Things To Do in NYC in February 2025

Things to do in NYC in February 2025 include many Black History Month celebrations. The City gets back into it’s rhythm after catching its breath from the holidays. Popular February events include: New York Fashion Week, NYC Restaurant Week, NYC Broadway Week, and NYC Off-Broadway Week.

The first week of February is the cheapest time to visit New York City with lots of deals on travel, hotels, food, and events. February weather is late winter. New York City’s snowiest month is still a great time to visit. You just have to plan where you are going because it may be cold outside and slushy after storms. Wear a jacket, hat, scarf, and gloves, so you can layer. Wear boots for walking in slush.

The February national holiday is the long Presidents Day Weekend on February 14-17, 2025. Valentines Day is a popular festival on Friday, February 14, 2025. NYC Schools Midwinter Recess is Feb 17-21, 2025.

Carnival Tuesday, the climax of the world’s biggest Latin party, is February 17, 2026.

FEBRUARY 2025
1-2 | 3-9 | 10-16 | 17-23 | 24-28

Thank you for sponsoring Latin Culture in February!

• Carnegie Hall “Nuestros Sonidos”

MONTH

• February is Black History Month. It’s an important month in the African Diaspora because many famous African Americans were born in February, but also because the Feast of Our Lady of Candelaria on February 2 celebrates the patron saint of the African Diaspora, and because Carnival which is usually in February (March in 2025), used to be the only time the Diaspora was allowed to celebrate its own heritage traditions.
• Snow Moon, February 1, 2026 🌝
• Dominican Heritage Month New York, Jan 21 – Feb 27 🇩🇴

NATIONAL DAYS

• Grenadian Independence Day, Feb 7 🇬🇩
• Presidents Day, Feb 16, 2025 🇺🇸
• Gambian Independence Day, Feb 18 🇬🇲
• Saint Lucian Independence Day, Feb 22 🇱🇨
• Dominican Independence Day, Feb 27 🇩🇴

FESTIVALS

• Lunar New Year Feb 17 – Mar 3, 2026 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇰🇭 🇰🇷 🇰🇵 🇯🇵 🇲🇳 🇵🇭 🇸🇬 🇹🇼 🇹🇭
• Candelaria, Feb 2 🇮🇨
• Oyá, Feb 2 🇨🇺
• Maman Brigitte, Feb 2 🇭🇹
• Lourdes, Feb 11 🇫🇷
• Valentines, Feb 14 🇮🇹 ❤️

BIRTHDAYS

• Langston Hughes, Feb 1 🇺🇸
• Shakira, Feb 2 🇨🇴
• Rosa Parks, Feb 4 🇺🇸
• Bob Marley, Feb 6 🇯🇲
• Tite Curet Alonso, Feb 12 🇵🇷
• Frederick Douglass, Feb 14 🇺🇸
• Julia de Burgos, Feb 17 🇵🇷

TRAVEL

• Carnival Tuesday is February 17, 2026
• Dominican Carnival is in cities and towns across the Dominican Republic every weekend in February. 🇩🇴

ART

The 71st Winter Show 2025 antiques fair benefits East Side House Settlement with over 70 exhibitors from around the world and a special focus on Americana; at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, with an Opening Night Party on January 23 from 5-9pm, and the public show from January 24 – February 2, 2025 that opens at 12 noon; and a Young Collectors Night on January 30, 2025. From $30. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

DANCE THEATRE

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FOOD

NYC Restaurant Week 2025 Winter fixed price meals are available in all five New York City boroughs from January 21 to February 9, 2024. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

MUSIC

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

FESTIVALS

African Diaspora Orishas, Loas, and Saints

February 2 is a big day for orishas, loas, and saints in the African diaspora.

Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands; miners, and the African Diaspora. 🇪🇸 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

Yemayá, the great mother orisha of the sea, is celebrated in Brazilian Candomblé on February 2. 🇧🇷

Oyá, the Yoruba orisha of storms, death, and rebirth, is celebrated in Cuba and Puerto Rico on February 2. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Maman Brigitte, the Haitian loa of death and rebirth, is celebrated on February 2. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸

BIRTHDAYS

Langston Hughes, the jazz poet who spoke so eloquently of rivers, was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1901. He lived in Mexico for a short time with his father, and spoke Spanish. In fact, he translated beloved Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral who was the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. 🇺🇸

DANCE THEATRE

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FASHION

New York Fashion Week February 2025 presents women’s fall/winter 2025 collections in runway shows and fashion presentations at West Edge in Chelsea, Manhattan, and around town; from Thursday-Tuesday, February 6-11, 2025. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇪🇸

Latin fashion houses and designers official New York Fashion Week include:

• Alejandra Alonso Rojas is from Spain. @alejandraalonsorojas 🇪🇸
• FILIPINXT is from the Philippines. @filipinxt.show 🇵🇭
• Sergio Hudson is an African American celebrity designer from South Carolina. @sergiohudson 🇺🇸
• Willy Chavarria is Irish Mexican American from California. @willychavarrianewyork 🇲🇽

Fashion Designers of Latin America (FDLA) 2025 Day 1 presents Agatha Ruiz de la Prada from Spain, Yirko Sivirich from Peru, Juan Carlos Collazo from Puerto Rico, Disiego Borrero from Puerto Rico, Bárzaga from Cuba, Willfredo Gerardo from Mexico, Idol Jose from Venezuela, and Carlos Pineda from Mexico. Its at Canoe Studios in the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, February, 9, 2025. 12pm doors. From $100. 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Fashion Designers of Latin America (FDLA) 2025 Day 2 presents Pedro Juan Atelier from Colombia, and Idol Jose men’s wear from Florida; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Monday, February 10, 2025. 6pm doors. From $100. Giannina Azar from the Dominican Republic presents to FDLA members only. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴

Fashion Designers of Latin America (FDLA) 2025 Day 3 presents a pop-up buy the runway showroom at INNSiDE by Meliá New York Nomad in Chelsea, Manhattan on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. 4pm doors. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

FOOD

NYC Restaurant Week 2025 Winter fixed price meals are available in all five New York City boroughs from January 21 to February 9, 2024. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

MUSIC

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

SPORTS

The 149th Westminster Dog Show 2025 brings many Latin dog breeds to New York City. Agility and Obedience preliminaries and championships are at Javits Center in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; on February 8, 10 & 11, 2025. The Group judging and Best in Show evening events are at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on February 10-11, 2025. From $63. 🇨🇩 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇿🇼

THEATRE

NYC Off-Broadway Week 2025, 2-for-1 tickets for popular Latin Off-Broadway shows, “Los Soles Truncos,” “Emilio’s A Million Chameleons,” and “Dakar2000” go on sale on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 for shows from February 17 to March 9, 2025. 🇨🇦 🇵🇷 🇸🇳

“La gringa” is a classic comedy (28 years in repertory) about a New York Puerto Rican who visits the island and thinks she knows everything Boricua. “Ay bendito.” Editor KíkoKí: Honestly, I once made the same mistake in reverse. I thought I could understand my New York Puerto Rican audience by living in Puerto Rico. It doesn’t work that way. We live differently in New York than we do on the island. By Carmen Rivera, directed by René Buch at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 11am. 🇵🇷

“La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao,” is Marco Antonio Rodríquez’ adaptation of Junot Díaz’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New Jersey Dominican college kid who dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but fears that he suffers from the fukú curse, a legacy of the Dominican colonizers. Its at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 11am. In Spanish with subtitles. 🇩🇴

This is astute commentary on what it means to be Dominican today. The Dominican Republic is an island of contrasts, rich and poor, modern and ancient. It claims to be European, but is actually more African and Indigenous Taíno. So for a modern Dominican to be worried about a curse might not make sense to you, but makes perfect sense to many Dominicans.

“La llamada” (The Call) is Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s musical coming-of-age comedy about two Spanish teenagers who love reggaeton and Spanish pop music. At Christian summer camp, one has life-changing visions of God singing Whitney Houston songs. Directed by Rafa Sánchez with a live band. In Spanish with subtitles at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 8pm, and Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 3pm. 🇪🇸

NATIONAL DAYS

Grenadian National Day

Grenada Independence Day, from the United Kingdom, is February 7, 1974. 🇬🇩

BIRTHDAYS

Jamaican Birthday

Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend, was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica; on February 6, 1945. “Let’s get together and feel all right.” 🇯🇲

ART

BOOKS

DANCE THEATRE

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FASHION

FILM

MUSIC

Puerto Rican Salsa

Tito Nieves “50th Anniversary Tour” brings Puerto Rican salsa to Bergen Performing Arts Center (Bergen PAC) in Englewood, New Jersey; on Valentines Weekend, Sunday, February 16, 2024 at 7pm. From $39. 🇵🇷

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

PARADES & STREET FAIRS

SPORTS

THEATRE

NATURE

NATIONAL DAYS

FESTIVALS

Patron Saint of Healing

The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes; patron saint of healing and Lourdes, France; is February 11. 🇫🇷

Latin Festival

Valentines Day celebrates your entanglement with love or freedom from it, on a day that originally honored Roman saints on February 14. ❤️ 🇮🇹

African American Birthday

Frederick Douglass; the African American who brought the U.S. Constitution to life with his courage, intellect, and perseverance; celebrated his birthday on February 14, 1818. 🇺🇸

Latin Festival

Ash Wednesday, the Catholic festival that marks the start of Lent, the spiritual buildup to Easter: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” on February 14, 2024. ✝️

Latin Festival

Lent is the Catholic spiritual preparation for Easter. ✝️

BIRTHDAYS

Puerto Rican Birthday

“Tite” Curet Alonso, the salsa poet who wrote many salsa hits, was born in Guayama, one of the Puerto Rican towns famous for its Afro-Puerto Rican culture, on February 12, 1926. 🇵🇷