December 23, 2009

NYC museums, restaurants, zoos open New Year's Day

Although Jan. 1 is a holiday, many museums, restaurants, ice rinks, zoos clubs and other venues remain open on New Year’s Day in New York City. Here’s the list:

Special New Year’s Day events
Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day swim - 1 p.m.

Salute to Vienna World’s Greatest New Year’s Concert! - 2:30 p.m at Lincoln Center

The Poetry Project presents the The 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading at St. Mark’s on the Bowery – from 2 p.m.

Free 16th Annual Bowery Poetry Club marathon poetry reading - noon

ESPN Zone’s York’s 3rd Annual Ultimate Couch Potato Competition - 11 a.m.

Museums
Museum of Modern Art - 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Guggenheim Museum - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

American Museum of Natural History - 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

New-York Historical Society - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. (Tickets to the statue’s crown are sold out, you can still reserve free pedestal/museum access with your ferry tickets.) - ferries depart Battery Park hourly from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Museum of Jewish Heritage - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

New York Hall of Science - 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Museum of the Moving Image - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Come Calling: New Year’s Day Open House at the Merchant’s House Museum - 3 to 6 p.m.

Handiworks crafts at Lefferts Historic House - 1 to 3 p.m.

Socrates Sculpture Park - 10 a.m. to sunset

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Museum of Sex - 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” and “DaVinci’s Workshop” from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Broadway, Concerts and Other Shows
Most Broadway shows are doing a regular 8 p.m. performance

TKTS Times Square - 3 to 8 p.m.

TKTS Brooklyn - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Off-Broadway offerings include “Brief Encounter” at St. Ann’s Warehouse at 8 p.m.; “The Toxic Avenger” at 8 p.m.; “The Understudy” at 7:30 p.m.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular - 2 and 5 p.m.

Renée Fleming and Susan Graham in “Der Rosenkavalier” at the Met Opera at 7:30 p.m.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at NY City Center - 8 p.m.

Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance at NY City Center - 7:30 p.m.

Big Apple Circus - 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Joseph Arthur and Charlie Mars at City Winery - 10 p.m.

Mike Stern Band featuring Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers and Randy Brecker at Iridium Jazz Club - 8:30 and 10 p.m.

Chris Botti plays the Blue Note - 8 and 10:30 p.m.

The Birdland Big Band with Tommy Igoe at Birdland - 5 p.m.

Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderly Legacy Band at Birdland - 8:30 and 11 p.m.

Billy Joel tribute band “Big Shot” plays BB Kings - 8 p.m.

The Bad Plus play the Village Vanguard - 9 and 11 p.m.

Bobby Lee at Caroline’s - 8 and 10:30 p.m.

Funkbowl with the Funktional All-Stars at Brooklyn Bowl - 7 p.m.

Ice Skating Rinks
Wollman Rink in Central Park - 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Trump Lasker Skating Rink on north end of Central Park - 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The Rink at Rockefeller Center - 9 a.m. to midnight with individual sessions at: 9 a.m. to noon; 12:30 to 2 p.m.; 2:30 to 4 p.m.; 4:30 to 6 p.m.; 6:30 to 8 p.m; 8:30 to 10 p.m.; and 10:30 p.m. to midnight.

The Pond at Bryant Park - 8 a.m. to midnight

Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers open for indoor ice skating - noon to 6:50 p.m.

The new Battery Park City on Ice rink - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Aviator Sports ice rink at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn - 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink in Brooklyn - 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

City Ice Pavilion in Long Island City - noon to 5:15 p.m.; and 7 to 9:50 p.m.

Riverbank State Park ice skating - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Abe Stark Rink at Coney Island - 1 to 4 p.m.

Zoos, Parks and Gardens
New York Botanical Garden with the Holiday Train Show, The Little Engine That Could™ Puppet Show, and other events - 10 a.m. to 7 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.

High Line - 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Bus, Boat and Walking Tours
Big Onion walking tour: Historic Times Square - 1 p.m.

Municipal Art Society walking tour: Flushing’s Koreatown on New Year’s Day - 1 p.m.

Rockefeller Center - 11 a.m., noon, 1, 3, 4 and 5 p.m.

Birding Bob’s annual New Year’s Day walk in Central Park. $5. Meet at the Boathouse. - 9 a.m.

Lincoln Center tour - 12:30, 2:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Circle Line Sightseeing - cruises at 12:30 and 4 p.m.

Around Manhatttan Brunch Cruise on the Manhattan Yacht - 10:45 a.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.

Sopranos Sites - 10 a.m.

Gossip Girl Sites - noon

(Use the online code for a 20 percent discount on any of the TV tours.)

Films
“Avatar: An IMAX Experience” screens at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” “Old Partner,” “The Apartment” and “The White Ribbon” screen at Film Forum

“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” “The Muppet Movie,” “Broken Embraces” and “The Road” screen at Sunshine Cinema

IFC Center screens “A Film With Me in It,” “Antichrist,” “A Town Called Panic,” “My Son. My Son, What Have Ye Done?,” “Police, Adjective,” “Sita Sings the Blues,” “The Chaser” - and “Taxi Driver” at midnight and “Eraserhead” at 12:10 a.m.

Paris Theater screens “A Single Man”

“Crazy Heart” “Invictus” and “A Single Man” screen at the Angelika

Film Society of Lincoln Center screens “My Dinner with Andre” and “The Lovers”

Other NYC theater listings (Fandango)

Dining and Shops
Restaurants open New Year’s Day (Open Table)

Groove Buffet R&B/Motown/Soul Brunch-all-you-can-eat at BB Kings - 1:30 p.m.

New Year’s Day Brunch Buffet at The Carlyle - noon and 2:30 p.m. seatings

Hangover brunch at City Winery - 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Celsius at The Pond at Bryant Park - noon to midnight

230 Fifth rooftop lounge - 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Russ & Daughters - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Fairway - 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Carnegie Deli - 6:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.

Zabar’s - 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Some of the restaurants and The Shops at Columbus Circle - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Book Culture sale - 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

McNally Jackson bookshop - 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

FAO Schwarz - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Transit
Staten Island Ferry - operates on holiday schedule: Every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

MTA subways and buses - Sunday schedule

Metro North - weekend/holiday schedule

Long Island Rail Road extra service

Hampton Jitney - operates on holiday schedule

Skyscraper Observation Decks
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 midnight; last elevator up at 11:10 p.m.

More
Madame Tussauds wax museum - opens 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

Bodies exhibition at the Seaport - 11:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Untamed and Trashes parties at Webster Hall - 10 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral ’s Solemnity of Mary masses at 8 a.m., noon and 5:30 p.m.

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, Central Park and Times Square.

Official what’s closed list (NY Times)

Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.

Earlier: Big list of places open on Christmas in NYC for 2009
Museums, zoos, ice rinks, clubs open Thanksgiving Day

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