November 9, 2009
Museums, zoos, ice rinks, clubs open Thanksgiving Day
Update: See what’s open Christmas Day 2009 in NYC.
In case you find yourself in New York City on Nov. 26, 2009 looking for something to do besides share a bird with your beloved family members, here are some places that will be open on Thanksgiving Day in NYC:
The Macy’s 83nd Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 9 a.m. at 77th Street and Central Park West. The new route this year starts out the same, traveling south down Central Park West to Columbus Circle. But this year it will skip Broadway,and instead turn onto Central Park South and then south on 7th Avenue. Once it reaches, 42nd Street, the parade will head east until it reaches Bryant Park at 6th Avenue. The parade will continue south on 6th (Avenue of the Americas) until it reaches 34th Street, where it will turn towards Macy’s at Herald Square.
Restaurants open Thanksgiving Day
Radio City Christmas Spectacular - performances at 2, 5 and 8 p.m.
Cirque du Soleil’s “Wintuk” at Madison Square Garden - performances at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Broadway Thanksgiving Week schedule includes Thanksgiving Day performances of “Hamlet” at 7:30 p.m. as well as “Chicago,” “Oleanna,” “Phantom of the Opera” “West Side Story” and “White Christmas” at 8 p.m.
Big Apple Circus - 2 p.m. performance
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - 9 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. (Although tickets to the statue’s crown are sold out through 2009, you can still reserve free pedestal/museum access with your ferry tickets.)
Empire State Building open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. (Last elevator goes up at 1:15 a.m.)
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock open from 8 a.m. to midnight (Last elevator goes up at 11 p.m.)
Socrates Sculpture Park - 10 a.m. to sunset
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” and “DaVinci’s Workshop” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Madame Tussauds wax museum - opens 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium - 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. (last ticket sold at midnight)
Bodies - tickets sold from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Jewish Children’s Museum - 10 a.m. to 5 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.
Central Park carousel - 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wollman Rink, Prospect Park ice skating opens for the season (weather permitting) Update: Opening hours have been announced: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Pond free ice rink at Bryant Park - 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The Rink at Rockefeller Center - open from 9 a.m. to midnight; first session is 9 a.m. to noon, the least busy time of the day. After noon, expect a 1- to 2-hour wait to skate. Details: (212) 332-7654.
Wollman Rink in Central Park - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Prospect Park Turkey Trot 5M from 9 a.m.
Mark Murphy at the Iridium Jazz Club at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
New York Voices at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Dizzy’s Jazz Club show at 7:30 p.m.
Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields at BB Kings Blues Club at 7 p.m.
Caroline’s Thanksgiving Day Show - 8 p.m.
BAMcinematek screening of Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
IFC screenings include “Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” at 11 a.m., “Brazil” at midnight
Thanksgiving Dinner Cruise on the Manhattan Yacht at 2 p.m.
Circle Line 42 cruises
Spirit Cruises Thanksgiving Day lunch cruise boards at 1:30 p.m. at Chelsea Piers
Bateaux New York Thanksgiving Dinner cruise boards at 6:15 p.m. at Chelsea Piers
In addition a number of the city’s main attractions are always open rain or shine, night or day, including the Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry, and Times Square.
Updates: Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers open for indoor ice skating - noon to 4 p.m.
Holiday Shops at Bryant Park - 10 a.m. noon to 10 p.m.
Film Forum screens “The Sun” “M. Hulot’s Holiday” and “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet”
“Coco Before Chanel” screens at the Paris Theatre
Sunshine Cinema screenings include “The Road” “Broken Embraces” “Red Cliff” “A Serious Man” and a midnight screening of “The Big Lebowski”
230 Fifth rooftop lounge - 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Free performance by 77-piece Majestic Marching Knights from Ballou Senior High School at the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd Streets) - doors at 7 p.m.; performance at 8:30 p.m.
Girls Night Out at Webster Hall
Some of the restaurants and The Shops at Columbs Circle are open varying hours.
The Mommy Poppins blog suggests several kid-friendly activities, including story time at FAO Schwarz at 11a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.
Quad Cinema screens “New York, I Love You,” “Four Seasons Lodge,” “The Hurt Locker,” “The Informant” and “Irene in Time.”
“Disney’s A Christmas Carol: The IMAX 3D Experience” screens at Lincoln Square IMAX
New York Botanical Garden - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
B&H Photo Video - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Brooklyn Kitchen - 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Fairway Markets - 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
November 9, 2009 10:56 PM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Foodology, Kids, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Romance, Sightsology, Sports, Tours, Upper East Side, Upper West Side
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