December 6, 2008
What's open Christmas Day in New York City 2008
Update: See what’s open on Christmas in NYC in 2011. The list below was for an earlier year.
A handful of museums, ice rinks, zoos and interesting places are open on Christmas Day in New York City.
Shows
Radio City Spectacular - shows at 1, 4 and 7 p.m.
Broadway’s special holiday schedule includes performances of “Hairspray” and “Slava’s Snowshow” at 7 p.m. and “Billy Elliot,” Chicago,” “39 Steps,” “Grease,” “Gypsy,” “Jersey Boys,” “Shrek,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “South Pacific” “Spamalot” “Spring Awakening” and “Young Frankenstein” at 8 p.m.
TKTS Times Square - sells discounted theater tickets from 3 to 6 p.m. (Brooklyn and South Street Seaport locations closed all day.)
Big Apple Circus - performances at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Jazz Nativity at Birdland Jazz at 5 and 8 p.m.
Christmas with Hilary Kole at Birdland Jazz at 11 p.m.
Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields plays BB Kings Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Klez for Kids at the Eldridge Street Project – noon and 2:30 p.m.
Chris Botti plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Museums
 Jewish Museum - open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; with Family Celebration from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Jewish Children’s Museum - 10 a.m. to 4 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.; last ticket sold at midnight
Places up high
Empire State Building - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; last elevators go up at 1:15 a.m.
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock - 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; last elevator up at 8:10 p.m.
Zoos & Carousels
Central Park carousel - opens 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Central Park Zoo - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Prospect Park Zoo - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Queens Zoo - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Bronx Zoo - 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
New York Aquarium - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Walking tours
Big Onion’s 18th Annual Christmas Day Jewish East Side Tour walking tours at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Rockefeller Center: Art Deco Masterwork at 10 a.m.
Ghosts of NY walking tour: Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends of the East Village at 1: 30 p.m.
Skating rinks
Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink in Brooklyn - 10 a.m. 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Rink at Rockefeller Center - 9 a.m. to midnight
Wollman Rink in Central Park - 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Pond at Bryant Park - 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Religious services and concerts
St. Patrick’s Cathedral Christmas Day mass - celebrated at 7, 8, 9, 10:15 a.m., noon and 1 p.m.
Christmas Day Holy Eucharist at Trinity Wall Street at 11:15 a.m.
A Baroque Christmas: Ballads, Carols, Noels & Villancicos, Early Music New York Concerts at St. John the Divine at 3 and 8 p.m.
Movies
“Theater of War,” “Christmas in July” and “Remember the Night” screen at at Film Forum
Steven Soderbergh’s”CHE: Special Roadshow Edition” screens at IFC Center at 2 and 7:15 p.m.
The Reader with Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, and David Kross screens at the Paris Theater at 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Chinese & a Movie: Monty Python Double Feature at 2 p.m. at 92YTribeca
Sunshine Cinema screens “Man on Wire,” “The Wrestler” and
“Synecdoche, New York ” throughout the day
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The IMAX Experience at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 at 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7 and 9:50 p.m.
“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Doubt,” “Let the Right One In,” “I’ve Loved You So Long,” and “Vicky Christina Barcelona” screen at Angelika throughout the day
BAM screens “The Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Milk”
Other NYC theater listings (Fandango)
Restaurants
Rainbow Room meal reservations from noon to 7 p.m. ($200 for adults and $100 for children)
Restaurants open Christmas Day - (Open Table)
Restaurants open Christmas Day (Food Section)
Transit
Long Island Rail Road extra Christmas Holiday weekend service
Metro North special holiday timetable
Closed for Christmas
Official holiday closings list (NY Times)
Related: What’s open New Year’s Day in New York City 2009
Picture credit: Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Amy Langfield/NewYorkology
Image source: Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater from the Jewish Museum.
December 6, 2008 6:57 PM in Sightsology
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