December 14, 2008
What's open New Year's Day in New York City 2009
The list below is for a prior year. See what places will be open New Year’s Day 2012 in New York City.
 If you’re hoping to hit the ground running in 2009, there are a number of places open the first day of the year in addition to the always-free options such as Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Staten Island Ferry.
Many museums, music clubs and ice rinks are open on New Year’s Day in New York City. Here’s the list, now upated:
Museums
Guggenheim - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Museum of Modern Art - 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History - 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
New-York Historical Society - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Merchant’s House Museum - noon to 5 p.m.
Museum of Sex - 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
New York Hall of Science - 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - ferries depart Battery Park at 8, 9, 10 and 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Jewish Children’s Museum - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lefferts Historic House - 1 to 3 p.m.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Coney Island Museum - opens after the 1 p.m. Polar Bear swim
Special New Year’s Day events
Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day swim; meet at noon, swim at 1 p.m.
Free Bowery Poetry Club marathon poetry reading - 2 p.m. to midnight
The Poetry Project presents the The 35th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading at St. Mark’s on the Bowery – from 2 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral ’s Solemnity of Mary (Holy Day of obligation) masses at 8 a.m. and noon
Theater
Broadway’s New Year’s Day schedule, includes “Pal Joey” at 7 p.m. and “13,” “Billy Elliott,” “Dividing the Estate,” “Grease” “Gypsy,” “Mamma Mia,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Shrek” “South Pacific” “Spamalot,” “Spring Awakening” and “Wicked” at 8 p.m.
Off-Broadway offerings include Altar Boyz at 8 p.m.; Blue Man Group at 2, 5 and 8 p.m.; Gazillion Bubble Show at 7 p.m.; and Saturn Returns at 8 p.m. See more at the Broadway2Day map.
Musical Puppet Show: Peter Pan & Adventures in Never Land at the The Swedish Cottage in Central Park - 12:30 p.m.
TKTS Times Square - sells discounted theater tickets from 3 to 6 p.m.; Brooklyn and South Street Seaport locations closed all day.
Walking tours
Big Onion’s Historic Times Square walking tour at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Flushing’s Chinatown on New Year’s Day at 1 p.m.
Ghosts of the City walking tour at 1:30 p.m.
NYC Audubon’s Beach Walk at 11 a.m. at Fort Tilden in Breezy Point
Birding Bob’s annual New Year’s Day walk in Central Park. Meet at the Boathouse at 10 a.m.
Rockefeller Center - 11 a.m., noon, 1, 3 , 4 and 5 p.m.
New York TV and Movie Sites - 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Sex and the City Hotspots - 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Skating rinks
Wollman Rink in Central Park – 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Polar Rink at the American Museum of Natural History - open from noon to 8 p.m.
The Rink at Rockefeller Center open from 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. 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Music
Salute to Vienna World’s Greatest New Year’s Concert! at 2:30 p.m at Lincoln Center
Met Opera’s The Magic Flute - 7 p.m.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at NY City Center - 8 p.m.
Chris Botti plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Arturo O’Farrill’s Quintet at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Dancing for Jerry: Memories of Jerome Robbins at Symphony Space - at 7:30 p.m.
“Big Shot” a Billy Joel tribute show at BB Kings - at 8 p.m.
The Bad Plus - play the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
MIKE STERN BAND featuring Kenny Garrett, Dennis Chambers & Tom Kennedy play Iridium - 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Holiday House Party with Dan Zanes & Friends at noon and 5 p.m. at the New Victory Theater
Gardens, zoos and carousels
New York Botanical Garden - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; with the Holiday Train Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bronx Zoo - 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Central Park Zoo - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Central Park carousel - 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., if it’s not too cold
Prospect Park Zoo - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Queens Zoo - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
New York Aquarium - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Movies
Film Society of Lincoln Center - screens “Mary Poppins” at 5:15 p.m. and “Se7en” at 2:40 and 8 p.m.
“Theater of War,” “Christmas in July” and “Remember the Night” screen at at Film Forum
Angelika screenings include “I’ve Loved You So Long,” “Doubt,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” ‘Let the Right One In,” and “Vicky Christina Barcelona”
IFC Center screenings include “Che,” “A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noel),” “El Topo,” “You Can’t Take it With You,” “The Flight of the Red Balloon (Le Voyage du ballon rouge),” “My Winnipeg,” and “The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le mulet)”
The Paris screens “The Reader” at 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Sunshine Cinema screens “Man on Wire,” “The Wrestler,” “Waltz With Bashir” and “Synecdoche, New York”
Brooklyn Academy of Music screens “Milk,” “The Reader” and “Slumdog Millionaire?
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The IMAX Experience
at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 at 10 a.m., 1, 4:15, 7:10 and 10 p.m.
Other Jan. 1 NYC theater listings (Fandango)
Places up high
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock - 10 a.m. to midnight; last ticket sold at 11:10 p.m.
Empire State Building - 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.; last elevators go up at 1:15 a.m.
Other attractions
Big Apple Circus - 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Madame Tussauds wax museum - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; last ticket sold at 8 p.m.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium - 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.; last ticket sold at midnight
Around Manhattan brunch cruise on the ’20s-style yacht Manhattan - 11 a.m.
Circle Line Sightseeing - cruises at 12:30 and 4 p.m.
Liberty Helicopters - 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Zip helicopter tours - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
HeliNY - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bodies - 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Restaurants
Groove Buffet R&B/Motown/Soul Brunch-all-you-can-eat at BB Kings - 1:30 p.m.
Restaurants open New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day brunch list (New York magazine)
Transportation
Staten Island Ferry - operates on holiday schedule: Every 30 minutes between 7:00 am and 11:00 pm from St. George and between 7:30 am and 11:30 pm from Whitehall. Hourly service will then resume.
Extra LIRR service
MTA advisories in effect for subways and buses on January 1
Other
New Year’s Day official closures (NY Times)
Earlier: What’s open Christmas Day in New York City 2008
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