NYC holiday hours in 2026: transit, parking, trash, mail, banks and museums

• Thanksgiving Thu, Nov 26
• Christmas Eve, Day Thu, Dec 24; Fri, Dec 25
• New Year's Eve, Day Thu, Dec 31; Fri, Jan 1, 2027
• Parking and meters Suspended Nov 26 and Dec 25 (official)
• MTA plans Not announced yet
• Jan 1, 2027 parking, DSNY Not announced yet

What is confirmed, and what is not

The city has published its 2026 alternate-side parking and sanitation holiday lists, and the Federal Reserve has published its dates, but the MTA, the Postal Service and the Staten Island Ferry have not announced 2026 holiday operations (checked September 2026). So each table below has a 2026 column and a last-year column. The last year column is the 2025-26 pattern, labelled as such, and not a promise. The weekdays moved: Christmas Day and New Year's Day fell on Thursdays last year and are Fridays this year, so last year's pattern is a guide, not a forecast.

Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 26

The parade the same morning shapes the transit picture: see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade guide for the station skips and street closures.

Christmas Eve: Thursday, December 24

Christmas Day: Friday, December 25

New Year's Eve: Thursday, December 31

The transit picture for the night is in the Times Square New Year's Eve guide.

New Year's Day: Friday, January 1, 2027

What to do with this

Our advice, not the operators': treat a Sunday schedule as the likely outcome for Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and a regular or lightly reduced weekday for the two Eves, but confirm each on mta.info the week before, because the MTA posts holiday plans late. If you drive, the parking suspension covers the street-cleaning rules only: it does not cover no-standing or no-parking signs that apply every day, and the city says you can park at a No Stopping, No Standing or No Parking sign on a major legal holiday only if the rule is not normally in effect seven days a week.

• The city's alternate-side parking calendar

  It is the one list that decides whether you move your car, and it is published once a year. The 2026 calendar ends at Christmas Day; January 1, 2027 is not on it yet.

  What to know: On major legal holidays marked with an asterisk, meters are also suspended.

  NYC DOT: alternate side parking

• The MTA's holiday service pages

  Posted close to each holiday; the schedule for each date shows up there first.

  What to know: Check mta.info or the MTA app the week before; the 2026 plans are not announced yet.

  MTA: Thanksgiving 2025 service (last year)