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Easter
this Year, 2011
lands on Sunday, April 24
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Spring Fling at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Saturday, April 23
10:30 am-1:00 pm
Pier 1
FREE!
Springtime means warmer weather, sunshine, chirping birds, flowers and green grass. Come celebrate the season in Brooklyn Bridge Park! The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, in partnership with Brooklyn Bridge Park, will kick-off the 2011 programming season with the 6th Annual Spring Fling.
This celebration of spring will feature Easter Bunny, AudraRox!, and Butterfly Boogie with the Wildlife Theater Company. Spot some birds with Brooklyn birdwatcher, Carolyn Murphy. Come to Pier 1 for an egg toss, egg roll, a duck race, and other games to get your feet moving! Karma Kids Yoga will also be there to help you practice your yoga poses, Ditch Plains joins the fun with tasty snacks, and New York Transit Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library will host activity tables. Rain or shine.
Schedule:
10:30-11:30 - Wildlife Theater Company's Butterfly Boogie
10:30-12:30 - Storytelling
10:30-11:00; 11:30-12:00 Birdwatching (max 30 people)
12:00-1:00 - AudraRox!
Games and activities throughout the event!
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- Barnyard Easter Egg Hunt at the Queens County Farm Museum
Saturday, April 23
The Farm Museum will hold its annual Egg Hunt in the orchard. Egg hunts will be ongoing throughout the day, "Whiskers" the bunny will be hopping around the farm to greet children and pose for pictures, bring your camera. Dance the "Bunny Hop", play egg toss and egg rolling games on the farmhouse lawn. Visit their farm animals and take a hayride. Admission: $5.00 per person
- Easter Egg Hunt at the Staten Island Historical Society
Saturday, April 23, 2:00 pm
Decorate a paper egg basket in high Victorian style. All decorations are provided. Hunt for up to 6 candy-filled eggs in an 1800s townhouse specially decorated for the season. Meet the Easter Bunny and take photos with him using your own camera. Refreshments will be served.
Recommended for children ages 3 and up.
Prepaid reservations are required, please call 718-351-1611 extension 281. $8/child, $3/adults; Members of the SIHS, $7/child, adults free.
- Annual
Easter Parade
Sunday, April 24
To begin at/around 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fifth Ave. between 49th and 57th Sts
Wacky hats and other sorts of bonnets are the rage at this
annual stroll on 5th Avenue
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Easter Fun Fest at Trinity Church
Hop down to Historic Trinity Church on Easter Sunday for Family Fun
Sunday, April 24, 2011, 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street
Free and open to all
For more information call 212-602-0800
It wouldn’t feel like Easter without an egg hunt! Trinity Wall Street invites you to celebrate on Easter Sunday, April 24th from 12:30pm- 3pm by ‘hopping’ on down to Lower Manhattan for an egg-citing afternoon of egg hunts and other family fun at Trinity Church, Broadway and Wall Street. Expect candy-filled eggs, prizes, and a photo opportunity with the Easter Bunny, along with games, crafts, a puppet parade and music. Older children can test their detective skills in a super scavenger hunt that goes on throughout afternoon.
Trinity Wall Street celebrates Easter with scavenger and egg hunts, a puppet parade, a visit from the Easter Bunny, plus lots of other family fun on Easter Sunday from 12:30pm to 3pm.
South Churchyard – 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- Three Easter egg hunts for children under 6 years old beginning at 12:30pm. Children can hunt for plastic eggs with candy inside hidden around the churchyard. Sign up for the hunt near the Root sculpture in front of the church.
North Churchyard – 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- A super scavenger hunt for kids 6 years and older that goes on throughout the event. Every child gets a prize at the end.
- Digital photos with the Easter bunny!
- Games and crafts, including making your own Easter bonnet/hat
- Music
- Easter Sunday Chocolate Tour
Easter Sunday
Join them for an Easter Sunday Chocolate Tour, savoring the best chocolates in Gramercy Park and the East Village. Purchases are optional.
You’ll start with LA Burdick, quality bunny and mouse chocolates presented in the holiday spirit. Then you’ll head to Max Brenner, a top showman who never disappoints with chocolate pizza. Next stop is Black Hound, excellent selection and highly-rated Zagat keeps the shop very busy. And lastly Bespoke, a hand-made sea-salt, caramel and pretzel with a chocolate shell is a big crowd pleaser.
To help support the good work of the Food Bank For New York City, a non-profit helping to feed the hungry, they ask for a $5.00 donation per person. 100% of donations go to charity.
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The
Annual Easter Eggstravaganza in Central Park
Sorry Folks, but it remains to be seen whether this event will be taking place this year.
Last year and the year before it didn't take place at all.
But please look below and elsewhere on this page for other
related items.
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Events
listed below provided by the official
Parks department website as well as other organizations
within NYC.
- Pysanky Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop at Pelham Bay Park within Bartow Pell Mansion
Saturday, April 2 from 11:00 am to 3:30 pm
Learn the time-honored art of creating these intricately patterned Ukrainian Easter eggs and create your own using a wax-resist techinique at this hands-on workshop. Hot wax and permanent dyes used, please dress accordingly. Recommended for mature 14-year-olds and up. Bring a bag lunch, only light refreshments offered. Space is limited. Registration required. Cost $15; members $10
- Easter Egg Hunt at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx
at Bartow Pell Mansion
April 16
10:30 am-1:00 pm
Children 2 - 12 hunt for eggs in the formal garden, tap their talent at arts and crafts tables, and have their photo taken with the Easter Bunny. Please bring your own basket. Light refreshments offered. Registration is requested. The rain date is Sunday, April 17, 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Cost children 2 - 12 $12; members $10.
- Staten
Island Historical Society Easter Egg Hunt
Saturday, April 23, 2:00 pm
Decorate a paper egg basket in high Victorian style. All decorations are provided. Hunt for up to 6 candy-filled eggs in an 1800s townhouse specially decorated for the season. Meet the Easter Bunny and take photos with him using your own camera. Refreshments will be served.
Recommended for children ages 3 and up.
Prepaid reservations are required, please call 718-351-1611 extension 281. $8/child, $3/adults; Members of the SIHS, $7/child, adults free.
- Eggstravaganza at the Staten
Island Zoo (Staten Island)
Sunday, April 10 (12:00 - 3:00 pm
Not only will there be an exploration of the great variety
of eggs which come from various animals but there will
also be kid activities in which they'll get to make a crafted
egg and take it home. Heck, that's no all! Also on hand
will be the usual egg hunt with a grand prize for each
age category. (All for an additional $5.00 Fee atop the
Zoo admission).
Note that pre-registration is requested for the egg hunt.
Seek out this page for registration info.
- Ukranian Easter Eggs
at the Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy
Saturday, April 9, 1:00 pm
For ages 8 and older accompanied by an adult. Pysanky is the Ukranian craft of decorated eggs. Come learn about the history and symbolism of this amazing art form and create your own simplified version of the craft. Adult supervision is mandatory. Registration and prepayment required. Greenbelt Conservancy members: $10.00; $12 non-members. Call (718) 351-3450
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Easter Egg Hunt St. James Recreation Center (in St. James Park), Bronx
Saturday, April 23
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Parks is pleased to present an outdoor Easter egg hunt at St. James Recreation…
- Barnyard Easter Egg Hunt Queens County Farm Museum (in Queens Farm Park), Queens
Saturday, April 23
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Bring the family for our annual Easter Egg Hunt in the orchard. Egg hunts will be ongoing…
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Hippity Hop Into Spring at Conference House Park Conference House Park Visitors Center (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
Saturday, April 23
12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Please join us at the Conference House Park for the annual Easter Egg Hunt! Bring…
- Annual Easter Event at Detective Keith L. Williams Park (in Detective Keith L Williams Park)
Saturday, April 23
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Come join us for a free day of crafts, games, face painting, giveaways and an Easter egg hunt!
- Spring Eggstravaganza at the Queens Zoo
53-51 111th St. in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
April 23 - 24, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Visit the Zoo for an egg-stravagant Easter event! Take part in an egg hunt, meet the Easter Bunny, and enjoy a variety of spring-themed activities.
Their popular annual egg workshop is back! Children can create colorful patterns on their eggs with tissue paper, glitter, glue and paint and build a nest for decorated eggs with twigs, feathers, and clay. Please bring two hard-boiled eggs per child. Recommended for ages 4 and up.
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Please, if you know of an Easter related event in NYC which most folks would be interested in then please let us know. But it must be verifiable.
Contact New Yorked:
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Holy Services
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
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Easter Service Schedule
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan, announces their service schedule for Easter week.
Palm Sunday, April 17
8:00 am, Holy Eucharist
9:00 am, Holy Eucharist with Hymns and Sermon
11:00 am, Palm Procession and Choral Eucharist
4:00 pm, A Meditation on the Passion of Christ: Readings and Music for Holy Week
Maundy Thursday, April 21
8:00 am, Morning Prayer
5:00 pm, Evening Prayer
7:00 pm, Maundy Thursday Liturgy
9:00 pm, Annual reading of Dante’s Inferno
12:00 am, Vigil in the Baptistery
Good Friday, April 22
8:00 am, Morning Prayer
12:00 pm, The Good Friday Liturgy
2:00 pm, Stations of the Cross (in English and Spanish)
5:00 pm, Evening Prayer
7:00 pm, Blues for Good Friday: Jazz Meditations
Holy Saturday, April 23
7:00 pm, The Great Vigil of Easter and Choral Eucharist
Easter Day, April 24
8:00 am, Holy Eucharist
11:00 am, Festival Eucharist of Easter (Passes are required, please call (212) 316-7490 for a reservation)
4 pm, Sung Eucharist |
Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel
- Palm Sunday
Denomination: Episcopal
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street, and Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street
Phone Number: 212-602-0800
Sunday, April 17, 2011
8:00 am - Holy Eucharist
10:45 am - Procession starts at St. Paul’s Chapel to Trinity Church
11:15 am - Service at Trinity Church (Webcast at trinitywallstreet.org)
Holy Eucharist at St. Paul’s Chapel (8:00 am)
Palm Sunday Liturgy and Procession
A combined service featuring a spirited procession down Broadway from St. Paul’s Chapel (Broadway & Fulton Street) to Trinity Church (Broadway at Wall Street). Service begins at St. Paul’s at 10:45AM with blessing of the palms and then proceeds to Trinity Church.
Webcast from Trinity begins approximately at 11:15 am with The Liturgy of the Passion and the Eucharist.
Music:
Offertory Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David – Thomas Weelkes
Communion Anthem: Tristis est anima mea – Francis Poulenc
Performers: The Trinity Choir, Family Choir, Chapel Singers, and Trinity Youth Chorus
Conducted by Julian Wachner
Contact Information: Call Trinity Church at 212-602-0800 for more information. |
Trinity Church - Easter
Broadway at Wall Street
Phone Number: 212-602-0800
Sunday, April 24, 2011
9:00 am and 11:15 am
A festive celebration of the Eucharist with Easter hymns and other music.
Music:
Gloria and Sanctus & Benedictus from the Sommerville Mass – Julian Wachner
Offertory Anthem: Lasst uns erfreuen – Julian Wachner
Communion Anthem: Alleluia – Randall Thompson
Post – Communion Music: Hallelujah Chorus - G.F. Handel (Choir and Congregation sing this together)
Performers:
9:00AM – Trinity Choir, Family Choir, and Trinity Youth Chorus
11:15AM – Trinity Choir & Family Choir
Contact Information: Call Trinity Church at 212-602-0800 for more information |
Easter – St. Paul’s Chapel
Broadway and Fulton Street
Phone Number: 212-602-0800
Event Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Time: 8:00 am and 10:00 am
A simple, but festive celebration of the Eucharist with Easter hymns.
Music:
Easter Morrow by Toinot Arbeau arr. by Wood
Come Ye Faithful by R.S. Thatcher
Performers:
The Chapel Singers
Contact Information: Call Trinity Church at 212-602-0800 for more information |
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