{"id":51803,"date":"2025-11-25T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:41:14","slug":"nyc-christmas-bucket-list-important-dates-to-keep-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51803\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Christmas bucket list: Important dates to keep in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764088870_501_14D594C370117F9518811DF0FF15841E.jpg\" alt=\"Ready to kick off the Christmas season in NYC\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">NEW YORK CITY &#8211; There&#8217;s only one more month &#8217;til Christmas, and FOX 5 NY has the need-to-know about upcoming festivities in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>   November <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Here are all the events coming up in the next month:<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764088870_927_792A9C494D217A2CFFFDC230F5DB2A4E.jpg\" alt=\"Final preparations underway for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gettyimages-2245749285-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Children watch a model train during a preview of the Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Garden in New York, the United States, on Nov. 11, 2025. A preview for the Holiday Train Show, which is open to the public from Nov. 15, 2025 to Jan. 11, 20 <\/p>\n<p>  NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Saturday, Nov. 29 December   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BDECC4979998E0098979FA26E3BB2A5A.jpg\" alt=\"Rockefeller Christmas tree is cut down\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/video\/1736660\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rockefeller Christmas tree is cut down<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">The 75-foot-high Norway Spruce was cut down early Thursday morning and hoisted onto a flatbed truck by crane. It will travel 140 miles (225 kilometers) to Rockefeller Center. The wrapped tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and raised into place at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gettyimages-1930882758-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">NEW YORK, US &#8211; JANUARY 16: People are seen during cold weather following snow days at the Central Park in New York City, United States on January 16, 2024. New York received its heaviest snowfall in the last two years, with a snow thickness of 2.54 c <\/p>\n<p>  Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Thursday, Dec. 4<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP4mojtgXTy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Williamsburg Winter Village opening<\/a> \u2013 Friday, Dec. 5Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Friday, Dec. 5NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Saturday, Dec. 6Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Monday, Dec. 8Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Tuesday, Dec. 9Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Wednesday, Dec. 10Broadway Under the Stars \u2013 Thursday, Dec. 11 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gettyimages-1290181363-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; DECEMBER 8: Christmas decorations on display at the Shops at Columbus Circle on December 8, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>  Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Thursday, Dec. 11Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Friday, Dec. 12NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Friday, Dec. 12<a href=\"https:\/\/santacon.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SantaCon<\/a> \u2013 Saturday, Dec. 13 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gettyimages-2189937215-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; DECEMBER 14: Revelers dressed as Santa Claus characters participate in the annual SantaCon pub crawl on December 14, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Craig T Fruchtman\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>  NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Saturday, Dec. 13Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Monday, Dec. 15Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Tuesday, Dec. 16Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Wednesday, Dec. 17Broadway Under the Stars \u2013 Thursday, Dec. 18   <\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; DECEMBER 23: People walk through Rockefeller Center two days before Christmas in midtown Manhattan on December 23, 2024 in New York City. The area is one of the nation&#8217;s most popular destinations for shopping and entertainment during the holiday season. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>   Gridlock Alert Day \u2013 Thursday, Dec. 18NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Friday, Dec. 19NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Saturday, Dec. 20<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/japanese-holiday-market-tickets-1866896801589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Japanese Holiday Market<\/a> \u2013 Saturday, Dec. 20Japanese Holiday Market \u2013 Sunday, Dec. 21NYBG Holiday Train show \u2013 Sunday, Dec. 21 <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information from the websites from locations listed.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/holidays\/christmas-nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas in NYC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY &#8211; There&#8217;s only one more month &#8217;til Christmas, and FOX 5 NY has the need-to-know&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22550,969,9,12,56,63,65,64,618],"class_list":["post-51803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-christmas-nyc","tag-holidays","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}