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What's the Best Time to Visit New York City? Which is the best season to visit NYC? Ask four different New Yorkers and get four different answers. NYC is great in every season. Here are some recommendations from NYC & Company, the New York City Visitors Bureau: Winter
If you’re lucky enough to be here for a big snowfall, there’s nothing like strolling through Central Park surrounded by quiet broken only by the sounds of children laughing as they sled down hills. Just try to resist making snow angels. Enjoy beautiful
outdoor ice skating at: Spring
A little known fact: New York is America’s greenest city, based on percentage of total land comprised of parkland. If you love a parade, we’ve got ‘em, uptown, downtown, all around town for all occasions: St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Greek Day, Cuban Day, Salute to Israel, and Puerto Rican Day to name a few. May brings Bike New York -- a five-borough bike tour, and Fleet Week, when ships from all around the world dock in New York Harbor. Summer
Many of New York’s finest restaurants offer discounted three-course prix-fixe lunches and dinners throughout the summer as an extension of our popular Summer Restaurant Week. The baseball season continues; tennis fans cheer at the U.S. Open Tournament in Queens. Summer fun also includes Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, a citywide beach volleyball tournament, Harlem Week, the Taste of Times Square, food festivals, crafts fairs, street fairs, and much, much more. Fall
Opening nights for the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera are in September, and October brings such highlights as the Columbus Day Parade, Belmont Park’s Breeder’s Cup, and the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular kicks off November, followed by the New York City Marathon, the New York Chocolate Show, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Garden Train Show, and the lighting of the tree in Rockefeller Center. Other
great fall events include the Mid-Atlantic Skating Championships, New York Film
Festival, and parades for Steuben Day, African American Day, and Hispanic Day.
Visitors in the know spend the evening before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade watching the gigantic floats being filled with helium in preparation for the holiday promenade along Central Park West and down Broadway. Get
into the holiday spirit with a performance of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular,
A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, or any of many other special holiday performances.
New York City is also the Shopping Capital of the World – so get a head start
and find something for everyone on your list. NYC
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