NYC Winter Lantern Festival

Staten Island, NY · Arts & Culture

When: November 20, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Where: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace · Staten Island · NY
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

An outdoor lantern display at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island, featuring large illuminated lantern sculptures across roughly seven acres of the grounds alongside live performances and food vendors. It has run seasonally since its New York debut in 2018. Dates typically span late November through early-to-mid January.

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An outdoor lantern display at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island, featuring large illuminated lantern sculptures across roughly seven acres of the grounds alongside live performances and food vendors.
Snug Harbor, the retired sailors' palace0.3 mi
A retirement home for aged seamen endowed by a shipping merchant, at its peak housing a thousand men in Greek Revival dormitories.
The first tennis in America is played at the Staten Island Cricket Club0.6 mi
Mary Ewing Outerbridge had watched British officers play lawn tennis in Bermuda, and in 1874 she and her brother Emilius strung a net on the club's grounds at Camp Washington.
Curtis High School, the first high school on Staten Island0.8 mi
Opened in February 1904, six years after the island was folded into New York City, this was the borough's first public high school.
Stapleton Heights, the hill the breweries built1.1 mi
German families ran Bechtel's, Bischoff's and the Clifton brewery that became Bachmann's along the Stapleton waterfront from the 1850s, and in 1870 Joseph Rubsam and August Horrmann took over a rival plant to found the firm that outlasted them all.