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The holidays start this week: what’s first on your list?
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The Transit Museum’s model trains run free in its Grand Central gallery, 10 AM to 7:30 PM today and through February. The Botanical Garden’s train show opens tomorrow, and the Comedy Festival wraps Sunday. Every light, market and show to January 3 is in one place.
The Palisades in color from Classic Harbor Line’s 1920s-style yachts — brunch, lunch & naturalist-narrated runs (bald eagles are regularly spotted) · last sailings Nov 15
99 Gansevoort · his first New York retrospective since 1993, about 130 works · through May 10 · pair it with the High Line, which starts right outside Chelsea📍★ 3 saved this month
The holiday shops and the free-admission rink open today (rink from noon) · shops through Jan 3, rink through Feb 28 📍
Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek’s opera of George Saunders’s Booker-winning novel — Lincoln grieving his son among the restless ghosts of a Georgetown cemetery · Peter Mattei as Lincoln, with Christine Goerke, Stephanie Blythe & Anthony Roth Costanzo; Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts · Sat Oct 24 matinee, then Oct 26, 29 & 31Upper West Side
The Christmas Spectacular is on now · weekday & early-November shows are the easiest gets · through Jan 4Midtown
When downtown designers took over the old schoolhouse · MoMA PS1, Queens · free admission · through Mar 15 📍
The Carlyle, 35 E 76th St · piano under the Madeline murals, martinis & standards — from The Venues · wild card, reshuffles every visit 📍
Emma Rice’s original Kneehigh staging, with a live band and aerial work · Dumbo, Brooklyn · ages 8+
Its final week: 200+ comedians and 100+ shows across all five boroughs, through Sun Nov 15
370 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg · a community museum of subway tokens, seltzer bottles & Liberty kitsch — from Odd Gotham · wild card, reshuffles every visit 📍
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