Public Square and Gardens in Hudson Yards for a menorah lighting, then snag eight days of special offers from participating shops.
4:30 PM
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Astra Lumina
Queens Botanical Garden
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Astra Lumina at Queens Botanical Garden is one-mile-long enchanted night walk through the garden that guides visitors on a journey to discover the wonder of visiting stars. Through the magic of projections, lighting, and music, astral energy transforms the garden into a celestial pathway...
5:30 PM
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Hanukkah Celebration 2023
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
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The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music partners with The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life for this year's annual Hanukkah party, featuring klezmer music, Hanukkah karaoke, latkes, and more.
7:00 PM
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Macy's Santaland
Macy's Herald Square
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Santa swoops back over to Macy's for visits with his littlest fans! Wander the rainbow road to his workshop, where you'll meet jolly old St. Nick. Share your wishlist before receiving a special gift and posing for a keepsake photo.
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The Largest Menorah Lighting: Brooklyn
Grand Army Plaza
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Chabad of Park Slope hosts the 32-foot "Largest Menorah" in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza. There's a kick off concert on Thursday, December 7, and each subsequent night of Hanukkah is celebrated with music, latkes, and gifts.
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The Steadfast Tin Soldier & Nutcracker Sweets
Puppetworks Inc.
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Puppetworks presents a double bill, featuring The Steadfast Tin Soldier, from Hans Christian Andersen, and Nutcracker Sweets with Tchaikovsky's music. Both are adapted for the marionette stage by Nicholas Coppola.
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Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
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Catch one of the largest and zaniest neighborhood Christmas lights displays in Brooklyn, if not in all of New York City, when block after block of homeowners mount over-the-top displays.
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Hanukkah at CMOM
Children's Museum of Manhattan
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Celebrate the start of Hanukkah by learning the origins of the dreidel game and its importance as it was used to protect freedom. Discover the songs and story books the game has inspired.
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Holiday Breakfast at Nordstrom
Nordstrom's
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Mornings are magical this time of year. Nordstrom's dials up the warm and fuzzy vibe with a delicious breakfast, a visit with Santa, photo-ops, music, and activities.
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Night Light - SOLD OUT
New 42nd Street Studios
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Set in a cityscape made of miniature furniture, this poetic piece of object theater delivers delightful discoveries for very young audiences.
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White Gold
Studio 42
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Savor Cambodia’s artistic heritage with a circus celebrating healing, and joy…and rice, known throughout Southeast Asia as White Gold. Hypnotic dance, mesmerizing music, and dramatic live painting mix with juggling, tumbling, teeterboard, and other circus arts dating back 12,000 years.
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Gimme Please
Clark Studio Theater
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Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre presents a highly visual work that follows the journey of two friends from initial meeting to lasting connection as they pretend, provoke, and persist in getting what they want and need from the world and each other.
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Balloon Museum
Balloon Museum
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Fourteen international artists have come together to create an extraordinary inflatable experience! Balloon Museum presents: Let’s Fly at Pier 36 in New York, an original concept featuring works from the most inflated to the most colorful.
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Harmonize for the Holidays
Children's Museum of Manhattan
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Celebrate family, community, unity, and joy this December as CMOM hosts some of the East Coast’s leading children’s singer-songwriters in this new holiday series.
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Ms T's Cranky Tales: Hares and Bears
Old Stone House
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Ms T, aka Theresa Linnihan, performer and puppeteer, tells a seasonal tale using a cranky (an illustrated scroll that adds whimsical images to Ms. T's lively narration). The occasional puppet is likely to jump into the action as well.
Various times
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PaleyLand Holiday Weekend: Meet Santa, Snoopy, and More!
The Paley Museum
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Step into the happy hullabaloo of PaleyLand and enter a Peanuts paradise! Capture a picture-perfect moment with Snoopy and scoop up a FREE Snoopy keepsake (while supplies last). Then cozy up for an exclusive screening of the heartwarming new Snoopy holiday special, Happiness Is Holiday Traditions...
Various times
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Breakfast with Santa
Applebee's
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Enjoy a family breakfast at Applebee's with a visit from and, photo opportunity with, Santa. Breakfast includes eggs, bacon, pancakes, breakfast potatoes and juice, coffee or tea.
08:00 AM
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Santa Brunch at American Girl
American Girl Store
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Share a holiday experience that includes a jolly “ho-ho-ho!” with Santa at American Girl New York. This festive brunch with Santa includes a photo-op (bring your own camera or smartphone), as well as a meal in the American Girl Cafe.
08:45 AM
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Breakfast at Bergdorf's with Santa
Bergdorf Goodman
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Bergdorf Goodman hosts a swanky morning meal with the man of the hour in the iconic seventh floor restaurant.
09:00 AM
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Painting Cartoon Portraits for Kids
Creatively Wild Art Studio
In this fun class, kids combine cartooning with painting and create portraits of their favorite cartoon characters or design their own, transforming them into fully scaled finished paintings. Children learn how to paint colorful superheroes or fantasy characters and set them in fantasy...
09:30 AM
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New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show
The New York Botanical Garden
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The New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show returns for its 32nd year! Model trains zip through a miniature wonderland of nearly 200 New York landmark replicas, each re-created from natural materials such as leaves, seeds, twigs, bark, acorns, and cinnamon sticks.
10:00 AM
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Holiday Train Show at Grand Central
Grand Central Gallery Annex
In-person
Returning for the first time since 2019, the New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery plays host to a city within a city with the display of a miniature electric railroad running over, through, and beneath some of New York’s most magnificent landmarks.
10:00 AM
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Lightscape
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
In-person
Explore the Brooklyn Botanic Garden after dark during the illuminated spectacular, Lightscape, which celebrates the beauty of nature in winter on an enchanting trail animated by dazzling light, color, and sound.
10:00 AM
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Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off
Museum of the City of New York
In-person
Two bakeries from each borough were selected to create a gingerbread display following the theme of Winter in New York and best representing their respective neighborhoods, communities, or boroughs. See the sweet creations on display at the Museum of the City of New York.
10:00 AM
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Sciskate
New York Hall of Science
No need to bundle up for this special indoor skating experience: the SciSkate rink is made of eco-friendly polymer, and the snow is beautifully projected.
10:00 AM
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Kids Skate Hour: Santa and Friends
Industry City Courtyard
In-person
Enjoy a Sunday morning skate with Santa and friends. Snap a picture with skating Santa, but watch out for his grouchy green friend, who just might pop up on the ice.
10:00 AM
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China Institute Hoppy Rabbit Playdate
China Institute - Downtown Location
In-person
The China Institute hosts a 1-hour open session where families can bring their children to a cozy indoor playground space to play, socialize, and have fun with age-appropriate toys and activities.
10:00 AM
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Rawther Fancy Teas with Santa
The Plaza Hotel
In-person
Eloise fans can enjoy a special holiday-themed Afternoon Tea menu at The Palm Court, with some delectable pink treats, of course. Santa spotting is on the menu, too.
10:30 AM
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Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection
New-York Historical Society
In-person
The Holiday Express returns to New-York Historical Society creating a magical winter wonderland full of toy trains, figurines, and miniatures from the renowned Jerni Collection. Exhibits illustrate the workings of the railroad, its services, and how it helps keep people and goods on the move.
11:00 AM
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Sunday Brunch with Santa
The Historic Old Bermuda Inn
In-person
Staten Island's Old Bermuda Inn hosts a buffet brunch with Santa on select Sundays in December.
11:00 AM
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Frost Fest at Luna Park
Luna Park Coney Island
In-person
Luna Park whips up winter fun with a skating rink, select rides and attractions, holiday lights and décor, photos with Santa, holiday shopping, and festive food options.
11:00 AM
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Mindful Manipulations
3AM Theatre
In-person
Take a journey through art, music & circus as Kyle Driggs and Ellie Steingraeber team up with husband and wife musical superstars, Musiquita! Mindful Manipulations is a captivating, hour-long interactive extravaganza featuring joyful singalongs in English and Spanish, engaging activities, and...
11:00 AM
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