December 10, 2008
Actually, it's looking more and more like Spring here in New York, but that's done nothing to slow the oncoming train of the holidays. Some ideas for your consideration this festive season:
Ice Skating!
While the first snow of the year came and went with alarming speed (it lived for about five hours, by my count), there are some places in New York that stay frozen throughout the winter months. If you're into teeming masses, yearning to buy Brookstone products, the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center is like riding an icy subway train at rush hour, but you can get a lot of great shopping done, check out a show at NBC Studios, the Christmas Tree, and Top of The Rock. The Polar Rink (at the American Museum Of Natural History) and Seaport Ice (at South Street Seaport) are the city's newest skating attractions, and both have ameneties and features above and beyond your standard ice rink. Wollman Rink in Central Park even offers a holiday-specific skating event, Chanukah On Ice, on December 23rd. That's hardly all the city has to offer for the ice-obsessed, so we've cobbled together an href="/visitor_guide/the_ice_skater.1008784/editorial_review.aspx">Ice Skating Guide.
Let It... Show?
Broadway's holiday offerings include the usual classic productions like the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Irving Berlin's White Christmas, but this season has also brought the world-class clown antics of Slava's Snowshow--a mind-bendingly beautiful production and the perfect cure for a snowless New York Christmas--and the likewise brain-busting theatrics of Cirque du Soleil's new production Wintuk. And just to the wintery north of Broadway, the New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker
Off the Great White Way, there's a Holiday Train Show to be had at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Holiday Lights at the Bronx Zoo, an origami Christmas tree at the American Museum Of Natural History, and Winter Solstice celebrations at Symphony Space and the Cathedral Of St. John The Divine.
Shopping
The window displays of Fifth Avenue are a must-see every holiday season; perhaps you'd like a tour of the area? Or maybe you haven't finished your shopping and are in need of some great bargains? Woodbury Common Premium Outlets could be just the thing. Or if you've got a fashionista on your Christmas list this year, it might do you (and them) some good to explore fashionable SoHo & Nolita on a shopping tour!
New Year's Eve
As we hermetically seal 2008 and drop it into the undraggable depths of the East River, you can enjoy a beautiful New Year's Eve dinner cruise or, if you're less interested in eating and more interested in drinking--there's the standard New Year's Eve cruise. This is all assuming, of course, that you don't want to be in Times Square for the New Year's Eve ball-dropping festivities. And finally, to start (or end) the year on the right note, why not enjoy the New Year's Midnight Run?
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