3 – 5 pm Julbord Feast at IKEA Brooklyn Ages: 3 and upCaribbean Community Family IKEA BrooklynBrooklyn
3:30 pm 1st Night Chanukah Concert @ The Largest Menorah Ages: AllConcert Family Free Brooklyn’s Largest MenorahBrooklyn
4:30 – 9:30 pm LuminoCity’s Holiday Lights Festival Ages: AllArt Attractions Family Eisenhower ParkEast Meadow
5 – 9 pm NYC Winter Lantern Festival Ages: AllAttractions Family Holiday Queens County Farm MuseumGlen Oaks
5 – 10 pm NYBG GLOW: An Outdoor Color & Light Experience Ages: AllAttractions Environment Family New York Botanical GardenBronx
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
Dec. 10, noon Celebrate the Creative Spirit at Marble Church’s Artisans’ Boutique Marble Collegiate Church
Brooklyn Paper ‘Now I’m being met with flowers’: Leon Thomas III, Grammy award-winning producer and childhood actor, plays first hometown show in Williamsburg