New Year's Day: What to Do in New York City
The evening’s
festivities are over; here are some activities to consider for the first day of
2018.
Are you a
daredevil? The weather promises to be
freezing on New Year’s Day, but that doesn’t deter these folks from plunging
into the icy cold water at Coney Island in Brooklyn. The Coney Island Polar Bear
Club New Year’s Day
Plunge is free with and begins at 1pm at
the Stillwell Avenue boardwalk entrance. Participants get free admission to the
New York Aquarium and a post-dip warm up at Coney Island Brewing Company and
Steeplechase Beer Garden. A $25 donation is suggested to benefit local Coney
Island organizations including the New York Aquarium and the Alliance for Coney
Island.
Train lovers
still have time to catch the annual Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx where model trains travel through a miniature landscape of 150+ iconic city structures. This year's version spotlights Midtown Manhattan, with a new Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, General Electric Building and more on view through January 15. Advance reservations are strongly recommended as tickets sell out.
In Queens, the 2018
Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic®—hockey’s highest profile regular-season game—will be held at Citi
Field on New Year’s Day. January 1, 2018
will mark the first time the game is held in New York City. Even if you don’t
have a ticket, there will still be fun activities outside of the stadium
starting at 9am including a DJ, giveaways, refreshments and more.
If you plan to ice skate at Rockefeller Center, 5th
Avenue between 49th and 50th streets, here’s what you need to know
to book a reservations through VIP igloo if you’d like to avoid the lines and
also get complimentary skate rentals (although general admission does not
require a reservation.) https://therinkatrockcenter.com/vip-skate-rink-reservations
https://therinkatrockcenter.com/reservations. Hours are 8:30am until midnight daily.
Warm up after with Maison du Chocolat’s fabulously, thick
and perfectly sweet chocolat at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and also on the Upper East
Side at 1018 Madison Avenue. http://www.lamaisonduchocolat.us/en_us/
Or at Jacques Torres, aka Mr. Chocolate,
also at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. http://www.mrchocolate.com/
And no matter where or what the New Year’s celebrations have
been, the potato powered FryGuys, www.fryguysnyc.com
will be ready to soothe your hunger or hangover with their new boat load
of OG twice fried frys, topped with scrambled eggs, bacon an cheese, then
crowned with a fried egg and fried chicken. Dubbed the Brunch so Hard, this will satisfy
your hunger as you enter the New Year. FryGuys, 150 2nd Street.
For more NYC info, check out. www.nycgo.com.
For more NYC info, check out. www.nycgo.com.
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