Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park 2019

Okay, I know today is Halloween BUT one of my favorite spots in the city is opening today for the winter/holiday season. Bank of America Winter Village in Bryant Park opens today! I cannot believe the time is here already for this wonderful spot to be open again. 

I have been enjoying this winter village for many years, and usually spend Christmas Eve here, which makes me feel like I am on a movie set. Christmas music playing, folks ice skating and some of the BEST hot chocolate on earth from No Chewing Allowed. They have many shops that have been here for years, but each year new vendors pop up which keep the winter village fresh. If you have never visited, I highly recommend it and skating here is cheaper than Rockefeller Center (and I think prettier too!). Here are some of the great places I have visited through the years at this wonderful holiday tradition.  The chocolate selections here are just amazing and great for grabbing a gift for the chocoholic in the family! 

Every year I look at these lights and I never buy one. This year just may be the year I break down and get one. So. Much. Fun.  

 

William Cullen Bryant for whom Bryant Park was named in 1884 was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.  She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. Two quotes from her works have become widely known: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," and "there is no there there", with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland.

Winter Village opens noon Thursday, October 31, for the 2019/2020 season. New this season: plan ahead and reserve your skate time online!

Hours
October 31, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Monday – Friday: 11am-8pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am-8pm

Many Shops are open on major holidays and after Thanksgiving will be open later than 8pm

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Bank of America Winter Village

Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park

October 29, 2016 - January 2, 2017

The park’s tree-lined paths are transformed into a fabulous holiday shopping destination with custom-designed jewel box kiosks. The vendors are some really wonderful craft people and if you are in this area, I would highly suggest you drop by and do some unique Christmas shopping. I love the fact they have heated little shops that you can pop in to do your shopping and get out of the cold December weather.  This is always one of my favorite places to check out during the holiday season.

United Leather was one of the first shops we saw and their items were gorgeous! Great colors of leather handbags at really wonderful prices. I really wished  I had needed a new one, but that wasn't the case!! 

These were terrific for the animal lover, by Its All About the Tail as the tails wagged on the clocks!

the amazing Bryant Park Hotel is up in the sky, looking very chic 

Now you know if Nutella is near me, I will find it! This stand was very busy and I can understand why!!  

Did I say there was an animal lover stand? My assistant went crazy for these and did purchase a cat clock for her son and daughter-in-law........... 

Bryant Park is just so quaint and lovely any time of year, but during the holidays, a bit extra special.  

Views...views...views....they are always amazing when in New York City.......

Another great view of the shops....also there is quite a bit of seating here and tables if you have a bite to eat or a sip of cocoa........ 

Speaking of cocoa, please stop by this stand....No Chewing Allowed.....you will thank me....oh, okay I will just say Your Welcome now ...... 

Of course, Christmas ornaments are available for purchase as they make great gifts for friends & family.

How pretty is this at night with the lovely tree and skating rink? This photo and one below is from the Bryant Park website.  

The Rink

October 30, 2016 – March 5, 2017

Daily: 8am-10pm

Holiday Shops

October 29, 2016 – November 24, 2016
Daily: 11am-8pm

November 25, 2016 – January 2, 2017
Monday - Friday: 11am-8pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am-8pm

Public Fare

October 29, 2016
11am-10pm

October 30, 2016 – March 5, 2017
Daily: 8am-10pm

All hours weather permitting

Some Holiday Shops may extend their hours from December 15 to December 30 at their own discretion.

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Tree Lighting Skate-tacular At Bank of America Winter Village

DANNY AIELLO, NANCY KERRIGAN, BRIAN BOITANO 

AND JOHNNY WEIR STAR IN FIRST-EVER TREE LIGHTING SKATE-TACULAR

AT BANK OF AMERICA WINTER VILLAGE AT BRYANT PARK 

WHAT: New to the annual Tree Lighting, Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park presents an original theatrical ice skating show, narrated by Danny Aiello and starring Olympic skating greats: Nancy Kerrigan, Brian Boitano, Johnny Weir and Davis & White.

The Tree Lighting Skate-tacular is a holiday tale about a very special family on the night before Christmas, written for Bryant Park by New York playwright Jon Caren. The show features music from Big Band Holidays, a new album by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The public can skate to live music curated by Jazz at Lincoln Center after the tree is lit.

The event, which coincides with Giving Tuesday and World AIDS Day, sustains the season of giving at Bryant Park by spotlighting Bank of America’s support of (RED). On this day, Bank of America is contributing $.30, the cost of a full day of life-changing medication, to (RED)’s fight against AIDS for every purchase made at participating Winter Village merchants with a Bank of America credit or debit card.

WHO:
• Danny Aiello—Academy Award nominated actor and native New Yorker
• Nancy Kerrigan—Two-time Olympic medalist and US National Champion
• Brian Boitano—1988 Olympic Gold Medalist, two-time World Champion and the first American skater to land a triple axel
• Johnny Weir—Two-time Olympian and three-time US Champion
• Meryl Davis and Charlie White—2014 Olympic Gold Medalists, two-time World Champions, and competitors on Dancing with the Stars
• The Haydenettes—synchronized skating team and 2015 National Gold Medalists
• Representatives from Bank of America and Bryant Park Corporation

WHEN: Tuesday, December 1, 2015

• 6:00 p.m. Skate-tacular begins
• 6:35 p.m. (approx.) Tree Lighting

The Bank of America Winter Village is one of my favorite places in the city during the holiday season! This sounds like a great event to see the fabulous tree lighting this year! 

Here are some cool items I found in the shops this year: 

This looked to die for! From Mr Puffin NYC , just one of the "many" items that are very drool worthy ! Nutella and bananas are such a great combo! 

The infinity lights were really pretty neat and I was having a hard time not purchasing one! I love color and these are for sure colorful! This is a great place to shop for unique gifts during the holiday season. 

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