The event A Storybook Christmas organized at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in the Bronx on the occasion of the Annual Holiday Family Day, theon December 1st. The museum features special Christmas trees inspired by children's Christmas fairy tales, puppet shows, Christmas crafts, photographs with Santa and much more. To participate, you must book at info@bpmm.org
A dip back in time is what visitors will do Van Cortlandt House, the oldest house in the Bronx built in 1748. For two consecutive weekends in mid-December, guided tours Van Cortlandt by Candlelight are organized to admire the house decorated with original 18th century decorations and lit by candlelight.
A Brooklyn for over 25 years in the holiday season, thousands of visitors head to Dyker Heights, a small residential neighborhood between Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, to see private homes festooned with giant light decorations. A Slice of Brooklyn's Christmas Lights and Cannoli Tour organizes guided tours of the area and tasting of typical sweets.
The new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, inaugurated in late September, hosts the Disney on Ice ice skating show: Rockin 'Ever After, from November 27 to December 2 (barclayscenter.com).
A Manhattan twelve stars of four meters each will "dance" to the rhythm of Christmas music suspended 45 meters high in the Great Room of the Time Warner Center from November to January. Also at the Time Warner Center, Inside the Circle offers information on special and cooking events, promotions and prizes.
The Broadway Christmas show is A Christmas Story, The Musical !, based on the 80s film of the same name, which will be staged from November 19 to December 30 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents numerous Christmas concerts that will be performed in front of the museum's Christmas tree and the Neapolitan Baroque Crèche from 20 November to 6 January. The performance of the famous American vocalist group Chanticleer is scheduled, which presents the show A Chanticleer Christmas, on November 27 and December 2, with traditional Christmas carol, medieval and renaissance sacred music and contemporary festival songs. The Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine, directed by Kent Tritle, on the other hand, will perform O Magnum Mysterium: O Great Mystery on December 9 from 18.30pm to 20.30pm (metmuseum.org).
Le Parker Meridien presents for the fourth year Gingerbread Extravaganza: from 1 December 2012 to 3 January 2013 it will be possible to admire giant ginger sweets made by the best pastry chefs in New York City and depicting the most famous monuments in the world. For $ 1, visitors will be able to vote for the best creation and enter a sweepstakes. All proceeds will be donated to City Harvest, an organization supporting the poor and homeless in New York City.
La Queens Historical Society presents the Historic Holiday House Tour Sunday 9 December from 13pm to 17pm, a guided tour aboard a tram with stops at five festively decorated Queens museums and historic sites: Queens Historical Society at the Kingsland Homestead, Flushing Quaker Meeting House, Flushing Town Hall, Voelker Orth Museum and Lewis H. Latimer House.
Historic Richmond Town of Staten Island comes alive with sounds and lights during Christmas in Richmond Town, organized by Women's Auxiliary, Sunday 2nd December, with many activities from 10am to 17pm. Also in Richmond Town, on December 14th and 15th, the Candelight Tours, during which you can admire the houses lit with candles, oil lamps and crackling fireplaces.
