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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Celebrating Thanksgiving Day, Macy's colourful parade is one of New York's best. It features clowns, floats, marching bands and plenty of celebrities. Gigantic helium balloons shaped like…
Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting
The spectacular annual Rockefeller Center Tree lighting ceremony in Manhattan signals the start of the Christmas season in New York City. The Christmas tree glitters with more than 25,000…
Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival
Established in 2004, the annual Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, presented by the Theater for the New City, is a two-week festival celebrating New York's most innovative and dynamic puppeteers.
Winter Solstice Concerts at St John the Divine
In celebration of the winter solstice - the shortest day and longest night of the year - the Cathedral of St John the Divine hosts special concerts. The concert is made up of fantastical…
Wild Holiday Party - Presents to the Animals
During Wild Holiday Party, held on three consecutive December weekends every year, visitors to Central Park's Wildlife Center can watch the resident polar bears tear open their Christmas presents.
Radio City Christmas Spectacular
A spectacular show at the dazzling 1930s art deco landmark Radio City Music Hall, this music and dance revue has been going strong since 1933, making it staple Christmas fodder along with The…
New Year's Eve Fireworks in New York City
In New York City, New Year's Eve is celebrated with vigour as the traditional midnight fireworks are let off in Central Park, South St Seaport and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
New Year Swimmers at Coney Island
Brace yourself for the start of the New Year by joining New York's eccentrics as they plunge into the freezing cold sea at Stillwell Ave and the Boardwalk on Coney Island. Or better still…
Three Kings Day Parade & Community Celebration
The Three Kings Day Parade is a colourful and festive Christmas affair, Latin American-style, that fills the streets of Spanish Harlem every year. A community celebration offering family…
The lighting of the spectacular Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree signals the start of the festive season in New York City. With more than 25,000 colourful twinkling lights, the tree is loved…
Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center
Few scenes are more heart-warming than the rink full of happy skaters cavorting in front of the floodlit towers of New York's Rockefeller Center. The rink has welcomed skaters every Christmas…
Three Kings Day Parade & Community Celebration
The Three Kings Day Parade is a colourful and festive Christmas affair, Latin American-style, that fills the streets of Spanish Harlem every year. A community celebration offering family…
The Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden is a fantasyland of lights, model trains and recreations of historic New York landmarks. Leaves, twigs and other botanicals are…
The New York Botanical Garden's Gingerbread Adventures teaches children about the ingredients that go into the holiday biscuits and lets them decorate their own gingerbread men. Don't forget…
The Big Apple Circus brings its latest production to Damrosch Park at the Lincoln Center. Circus-goers of all ages will enjoy this good, old-fashioned dose of family fun.
The Chinese New Year Spectacular at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall is presented by New Tang Dynasty TV, a multilingual, non-profit TV network based in New York.
Winter Restaurant Week in New York City
For two weeks every winter, thousands of New York City's best restaurants offer lunches and dinners at greatly discounted prices.
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
America's top annual dog show fills two days at Madison Square Garden in New York. Each year the show attracts 2500 dogs for 29 gruelling hours of judging. By Tuesday evening, only seven…
Various institutions around New York City organise a range of interactive activities for children at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum's annual Kids Week,introducing the joys and wonders of…
New York International Children's Film Festival
The annual New York International Children's Film Festival is a treat for all ages, though it is aimed at the three-to-18 age group. So grab a kid and get the lowdown on the latest in…
