11 am – 6 pm FAD Market: Holiday Pop-up – Boerum Hill Ages: AllArt Community The Invisible Dog Art CenterBrooklyn
11 am – 7 pm The Makers Show Holiday Market at City Point Ages: AllFree Holiday City Point BKLYNBrooklyn
11 am – 5 pm South Street Seaport Museum Chanukah Menorah Lighting Activities Ages: AllFree Holiday South Street Seaport MuseumDowntown Manhattan
11 am – 7 pm Photos with Santa at The Shops at Atlas Park Ages: AllChristmas Free The Shops at Atlas ParkGlendale
11 am – 6 pm Santa at Stew Leonards East Meadow Ages: AllChristmas Free Stew Leonard’s East MeadowEast Meadow
Noon – 6 pm The Calling: The Transformative Power of African American Doll and Puppet Making Ages: AllArt Free City LoreEast Village
Noon Once Upon a Snowflake – an autism-friendly performance Ages: AllFree Special Needs Syosset Public LibrarySyosset
Noon – 1 pm Once Upon a Snowflake: An Autism Friendly Performance at Syosset Public Library Ages: AllChristmas Free Syosset Public LibrarySyosset
Noon – 6 pm Winter Wanderland: Presented by theSkimm X Brookfield Place Ages: AllFree Holiday Brookfield PlaceTribeca
Noon – 3 pm Chanukah Festival at Commonpoint Queens Central Queens Ages: AllFestivals Free Commonpoint Queens Central QueensForest Hills
Noon – 6 pm Holiday Open Streets on Fifth Avenue Ages: AllAttractions Community Fifth Avenue, from 48th to 59th StreetManhattan
1 – 2 pm Hibernation Hike Ages: AllAnimals Free Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical GardenStaten Island
1:30 – 3:30 pm B J C Hosts Community Chanukah Concert and Party Ages: AllCommunity Concert Bronx Jewish CenterBronx
3 – 5 pm Seaport Chanukah Menorah Lighting & Celebration Ages: AllFree Holiday The Heineken Riverdeck at Pier 17Manhattan
3 – 3:45 pm 50th Annual Tuba Christmas at Rockefeller Center® Ages: AllFree Holiday Rockefeller CenterManhattan
3 – 5 pm Brooklyn Book Bodega @ Red Hook Art Project (Book Giveaway All Ages) Ages: AllBooks & Readings Free Red Hook Art ProjectBrooklyn
3:30 – 5 pm The Rock Underground Holiday Show Ages: 5 and upChristmas Community Patchogue Medford LibraryPatchogue
4 pm Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale Giant Menorah Lighting Ages: AllFree Holiday The Bell Monument at Bell Tower ParkBronx
Dec. 17, noon Sing of the Season With Live Caroling on the Fifth Avenue Steps of Marble Church Marble Collegiate Church
Brooklyn Paper PHOTOS: Brooklynites celebrate first night of Hanukkah and ‘light over darkness’ by lighting boro’s largest menorah