November 29, 2007

What's open New Year's Day in NYC

(Updated)

If you can manage to find the floor on the first day of 2008, there are a number of ice rinks, music clubs and museums open on New Year's Day in New York City. That's in addition to the always-open, always-free options such as Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Staten Island Ferry.

Here's the list of some of the offerings:

Guggenheim - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Museum of Modern Art - 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History - 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
New York Botanical Garden - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Museum of Sex - 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New York Hall of Science - 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock - 8 a.m. to midnight
Empire State Building - 8 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Liberty & Ellis islands (with a new ferry company 1/1/08) - from 9 a.m.
Jewish Children’s Museum - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Madame Tussauds wax museum - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium - 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim - 1 p.m.
Central Park carousel - 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weather permitting
Wollman Rink in Central Park – 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Rink at Rockefeller Center - 9 a.m. to midnight
The Pond at Bryant Park – 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Prospect Park's Wollman Rink in Brooklyn - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
"Elaine Stritch At Liberty … At The Carlyle" - 8 p.m.
Met Opera's "Hansel and Gretel" - 1 p.m.
Met Opera's "Un Ballo in Maschera" by Verdi - 8 p.m.
Broadway's special holiday schedule, includes evening performances of "Wicked," "A Bronx Tale," "The Farnsworth Invention," "Spring Awakening," and "August: Osage County."
The Strauss Symphony of America's A Salute to Vienna at Avery Fisher Hall - 2:30 p.m.
Big Apple Circus - 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Big Onion’s Historic Times Square walking tour - 1 p.m.
Champagne brunch cruise on the '20s-style yacht Manhattan - noon
Groove Buffet all-you-can-eat brunch buffet at B.B. King's - 1 p.m.
Billy Joel tribute band Big Shot at B.B. King's - 8 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club marathon reading- 2 p.m. to midnight
The Poetry Project presents the The 34th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading at St. Mark’s on the Bowery – from 2 p.m.
“Note By Note” the making of a Steinway concert grand #L1037, screens at Symphony Space- 4 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Flushing's Chinatown on New Year's Day - 1 p.m.
Birding Bob’s annual New Year's Day walk in Central Park. Meet at the Boathouse at 9 a.m. ($5)
Ghosts of the City walking tour at 1:30 p.m.
Ratatouille screens at the Museum of the Moving Image – 1:30 p.m.
New York National Boat Show at the Javits – from noon to 8 p.m.
Restaurants open New Year's Day

Update: Since this was first published, the The Merchant's House Museum has decided to close on New Year's Day. It's been deleted from the list above.

Earlier: What's open Christmas Day in New York

November 29, 2007 07:17 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Romance, Sightsology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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