🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Holiday Lights at the Bronx Zoo
A walk-through holiday experience with millions of lights and hundreds of illuminated animal lanterns across six lantern trails representing nearly 100 species. Ticket holders enter at 3pm to see animal exhibits, then the lantern trails ope
NYBG GLOW (with Holiday Train Show)
NYBG GLOW is the Garden's outdoor evening holiday light experience, now in its fourth year, where iconic buildings and landscapes become canvases for thousands of choreographed lights set to sound. Admission to the indoor Holiday Train Show
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a Norway Spruce (75 feet in 2025) topped with a 900-pound Swarovski star of over 3 million crystals and about 50,000 multi-colored lights, stands over the Prometheus statue on Center Plaza. After the c
Saks Fifth Avenue Holiday Light Show
The facade of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship, across from Rockefeller Center, is transformed into a choreographed light show synchronized to music, paired with a Rockettes appearance. The show runs every 10 minutes from 5pm to 11pm nightly
Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Lightscape is an after-dark, roughly 90-minute walk along a winding illuminated trail through the Garden, featuring monumental lighted sculptures, colorful effects on trees, architecture and water features, and site-specific music and sound
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Tour (A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours)
The original guided bus tour of the Dyker Heights holiday lights (17th year), an organized, ticketed way to experience the famous Brooklyn residential displays including Lucy Spata's house, with on- and off-bus stops in Dyker Heights, Bay R
Magic of Lights — Jones Beach
A drive-through holiday lights experience enjoyed from your own car, featuring LED displays, the longest light tunnel on Long Island, the Toyota Holiday Village, and photos with Santa. The 2025 season ran November 21 – January 3, Sun–Thu 5:
Westchester's Winter Wonderland
A 1.2-mile drive-through holiday light journey experienced from the warmth of your car at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla. The official site lists hours of 4:30 PM to 10:45 PM and an accompanying audio guide via the Otocast app; the experienc
Turtle Back Zoo Holiday Lights Spectacular
A free walk-through display of over one million lights illuminating animal figures and holiday scenes across the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo grounds, with several animal exhibits open and photos with Santa. The 2025 season ran November 21
LuminoCity Holiday Lights Festival — Eisenhower Park
A large walk-through outdoor light festival across roughly 14 acres of Eisenhower Park, with immersive light-art sets, a 50-foot 'Castle in the Sky' installation, and a narrative journey led by mascot Lumi. The 2025 'Fantasy Winter Fairylan
Let It Glow! A Holiday Lantern Spectacular
A walk-through evening lantern festival at the Bergen County Zoo in Van Saun County Park, featuring over 40 scenes of larger-than-life, animal-themed illuminated lanterns, plus fire pits and s'mores. The 2025 run was November 6, 2025 – Janu
Shimmering Solstice at Old Westbury Gardens
A ticketed, timed-entry walk-through holiday light show along Old Westbury Gardens' Walled Garden, Rose Garden, South Lawn and Allée, custom-designed by lighting collective Lightswitch, culminating in a light-and-projection finale on the so
Stew Leonard's Holiday Mini-Drive Through
A free, small-scale holiday drive-through through a dedicated section of the Stew Leonard's Yonkers parking lot, aimed at young children, with thousands of twinkling lights, holiday inflatables, snowmen, cartoon characters, and Santa. The 2
🏠 Decorated home displays
The Spata House — Dyker Heights
The house that started Dyker Heights — Lucy Spata began decorating in 1986 in memory of her mother. Known for an army of large toy soldiers, two-story-tall nutcrackers, snowmen, reindeer and glowing angels; the most famo
The Polizzotto House — Dyker Heights
A custom 'Toyland' display commissioned by the late Alfred Polizzotto — an ~18-foot animated Santa, towering animatronic toy soldiers, one-ton mechanical horses, and two merry-go-rounds. Donation boxes for the American C
Glen Summer Road Christmas Lights
Long-running Holbrook neighborhood display (going since 2010); the Murphy family accepts donations for Make-A-Wish. Lit Sun-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm.
Bay Shore Christmas House
Large Bay Shore home display drawing thousands of visitors; donations benefit the Marty Lyons Foundation (wishes for children with terminal illness). Open nightly through early January.
Christmas Vacation Wonderland
Jason Orsini's 25,000+ light homage to 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'; visitors are encouraged to bring gift donations for Stony Brook Children's Hospital.
Franklin Square Christmas Display
Residential holiday light display listed among Nassau County's best on Mommy Poppins' curated go-visit roundup (2025 season).
Walsh Family Christmas House
Lynbrook home decked with lit reindeer, candy canes, Santa and a nativity scene, just north of Sunrise Highway.
Winkler Family Light Show
Display featuring a 20-minute projection show set to music; lights stay on through New Year's with new additions each year.
Schoolhouse Wonderland
Fully decked Levittown home whose owners host an annual community Christmas block party (Santa, food trucks, raffles) to support ALS.
Froehlich Family Christmas Display
East Meadow home light display set to music, listed on Mommy Poppins' 2025 Long Island roundup.
Lights to a Beat
Garden City residential display with lights synchronized to music.
Elwood Road Lights Show
Centereach home light show synced to music broadcast on 107.3 FM.
East Quogue Christmas House
East Quogue residential holiday light display on Mommy Poppins' 2025 Suffolk roundup.
Fifth Street Christmas Lights
Ronkonkoma home light display listed on Mommy Poppins' 2025 Long Island roundup.
Fabris Family Christmas Wonderland
Fabris family Centereach display with lights synchronized to holiday music.
Arlington Avenue Christmas Display
St. James residential display that appeared on ABC's 'The Great Christmas Light Fight'.
West Islip Christmas House
West Islip home display that collects donations for the Long Island chapter of Make-A-Wish.
Wichard's Winter Wonderland
Commack display run by teenager Joseph Barragato and family, raising money for St. Jude Children's Hospital.
3 Village Lights
Stony Brook residential display; the source notes a charity beneficiary announced each season.
Roy's Christmas Land
Roy Aletti's 40+ year Harrison display of ~25,000 lights built around antique 1930s-50s decorations; visited by roughly 5,000 people each season.
Peppermint Christmas
New Rochelle home in its 30th year of holiday decorating, with wreaths, trees and figurines.
Wonderland at Roseville
Gene and Mary Halliwell's Fairfield display (25th season in 2024) of more than half a million computer-controlled lights; draws 20,000-25,000 visitors a year and raises money for Shriners Children's Hospital.
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✨ Famous light streets & neighborhoods
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
America's most extravagant lights neighborhood — 100,000+ visitors a season
East 73rd Street Winter Lights (Lenox Hill)
A neighbor-funded 20+ year Upper East Side tradition — residents string the block's ~22 street trees with thousands of warm white lights into a glowing canopy
Christmas Corner (Canarsie / Georgetown)
A community-organized corner display of lights, music and mechanical scenes (Santa's workshop, reindeer, Nutcracker soldiers) donated from the Seddio Christmas House, with a public lighting ceremony each early December