November 28, 2009
Big list of places open on Christmas in NYC for 2009
Many museums, restaurants, clubs, ice rinks, zoos and other places are open on Christmas Day in New York City in 2009. Here’s the list, which will update as more locations confirm their holiday hours:
Shows
Radio City Spectacular - shows at 1, 4 and 7 p.m.
Broadway’s Christmas Day shows includes 8 p.m. performances of “The 39 Steps,” “Billy Elliot,” “Burn the Floor,” Chicago,” “Fela!,” “Finian’s Rainbow,” “In the Heights,” “In the Next Room,” “Jersey Boys,” “A Little Night Music,” “Mamma Mia!,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Race,” “Rock of Ages,” “Shrek,” “South Pacific,” “Superior Donuts” and “West Side Story.”
TKTS Times Square discounted Broadway ticket booth - 3 to 8 p.m.
Off-Broadway offerings include “Our Town” at 7:30 p.m.; “Avenue Q” at 8 p.m; and the “Gazillion Bubble Show” at 7 p.m.
Big Apple Circus - performances at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Klez for Kids at the Eldridge Street Project – 11 a.m.
Bending Toward The Light: A Jazz Nativity at Birdland - 6 p.m.
Freddy Cole at Birdland - 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Chris Botti plays the Blue Note - 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Melissa Nadel plays the Blue Note - 12:30 a.m. (early Dec.26)
4 Generations of Miles- Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune, Buster Williams, Jimmy Cobb at Iridium Jazz Club - 8:30 p.m.
Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields plays BB Kings Blues Club - 8 p.m.
Michael Feinstein & David Hyde Pierce Holiday Show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency - 8 p.m.
More Than Enough dance party at Le Poisson Rouge - 10 p.m.
230 Fifth rooftop lounge - 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Museums
Jewish Museum with the Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention exhibition and Family Celebration events - 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” and “DaVinci’s Workshop” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Socrates Sculpture Park - 10 a.m. to sunset
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
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.
New York Aquarium - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 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
The Pond at Bryant Park - 8 a.m. to midnight
Wollman Rink in Central Park - 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Trump Lasker Skating Rink on north end of Central Park - 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers open for indoor ice skating with reduced admission and free skate rental - noon to 6:50 p.m.
The new Battery Park City on Ice rink - noon to 10 p.m.
Aviator Sports ice rink at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn - 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
City Ice Pavilion in Long Island City - noon to 6:50 p.m.
Walking tours
Big Onion’s 19th Annual Christmas Day Jewish East Side Tour walking tours - 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Rockefeller Center: Art Deco Masterwork - 10 a.m.
Religious services and concerts
St. Patrick’s Cathedral Christmas Day mass - celebrated at 7, 8, 9, 10:15 a.m., noon, 1 and 5:30 p.m.
Choral Eucharist at Trinity Wall Street at 11:15 a.m.
Christmas Day Eucharist at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 10:30 a.m.
Festival Choral Eucharist at St. Bartholonew’s Church on Park Avenue - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Places up high
Empire State Building - 8 a.m. to 2 a.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.
Movies
Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “Antichrist,” “Bad Santa,” Christmas on Mars,” “Donny Darko,” El topo” “My Son. My Son, What Have Ye Done?,” “Police, Adjective,” “Ricky,” “Sita Sings the Blues” and “The Great Dictator” screen at the IFC Center
Chinese & a Movie: Mel Brooks Double Feature: “Blazing Saddles” and ” Spaceballs” at 2 p.m. at 92YTribeca
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” screens at Sunshine Cinema
Film Forum screens “The Third Man, “A Town Called Panic,” and a double feature of “Christmas in July” and “Miracle on 34th Street”
BAM screens “Nine” and “the Young Victoria”
“Crazy Heart” “Invictus” and “A Single Man” screen at the Angelika
Paris Theater screens “A Single Man”
“Avatar: An IMAX Experience” screens at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13
Other NYC theater listings (Fandango)
Restaurants and food shops
Carnegie Deli - 6:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.
Russ & Daughters - 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Zabar’s - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Restaurants open Christmas Day - (Open Table)
Christmas Brunch Buffet at The Carlyle with live piano from Chris Gillespie - from 12:30 p.m.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day restaurants (Zagat)
Christmas Day restaurants (Gothamist)
Hotel restaurants open on Christmas (Hotel Chatter)
Sports
NY Knicks vs Miami Heat at Madison Square Garden - noon
List of holiday closures (New York Times)
Transit
Long Island Rail Road extra Christmas Holiday weekend service and off-peak fares
Metro North special holiday timetable
Staten Island Ferry operates on a holiday schedule - every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Hampton Jitney - operates on holiday schedule
Related: NYC museums, restaurants, zoos open New Year’s Day Jan. 1, 2010
Earlier: Museums, zoos, ice rinks, clubs open Thanksgiving Day
Note: This list will be updated frequently with additions and changes. “Oleanna” was deleted from the Broadway offerings as it shuttered prematurely.
Picture credit: Bryant Park ice rink. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
November 28, 2009 7:16 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours
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