(12/22-12/29) 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. The holiday season is heating up in New York, with perennial favorites like The Nutcracker, the Rockettes, holiday lights cruises, and much more.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: THE BIG EVENT
(now-1/18/16) Get lost in a winter wonderland at The Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Garden
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(now-12/24) Last minute shoppers! The Annual Holiday Fair at Grand Central Terminal is now open, with 70+ vendors! Click here to read about more NYC Holiday Markets at Bryant Park, Union Square, and more!
(now-1/3) Perennial holiday favorite George Balanchine's The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet returns, bringing holiday enchantment for all ages.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
(now-Jan. 3) Final weeks! Hunger Games: The Exhibition at Discovery Times Square features hundreds of authentic costumes and props, high-tech and hands-on interactives and detailed set recreations. Here is a Discovery Times Square coupon!
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(12/27) AMNH Presents: Kwanzaa 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is in theaters now! The Force is strong in New York! Visit Star Wars and the Power of the Costume: The Exhibition, now at Discovery Times Square. The interactive exhibit features 70+ costumes, including seven from the new film!
(ongoing) Agitprop! at Brooklyn Museum connects contemporary art, social change, and historic moments in creative activism.
(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.
(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 trillions of micro-organisms living in and on 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
(12/24) A Very Special Jewish Christmas Eve Show at Broadway Comedy Club-w/Jon Fisch, Pat Dixon, Sheba Mason and Steve Marshall at 9pm. Here is a 2-for-1 coupon!
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(12/24) A Very Jewish Christmas at Gotham Comedy Club
Stand Up NY is offering admission for two guests FREE!
(12/26-27) Jesssica Kirson at Gotham Comedy Club
Enjoy an evening of great comedy on the Upper East Side at legendary venue Dangerfield's.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: KIDS
(now-1/3/16) Pedal Punk at the New Victory Theater.
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(12/22) Solstice Stars at the National Museum of Mathematics
(now-1/3) The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is back!
(now-1/16/16) The Holiday Train Show is open at the 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
(now-12/31) Enjoy a Holiday Lights Cruise with Spirit Cruises.
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(12/24) Full Moon Dinner Cruise with Bateaux New York
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. If you've never seen it, you won't want to miss it.
See New York City as if it were your own private theater! Take THE RIDE: Holiday Edition! Here's a 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
(12/23, 26) Darlene Love brings her "Love for the Holidays Show" to B.B. King Blues Club & Grill.
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(12/22) The Last Schmaltz at Highline Ballroom
(12/22) Jose Feliciano: Holiday Feliz Navidad Show at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
(12/23) Grab a friend and some dubious winter-wear for the Ugly Sweater Party at Howl at the Moon.
(now-12/24) Norm Lewis: Wishin You a Swingin Christmas at Feinstein's/54 Below.
(12/24) Full Moon Dinner Cruise on Christmas Eve with Bateaux New York.
(12/24) Christmas Eve Cruise with Spirit Cruises.
(12/27) A Beautiful New Year Celebration of Jazz at Highline Ballroom
(now-1/10/16) Trumpeter Chris Botti is in residency at The Blue Note.
(now-12/30) Michael Feinstein at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SNEAK PEEK, NEXT WEEK IN NYC
(1/1-2) Pete Correale at Gotham Comedy Club
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(12/31) Jimmy Buffett & Huey Lewis & the News at Barclays Center
(12/31) New Year's Eve on the Zephyr with New York Water Taxi! Click here for more New Year's Eve ideas
(12/31) An Evening with They Might Be Giants at Music Hall of Williamsburg
(1/1) New Year's Day Dinner Cruise with Bateaux New York
(1/2) Bar Car Nights at New York Botanical Garden
For more things to do in December, click here. Working on your holiday shopping? Check here for gifts for her, him, and NY-centric gift ideas.
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