6 – 8 pm Lott House Tree Lighting with Sinterklaas Ages: AllChristmas Family Free Hendrick I. Lott HouseBrooklyn
6:30 – 8:30 pm Listen to Carolers While Shopping the Neighborhood Ages: AllChristmas Family Free Bronx Little ItalyBronx
6:30 – 8 pm Works & Process at the Guggenheim announces Peter & the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev with Isaac Mizrahi Ages: AllFamily Theater GuggenheimManhattan
7 pm The 20th Annual Christmas Show at St. George Theatre Ages: AllChristmas Family Holiday St. George TheatreSaint George
7 – 8 pm Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid Ages: AllFamily Holiday Theater Axis TheatreWest Village
7 – 8 pm A Christmas Carol the Musical Ages: AllCaribbean Christmas Family The Players TheatreNew York City
7 pm The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation Ages: AllDance Family Holiday The Metropolitan Opera HouseManhattan
8 pm Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s New York City Center Season Ages: AllCaribbean Dance Family New York City CenterMidtown Manhattan
8 pm George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker Ages: 5 and upChristmas Dance Family David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln CenterManhattan
Various ‘Twas the Night Before… by Cirque du Soleil Ages: AllChristmas Family Holiday The Theater at Madison Square GardenManhattan
Various Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes Ages: AllChristmas Dance Family Radio City Music HallNew York City
All day Rockefeller Center Après Skate Chalets Presented by Balsam Hill Ages: AllFamily Food & Drink The Rink at Rockefeller CenterManhattan
All day The Rink at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park Ages: AllChristmas Family Free Bryant ParkNew York City
Various BIG APPLE CIRCUS and CIRCUS-THEATER RONCALLI Ages: AllAttractions Family Damrosch Park at Lincoln CenterManhattan
All day Shine Bright Only at Hudson Yards Presented by Wells Fargo Ages: AllFamily Free Holiday The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson YardsManhattan
Various Celebrate the Holidays with Cultures from Around the World Ages: AllAttractions Family Holiday Children’s Museum of ManhattanNew York
All day Meatpacking District’s Holiday Light Display + Iconic Snowpeople Ages: AllFamily Gansevoort PlazaMeatpacking
Noon – 5 pm Christmas in Historic Richmond Town Ages: AllChristmas Family History & Culture Historic Richmond TownStaten Island
8 am – 5 pm The Rink at Rockefeller Center Ages: AllAttractions Family Outdoors Rockefeller CenterManhattan
9 am – 8:30 pm Harry Potter: The Exhibition Ages: AllAttractions Family Herald TowersMidtown Manhattan
9 am – 5 pm Breakfast With Santa Ages: AllChristmas Family Food & Drink Stella 34 Trattoria at Macy’s Herald SquareManhattan
9 am – noon Jingle Bell Run Ages: AllChristmas Family Fundraisers Hofstra University – USA BuildingHempstead
Dec. 10, noon Celebrate the Creative Spirit at Marble Church’s Artisans’ Boutique Marble Collegiate Church
QNS Following George Santos’ expulsion from Congress, state legislators gather in Douglaston to promote bill that would prevent other liars from taking office
Brooklyn Paper PHOTOS: Brooklynites celebrate first night of Hanukkah and ‘light over darkness’ by lighting boro’s largest menorah