November 29, 2007

What's open New Year's Day in NYC

(Updated)

(Update: The list below was for 2008. See the 2009 list of what's open New Year's Day.)

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 7:17 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Romance, Sightsology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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