December 29, 2011
Open New Year's Day 2012 in New York City
All is not quiet on New Year’s Day. Many of New York City’s museums, Broadway theaters, movie houses, ice rinks, zoos, restaurants and other venues are open on New Year’s Day.
Here’s the list of what’s confirmed open for Jan. 1, 2012:
Sports
 Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day swim begins at 1 p.m.
Kickoff for the NY Giants home game at MetLife Stadium vs. Dallas Cowboys has been rescheduled to 8:20 p.m.
The driving range at Chelsea Piers will be open from noon to 11 p.m.
Bowlmor Times Square will open at 1 p.m.
5 Borough Bicycle Club Rides include Polar Pancakes at 9:30 a.m. and New York Botanical Garden at 10 a.m.
Big Apple 2012 Handball Tournament at Riverbank State Park from 10:30 a.m.
Museums
Museum of Modern Art will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History will be open from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
The recently renovated New-York Historical Society will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The New Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
New York Hall of Science will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The always-free National Museum of the American Indian will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Musem of the Moving Image in Queens will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. with Magic and Movies workshops at 1 and 3 p.m.
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferries depart from Battery Park and New Jersey from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Liberty Island is open but the interior of the Statue of Liberty is closed for repairs.)
Socrates Sculpture Park is open daily from 10 a.m. to sunset.
9/11 Memorial will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. with the last admission at 7 p.m. (A free, reserved pass is required.)
General Grant National Memorial and Visitors Center will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage will be open from 10 a.m to 5:45 p.m.
Jewish Children’s Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring the Dead Sea Scrolls with the Ten Commandments, and CSI: The Experience exhibitions will open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Museum of Sex - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (last ticket sold at 7:15 p.m.)
Madame Tussauds wax museum opens 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium is open daily from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Bodies exhibition at the South Street Seaport is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Dialog in the Dark at the South Street Seaport is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Ground Zero Museum Workshop on 14th Street offers tours at noon, 2 and 4 p.m.
Zoos, parks and gardens
Central Park Zoo will be open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Prospect Park Zoo will be open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Queens Zoo will be open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
New York Aquarium - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
New York Botanical Garden opens with the Holiday Train Show from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The High Line will be open regular winter hours, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Jane’s Carousel will be spinning in Brooklyn Bridge Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Concerts, shows and comedy gigs
Playbill’s list of Broadway shows on New Year’s Day include “Anything Goes,” “Chicago,” “Chinglish,” “Follies,” “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway,” “Jersey Boys,” “Memphis,” “The Mountaintop,” “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” “Other Desert Cities,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Relatively Speaking,” “Rock of Ages,” “Sister Act,” “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and “War Horse.”
Off-Broadway shows with Jan. 1 performance times include “Avenue Q,” “Blood and Gifts,” “Blue Man Group,” “Channeling Kevin Spacey,” “The Gazillion Bubble Show,” “NEWSical the Musical,” “Rent,” “Say Goodnight Gracie,” “Sistas: The Musical,” “Sons of the Prophet” and “Stomp.”
TKTS at the South Street Seaport will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the Times Square booth will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the Brooklyn location will be closed.
Radio City Spectacular will perform at 2 and 5 p.m.
Strauss Symphony of America plays the Salute to Vienna, New Year’s Concert at Lincoln Center at 2:30 p.m
New Edition plays the Paradise Theater in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage “The Pirates of Penzance” at Symphony Space at 3 p.m.
The Bad Plus play the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
DJ Afrika Bambaataa and guests play (le) poisson rouge at 10 p.m.
Tracy Morgan comedy show at Caroline’s begins at 7:30 p.m.
Poetry Project’s 38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading starts at 3 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club’s 18th annual free Kaleidoscope: The Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word Performance Extravaganza from 2 p.m. to midnight
Staten Island OutLOUD’s free Candle light and poetry stroll on New Year’s Day starts at 2 p.m. in Tappen Park.
Free Share – free audio & video jam at 3 p.m. at the Issue Project Room.
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater stages “A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa (Happy Ramadan)” at Clockworks Puppet Theatre at 4 p.m.
Big Apple Circus performs at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Mike Stern Band featuring Randy Brecker, John Patitucci and Dave Weckl at the Iridium Jazz Club at 8 and 10 p.m.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at NY City Center at 7:30 p.m.
Leftöver Crack plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
The Birdland Jazz Party featuring Nancy Harms at Birdland at 6 p.m.
Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at 9 and 11 p.m. at Birdland.
Joseph Arthur & Tift Merritt play City Winery at 8 p.m.
Billy Joel tribute band “Big Shot” plays BB Kings at 8 p.m.
New Year’s Day Hangover Party at Webster Hall begins at 10 p.m.
Chris Botti plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (sold out)
Gotham All-Stars at the Gotham Comedy Club at 8 p.m.
Hypnotist Matthew James at Caroline’s at 4 p.m.
Cirque Shanghai dances Bai Xi at the New Victory Theater at 2 p.m. (sold out)
230 Fifth rooftop lounge opens from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Restaurants
List of restaurants open New Year’s Day from OpenTable.com.
Sunday Gospel Brunch at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill.
New Year’s Day Disco Brunch with Disco Unlimited starts at 2:30 p.m. at the Highline Ballroom.
Klezmer Brunch with Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket Revue at City Winery at 11 a.m.
Dave Pietro & his NYU Ensemble play the Jazz Brunch at the Blue Note at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Red Rooster Gospel Brunch and Dinner
Julianna Barwick plays the Avant-Brunch at 1:30 p.m. at Manhattan Inn Brooklyn.
Around Manhattan brunch cruise on the Yacht Manhattan departs at 10:30 a.m. (sold out)
Carnegie Deli is open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Queens will open at 3 p.m.
A few more New Year’s Day brunch suggestions from Grub Street.
Shops and markets
Russ & Daughters will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Zabar’s will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Fairway markets open in Harlem from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Red Hook opens 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Upper West Side from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m; and Upper East Side from 8 a.m. to midnight.
Ice skating rinks
In Central Park, Wollman Rink at the southern end and Trump Lasker Skating Rink on northern end will both be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Rink at Rockefeller Center is open for multiple skating sessions from 9 a.m. to midnight.
Citi Pond ice rink at Bryant Park will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The indoor Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers will be open for ice skating from noon to 5:20 p.m.
Riverbank State Park public ice skating sessions are set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.
Aviator Sports ice rink at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn will open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m.
Standard Hotel ice rink will be open from 9 a.m. to midnight.
Tours and walks
Free Early-morning Bird Walk at 10 a.m. in Prospect Park.
Free Annual New Year’s Day Beach Walk at Fort Tilden at 11 a.m. with the American Littoral Society.
Free Flatiron District tour at 11 a.m.
Ghosts of NY walking tours include The Ghosts of the City and Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends of the East Village at 2 p.m. and The Ghosts of Grand Central at 7:30 p.m.
Historic Times Square walking tour with Big Onion starts at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society’s Life on the Lower East Side walking tour will starts at 2 p.m.
Tours of the 2nd floor of the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park begin every half-hour from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Free Prospect Park tour at 3 p.m.
Tip-based Free Tours by Foot offers a Central Park tour at 10 a.m.; Lower East Side Food tour at 1 p.m.; and Midtown Manhattan at 2 p.m.
Watson Adventures’ Munch Around Chinatown Scavenger Hunt starts at 1 p.m.
Wall Street Walks’ The Jews of Lower Manhattan walking tour starts at 1 p.m.
Rockefeller Center tours are available multiple times between 10 and 4 p.m.
Radio City Music Hall tours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
NBC Studio Tours run every 15 minutes from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The Ride theater/tour bus runs hourly from noon to 4 p.m.
On Location Tours offers its Sex and the City Hotspots tour at 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m.; Gossip Girl Sites at noon; New York TV and Movie Sites at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.; and Uptown TV & Movie Sites at 3 p.m.
Circle Line’s 3-hour full-island cruise departs at 2:30 p.m.
New York Water Taxi’s hop-on/hop-off route runs on a one-boat two-boat schedule.
Zip Aviation offers helicopter tours from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
New York City Helicopter Charter tours are available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
HeliNY tours are available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Liberty Helicopter tours are offered from 9 a.m. to about 3:15 p.m.
Skyscraper observation decks
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock will be open from 10 a.m. to midnight; last elevator up at 11:10 p.m.
Empire State Building will be open.
Films
Symphony Space screens “Eames: The Architect and the Painter” at 4:15 and 8 p.m. and “Being Elmo” at 2:30 and 6:15 p.m.
Sunshine Cinemas screenings include “Pariah,” “Shame” and “A Dangerous Method.”
“AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13” screenings include “”Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol: The IMAX Experience” and “The Adventures of Tintin 3D.”
IFC Center screenings include “Eames: The Architect and the Painter,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Pina 3D,” “Into the Abyss” and “Howl’s Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro.)”
Angelika will screen “The Artist,” “My Week with Marilyn,” “Carnage” and “Melancholia.”
BAM screens “A Dangerous Method,” “Pina in 3-D,” “The Descendants” and “The Artist.”
Film Forum will screen “Laura,” “El Sicario, Room 164” and “A Separation.”
“The Artist” will screen at the Paris Theater.
Film Society of Lincoln Center screenings include “Pina,” “Pariah,” “Explorers” “‘A Trip to the Moon’ & Other Shorts” and “Miss Minoes.”
Museum of the Moving Image screens “Jim Henson and Friends: Inside the Sesame Street Vault” at 1 p.m.; “The Prestige” at 3 p.m.; and “Barry Lyndon” at 6 p.m.
The Museum of Modern Art screens “La Dolce Vita” at 2 p.m., “Santa Stinks” at 5:30 p.m. and “The Tenth Victim” at 5:45 p.m.
“Moneyball” screens at The Crosby Street Hotel at 8 p.m.
Shops
Some of the restaurants and The Shops at Columbus Circle will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Book Culture 20-percent off almost everything sale runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
All three Midtown Comics locations will be open noon to 7 p.m. with 20 percent off everything.
Transit
MTA subways and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule, “with longer waits on some bus routes.”
Staten Island Ferry will operate on a holiday schedule: every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. followed by hourly service.
PATH will operate on a holiday/Saturday schedule on New Year’s Day.
Metro-North holiday timetables
Ikea’s NY Water Taxi runs a regular schedule between Wall Street and Red Hook.
More
Spa Castle in Queens is open daily from 6 a.m. to midnight.
Mommy Poppins’ list of activities for families on New Year’s Day 2012.
Girl of the Year 2012 Debut at American Girl from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
In addition, some 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. The department stores’ holiday windows are still up around the clock as well.
Earlier: What’s open Christmas Day 2011 in New York City
Open on Thanksgiving: Broadway, ice rinks, museums
What’s open New Year’s Day 2011 in NYC
December 29, 2011 1:05 PM in Broadway, Cheap Stuff, Foodology, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours, Upper East Side, Upper West Side
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