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Christmas in New York

Christmas in New York begins with preparations in November, enters full swing over Thanksgiving Weekend, and ends in early January.

COVID-19 Pandemic

December 1, 2020 ~ Many New York traditions are virtual or cancelled this year, but even during a pandemic, New York City is still one of the best places in the world to celebrate the holidays.

New York City’s Holiday Festivals

Most New Yorkers call the season “The Holidays” instead of “Christmas” because we celebrate many traditions and not everyone celebrates Christmas. We use “Christmas” on these pages because that is what most people search for, but we do mean the holidays.

New Yorkers celebrate Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Letter of the Year, Three Kings Day and probably some other festivals we don’t know about yet.

Whatever you celebrate, we wish you and your family a Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year!

If you haven’t had enough of the holidays, visit Puerto Rico where the Christmas season starts on November 19 and ends with the San Sebastian Street Festival in Old San Juan, around January 15-20. Puerto Rico has the world’s longest holiday season.

Christmas Markets

Christmas Markets are fun and good places for children to do holiday shopping.

2020

Winter Village in Bryant Park is the only non-virtual holiday market this year.

Christmas Shows

New York City’s traditional Christmas shows are the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular, NYC Ballet’s Nutcracker, and Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration.

2020

Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration is streaming, but that’s about it this year.

Magic Flute

December 15, 2019 – January 4, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center, NYC
This shortened English family version of Mozart’s fairy tale opera is a New York holiday tradition

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Christmas Concerts

Christmas concerts make the season merry.

2020

Indoor entertainment is cancelled this year.

Three Kings Day

Three Kings Day is the climax of many Latin Christmas traditions. Epiphany, the Twelfth Day of Christmas, and the end of the Christmas season, is the traditional Latin gift-giving day.

The Three Kings represent all the parts of who we are as Latins: White, Black and Brown. They came from the orient and in the Caribbean and South America we have oriental Latins too. Can you think of any other traditional icons who represent diversity?

Latin Christmas Traditions

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