5 – 8 pm ICP Community Maker’s Market Art Community International Center of Photography (ICP)Lower East Side
5:30 pm Nightly Lighting of World’s Largest Menorah Ages: AllFamily Free Holiday Grand Army Plaza – Fifth Avenue
6 – 8 pm From The Other Side of Darkness (When There’s No Place Like Home) Art Attractions Teatro LATEAEast
6 – 7 pm Rescue and Resiliency: Surviving the Collapse of the Twin Towers Free History & Culture 9/11 MuseumBattery Park
6 – 7 pm 14Y’s Chanukah in Union Square Ages: 12 and underCommunity Craft & DIY Family Union Square Park, North PlazaUnion Square
6 – 9 pm Rocco Dellaneve’s Rat Pack Christmas featuring the High Kicking Serafina’s The Algonquin Hotel
7 – 8 pm Craig Harris & the Harlem Nightsongs Big Band Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem
7 – 9 pm ‘Twas the Night Before… by Cirque du Soleil Ages: AllChristmas Dance Family The Theater at MSGMidtown
7 pm YPC Performs at St. Patrick’s Cathedral’s Annual “A City Singing at Christmas” Concert Ages: AllFamily Free Music St. Patrick’s Cathedral
7:30 – 10 pm The Glenn Crytzer Quartet at Festival Café (UES) Food & Drink Music Upper East Side (UES)
7:30 – 9 pm Truman vs. Israel: Abzug and the Undressing of Truman Theater Theater at St. ClementsTheater District
8 – 9:30 pm Killing Mrs. Claus: A new inappropriate holiday comedy LGBTQ+ Theater Theater for the New City
Dec. 19, 8 am Brooklyn Prom Project: Holiday Gift Wrapping at Kings Plaza Kings Plaza Shopping Center
Jan. 24, 2026, noon Brooklyn Family Ultimate Camp Fair & Activity Expo – Industry City Industry City Building 5, 2A
Jan. 24, 2026, noon Brooklyn Family Ultimate Camp Fair & Activity Expo – Industry City Industry City Building 5, 2A
March 8, 2026, noon Brooklyn Family Ultimate Camp Fair & Activity Expo – Park Slope Congregation Beth Elohim
Brooklyn Paper Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Guide: Brooklyn holiday spectacle draws visitors from around the world