(12/2-12/9) Each week, City Guide's Things To Do in NYC brings you the best in special NYC events, the newest exhibits, sightseeing activities, fun for kids, concerts, nightlife, and more. Thanksgiving is Thursday, Nov. 26! Click here to find the best in NYC Thanksgiving dining. For those beginning their holiday shopping on Friday, check out our gift guides! Gifts for him and her, and great tech gift ideas! For more things to do this holiday season in NYC, click here.
THE BIG EVENT
(12/2) Sting, Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, Pentatonix, James Taylor and other special guests come out for the annual Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting.
PLUS: (now-12/24) The Annual Holiday Fair at Grand Central Terminal is now open, with 70+ vendors!
(12/3) The Holiday Wrap Up at Grand Central Terminal.
(12/3) Join the Young Friends of the Museum for their Light Up The Night Hanukkah Gala at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 8pm
(12/6) Annual Lighting of the World's Largest Hanukah Menorah. This whopping 32-foot-high, two-ton menorah is set up at Grand Army Plaza in midtown (Fifth Avenue and 59th Street). It will remain lit through Dec. 13.
(12/6) Each year in early December, the Parish of Calvary-St. George’s holds its annual Candlelight Service in celebration of the Christmas season, a tradition in the city of New York for more than 125 years.
(12/4-6) CraftBrooklyn 2015 at Brooklyn Expo Center.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
(ongoing) New York has had a fascination with the treasures of King Tut since archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed them nearly a century ago. Visitors to Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue can walk in Carter’s footsteps in the remarkable recreation The Discovery of King Tut. Click here for a discount coupon.
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(12/7) AMNH Presents: Dark Matter & Dinosaurs
(ongoing) The Force is strong in New York! Star Wars and the Power of the Costume: The Exhibition is atat Discovery Times Square.
(now-2/21/16) Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(ongoing) Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 opens at the Brooklyn Museum.
(ongoing) Celebrate New York's role in the tech revolution at Silicon City at the New-York Historical Society.
(ongoing) The Secret World Inside You provides an incredible tour of the human body, at the American Museum of Natural History.
(now-1/31/16) Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars, the first-ever full exhibit on the author's life and works, now at the Morgan Library & Museum.
(ongoing) Alberto Burri and the Trauma of Painting at The Guggenheim presents a major retrospective of the Italian artist known for his work with non-traditional materials such as burlap, wood, tar, and plastic.
(now-2/28/16) Flavor: Making It and Faking It at the brand-new Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in Brooklyn.
(now-2/7/16) Emerging artist (and New Yorker) Rachel Rose at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
(now-2/21/16) Superheroes in Gotham at the New-York Historical Society explores the origins, influences, and culture of beloved NYC-based comic book phenomenons, dating back to the 1930s.
(ongoing) On The Line: Intrepid & The Vietnam War has opened at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The Intrepid made three tours of duty in Vietnam between 1966-1969. Here's a coupon!
(ongoing) The Butterfly Conservatory is back at AMNH.
(ongoing) Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism presents vintage furnishings, housewares, and graphics to explore how Jewish émigré and American-born designers and architects helped spark America's embrace of midcentury modernism—forging a bold new direction in design and thought. The Museum of Jewish Heritage.
(ongoing) Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition is open at Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue. Get your discount coupon here!
(ongoing) Pixar: The Design of Story is now open at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
(now-1/10/16) Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival at the Museum of the City of New York explores Bob Dylan and the explosion of folk music, esp. in Greenwich Village.
(now-12/31) A campground becomes an adult playground in the multisensory Splendor in the Grass at the Museum of Sex. Take $3 off here!
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: COMEDY
12/6 John Waters' Christmas: Holier and Dirtier at City Winery.
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(12/3) Rockefeller Tree Lighting Comedy: Lit Up! at Broadway Comedy Club
(12/4-5) Fortune Feimster at Gotham Comedy Club.
Check out the hottest in up 'n' coming comedy talent at Broadway Comedy Club. Here is a 2 for 1 coupon!
Enjoy an evening of great comedy on the Upper East Side at legendary venue Dangerfield's.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: KIDS
12/6 Dan Zanes & Friends daytime holiday show at City Winery.
(now-1/3) Perennial holiday favorite George Balanchine's The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet returns.
(12/4-1/3/16) Pedal Punk at New Victory Theater.
(now-1/3) The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is back!
(now-1/16/16) The Holiday Train Show is open at New York Botanical Garden.
(now-1/10/16) Big Apple Circus: The Grand Tour! at Lincoln Center in Damrosch Park.
(now through 1/3/16) Hunger Games: The Exhibition and Star Wars: The Power of the Costume are both open at Discovery Times Square!
(Permanent) Connected Worlds is now open at the New York Hall of Science.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: SIGHTSEEING
A Slice of Brooklyn’s Christmas Lights Tour runs every night in December (except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day). The 3 1/2-hour tour highlights the festive homes of Dyker Heights, the Italian-American section of Brooklyn made famous in the PBS documentary Dyker Lights and seen on TLC’s Crazy Christmas Lights. asliceofbrooklyn.com.
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(12/4, 12/6) Enjoy a Holiday Lights Cruise with Spirit Cruises
(12/3) Central Park Annual Lighting Ceremony at Charles A. Dana Discovery Center
(12/4-5) Holiday Candlelight Tours at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
See New York City as if it were your own private theater! Take THE RIDE: Holiday Edition! Here's a $10 off coupon!
(ongoing) The Rockefeller Center Ice Skating Rink is open!
Check out the new "tour about nothing" When Harry Met Seinfeld with On Location Tours.
Learn about the 27-world-championship legacy of the Bronx Bombers on a Yankee Stadium Tour!
The One World Observatory is now open. Click here for a free collectible pin!
Explore NYC's financial district with Wall Street Walks.
Check out the hottest spots to eat and drink in the Flatiron District and Williamsburg with Like a Local Tours.
Take a selfie with Taylor Swift, One Direction, Ed Sheeran and countless other famous celebs at Madame Tussauds New York! Here's a coupon!
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: NIGHTLIFE & MUSIC
12/4 Neko Case at the Apollo Theater
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(12/2) Erykah Badu at Kings Theatre.
(12/4-5) Bar Car Nights at the New York Botanical Garden.
(12/4) Sheila E. at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
(12/5) Cyndi Lauper & Friends at the Beacon Theatre.
(12/5) Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker at Kings Theatre
(12/5) Imagine John Lennon: 75th Birthday Concert at Madison Square Garden, wtih Aloe Blacc, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, Brandon Flowers (The Killers), Peter Frampton, JUANES, Kris Kristofferson, Pat Monahan (Train), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Willie Nelson, The Roots, Chris Stapleton, and Steven Tyler.
(now-12/14) Woody Allen & the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band perform (*Mondays only) at Cafe Carlyle.
SNEAK PEEK, NEXT WEEK
(12/8-9, 11-12, 14, 17-18) Mariah Carey: All I Want for Christmas at the Beacon Theatre
(12/9) Andrea Bocelli at Madison Square Garden
