Milan, 28 October 2026 — New York City is preparing for 2027 with a wealth of new developments, from hotel openings and major cultural projects to attractions and urban regeneration across its five boroughs. Highlights include prestigious hotels such as The Nell, the first property within Rockefeller Center, and new cultural venues such as the eagerly awaited Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx and the creative space Canyon on the Lower East Side. Leisure offerings are expanding with the opening of Etihad Park stadium for NYCFC and the floating POOL+ swimming pool at Pier 35, alongside the expansion of NYC Tourism’s flagship programmes, including NYC Hotel Week, Restaurant Week and Broadway Week.
Hotels
NYC Hotel Week SM| Citywide | January/February 2027
New York City Tourism + Conventions’ programme offers a 25% discount on standard room rates at participating hotels, with bookings available from 17 November 2026.
Row NYC | Midtown Manhattan | Opened May 2026
The largest hotel on Eighth Avenue reopened on 1 May following a multi-year renovation. The refurbished property has 1,331 rooms, public spaces and a new all-day café and bar.
Cambria Hotel New York Times Square | Times Square, Manhattan | Opened June 2026
Choice Hotels’ new property, inside a former 1920s bank in the heart of the Theatre District, has 136 rooms across 25 floors, as well as a restaurant, lounge and bar.
Sheraton Tribeca | Tribeca, Manhattan | Opened June 2026
The 369-room hotel features renovated rooms, spaces for working and socialising, meeting facilities and a Sheraton Club Lounge.
Millennium Premier Hotel New York Times Square | Times Square, Manhattan | Opened June 2026
Following a complete renovation, Millennium Premier Hotel New York Times Square has reopened with 124 refurbished rooms and public spaces, alongside a new approach to the guest experience.
Little Something NYC | Financial District | Opened June 2026
Little Something is a new 172-room hotel near The Seaport district, characterised by a quiet-luxury design combining warm woods, limestone, mosaics and burnished steel details.
The Rhyland Hotel | Flushing, Queens | Expected opening in winter 2026/2027
The only green project of its kind in Flushing, this 202-room hotel will also feature a patio, rooftop bar, restaurant, spa and fitness areas.
Viceroy Park Hotel | Nomad, Manhattan | February 2027
Viceroy will open its New York property following the restoration of the former Royalton Park Avenue. The 252-room hotel will include a pool and rooftop, a spa and a fitness centre.
Canopy by Hilton New York Midtown | Midtown West, Manhattan | Spring 2027
In the heart of the Penn District, this 365-room hotel will stand opposite Moynihan Train Hall and Penn Station, just steps from Madison Square Garden. Guests will be able to relax on the rooftop overlooking the skyline.
The Nell New York | Midtown Manhattan | Autumn 2027
The Aspen brand comes to Rockefeller Center with the complex’s first hotel. The property will feature 130 rooms and suites, almost 280,000 square metres of meeting and event spaces, two restaurants, high-end wellness services and a wine cellar.
Art and culture
Expansions and openings
Aperture | Upper West Side, Manhattan | 18 September 2026
Aperture’s new permanent home hosts its inaugural installation Aperture Loves New York, featuring photographs by Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Deana Lawson and Carrie Mae Weems.
The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante | Inwood, Manhattan | 19 September 2026
The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante has opened its doors for its inaugural season, with new productions, Broadway artists, family programmes and celebrations.
Neue Galerie | Upper East Side, Manhattan | 1° October 2026
The building, which also houses Café Sabarsky, a bookstore and a design shop, has reopened following restoration. The first exhibition, marking its twenty-fifth anniversary, is scheduled from 12 November and will include some of the collection’s most important works, including Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
National Urban League’s Urban Civil Rights Museum | Harlem, Manhattan | Autumn 2026
Housed in the National Urban League’s new Harlem headquarters, the Urban League Empowerment Center, it will be the first museum in the northern United States dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement.
The Point at Socrates Sculpture Park | Astoria, Queens | Autumn 2026
Marking Socrates Sculpture Park’s fortieth anniversary, The Point will transform approximately 4,000 square metres in the park’s southern area into a new civic space dedicated to environmental sustainability, public art and community belonging. Through long-term art commissions, educational programmes and an exhibition of sculptures by Mark di Suvero, The Point will invite visitors to experience the connections between art, place and history.
Canyon | Lower East Side, Manhattan | 2027
Canyon is a new 40,000-square-foot arts space dedicated to video, sound, performance and other time-based art forms. Founded by philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and led by former MASS MoCA director Joe Thompson, the venue will focus its opening hours on evenings, with immersive technologies and hospitality services designed to encourage visitors to spend more time with the works.
The Hip Hop Museum | South Bronx | 2027
Located south of Yankee Stadium, this space will honour the rich culture and history of the South Bronx, the birthplace of hip-hop.
Exhibitions, festivals and performances
Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony at New Museum | Lower East Side, Manhattan | Until 3 January 2027
The artist’s most extensive museum retrospective to date spans almost four decades of work through film, video, painting, sculpture and photography portraying everyday life in the Black community.
Geometries at Studio Museum in Harlem | Harlem, Manhattan | Until 31 January 2027
Geometries explores how artists use lines, shapes, patterns and spatial relationships to convey emotions, express identity and examine ideas. Featuring works by artists including Alma Thomas, Julie Mehretu, Norman Lewis and Stanley Whitney, the exhibition creates connections with mathematics, traditions, maps, textiles and the environment.
En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene) at MoMA PS1 | Long Island City, Queens | Until 8 February 2027
Teresa Margolles’ work examines transnational violence, displacement, femicide and societal neglect, with a particular focus on the border between the United States and Mexico.
Chasing Clouds at The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Upper East Side, Manhattan | Until 28 February 2027
Chasing Clouds traces how artists and photographers depicted clouds from the early nineteenth century to the 1920s, following the evolution of artistic conventions, scientific discoveries and technology. Through paintings, drawings and photographs, the exhibition explores the relationship between artistic expression and the scientific study of the sky.
Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American «Schoolgirl» Art at American Folk Art Museum | Upper West Side, Manhattan | Until 28 February 2027
The exhibition brings together around one hundred examples of embroidery, watercolours, maps and other artworks made by American girls and young women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on place and identity, it reinterprets «schoolgirl» art as an important part of American art history.
Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You at Guggenheim New York | Upper East Side, Manhattan | Until 14 March 2027
The Guggenheim presents a new series of works spanning photography, text, video and sculpture. Following the life of an unnamed federal agent through forty-two interconnected works, the exhibition explores themes including duty, loss and justice.
Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method at The Bronx Museum | South Bronx | Until 28 March 2027
Saya Woolfalk’s works explore the cosmos, humanity’s relationship with nature and collective storytelling. The exhibition-laboratory will also present material relating to the creative process and workshops led by the artist.
Mika Ninagawa: Feel the Flow(ers) at Brooklyn Museum | Prospect Heights, Brooklyn | Until April 2027
The exhibition transforms the Brooklyn Museum’s Education Gallery into an immersive environment through Ninagawa’s psychedelic photographs and Japanese manga and anime culture. With saturated colours, interactive photographic prints, performances and artistic activities, the installation invites visitors of all ages to engage with the sensory beauty of the natural world.
You Should Be Dancing: New York, 1976 and Beyond at The New York Historical | Upper West Side, Manhattan | Until 4 April 2027
The exhibition explores the birth of punk, disco and hip-hop in 1970s New York, amid the financial crisis that transformed the city into the ultimate creative centre.
Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives at Museum of Modern Art | Midtown Manhattan | Until 2 May 2027
The exhibition explores how body language and the occupation of space reflect gender dynamics and power relationships, taking as its starting point feminist artist Marianne Wex’s photographic project, begun in 1972, which documents differences in men’s and women’s gestures and postures through photographs and images drawn from the media.
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New at Whitney Museum of American Art | Meatpacking District, Manhattan | Until 10 May 2027
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New brings together around 130 works spanning the artist’s entire career, exploring his approach to Pop Art and his interest in duplication, simulation and image culture. Combining iconic paintings with drawings, prints, sculptures, films and murals, the exhibition reinterprets Lichtenstein’s work through the lens of today’s images.
Attractions, tours and leisure
NYC Must-See Week SM | Citywide | January/February 2027
New York City Tourism + Conventions’ programme offers two-for-one tickets for museums, attractions, tours and live performances.
Centre 360 | Civic Center, Manhattan | Opened June 2026
The historic cupola atop the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building is now open to the public. The free panoramic experience offers views of Lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, the East River, New York Harbor and Midtown. Free guided tours are available.
Edge Reimagined Experience | Hudson Yards, Manhattan | Opened June 2026
This summer, Edge introduced an indoor route featuring a series of immersive installations using mirrored environments, dynamic lighting, digital projections and sound to accompany visitors from the fourth-floor entrance to the observation deck on the hundredth floor.
Dogs of Central Park: A Dog-Friendly History Tour | Midtown, Manhattan
This storytelling walking tour through Central Park explores the park’s canine history, from Balto to Pinky Panky Poo, the Plaza’s first four-legged guest.
Times Travel at One Times Square | Times Square, Manhattan | Opened August 2026
The new immersive attraction explores Times Square’s history through interactive environments, including a virtual taxi ride along Broadway and 360-degree city views from the new observation deck.
Expanded Offering from New York CityPASS | Manhattan
New York CityPASS gives visitors greater flexibility, allowing them to choose five attractions from a selection of ten, including new additions Edge and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prices have also been reduced to $149 for adults and $129 for children, with tickets valid for nine consecutive days.
Magic Mike Live | Midtown, Manhattan | Opened October 2026
Magic Mike Live comes to NYC in a purpose-built venue in the heart of the Theatre District. Created and directed by Channing Tatum, the show will bring the internationally renowned production to Manhattan.
Broadway & Off-Broadway
NYC Broadway Week SM | Manhattan | January/February 2027
New York City Tourism + Conventions’ programme takes place twice a year and offers two-for-one tickets for participating Broadway shows.
Broadway | Manhattan | Ongoing
Paranormal Activity (opened 25 August 2026)
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (opened 28 September 2026)
The Imaginary Invalid (opened 22 October 2026)
Other Desert Cities (opened 18 October 2026)
860 (opened 21 October 2026)
A Few Good Men (opens 29 October 2026)
Wanted (opens 8 November 2026)
The Fantasticks (opens 16 November 2026)
Much Ado About Nothing (opens 19 November 2026)
Inter Alia (opens 1° December 2026)
Galileo (opens 6 December 2026)
Awake and Sing! (opens 7 January 2027)
Dolly: A True Original Musical (opens 19 January 2027)
Mix and Master (opens 27 January 2027)
Evita (opens 25 March 2027)
Purple Rain (opens 12 April 2027)
Paddington the Musical (opens 18 April 2027)
Gloria (opens 5 April 2027)
The Full Monty (opens 25 April 2027)
Born in the Dirt (opens 16 May 2027)
Warriors (opens April 2027)
Off-Broadway | Manhattan | Ongoing
After All These Years (opened 10 September 2026)
Becoming Hamlet (opened 10 September 2026)
Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness (opened 16 September 2026)
Midnight (opened 27 September 2026)
The Hairy Ape (opened 4 October 2026)
Anon: A Tempest at Our Kitchen Table (opened 14 October 2026)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (opened 21 October 2026)
In the Heights (opened 28 October 2026)
2:22 – A Ghost Story (opens 5 November 2026)
Imitation of Life (opens 21 November 2026)
August Wilson's Seven Guitars (opens 23 November 2026)
Kilgallen (opens 28 November 2026)
The Conversation (opens 7 December 2026)
Spring Awakening (opens 17 December 2026)
Tim and Scrooge (opens 17 December 2026)
Restaurants, nightlife and meeting and event spaces
NYC Restaurant Week SM | Citywide | January/February 2027
New York City Tourism + Conventions’ programme takes place twice a year and offers fixed-price menus at hundreds of restaurants.
Shaver Hall | Midtown, Manhattan | Opened June 2026
A new food hall has opened inside the former Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue, transforming the historic space into a culinary and social hub with more than a dozen dining concepts.
Pacha New York | Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Opened June 2026
The international brand has returned to New York with a new club in Williamsburg. The venue features immersive sound and lighting systems and a programme of international electronic music artists.
Thai Niyom | Astoria, Queens | Opened July 2026
The team behind Greenwich Village’s Top Thai has expanded into Queens with Thai Niyom, a halal Thai restaurant on Steinway Street. The menu includes pad kee mao, curry puffs and chicken khao soi, adding another internationally inspired dining destination to Astoria’s growing culinary scene.
Pony’s | Red Hook, Brooklyn | Opened August 2026
Pony’s has opened in Red Hook as a café and bar, bringing an equestrian-inspired concept to Van Brunt Street.
Elder | Hudson Yards, Manhattan | Opened August 2026
James Beard Award finalist chef Sujan Sarkar has opened Elder, a British steakhouse with Indian influences.
Crown Square Pizza | Rockaway Beach, Queens | Opened August 2026
Pizzaiolo Sean Aiken brings Detroit-style pizza to Rockaway Beach.
Matches | Greenpoint, Brooklyn | Opened August 2026
The Greenpoint Fish & Lobster team has opened Matches, whose menu includes eggs Benedict, toast, martinis and other American culinary classics.
Santuario Café | Jackson Heights, Queens | Opened August 2026
Jackson Heights has a new Colombian venue for speciality coffee, matcha, baked goods and empanadas.
Lucky Creamery | Greenpoint, Brooklyn | Opened August 2026
Lucky Creamery offers Asian-inspired ice cream flavours, including black sesame, ube brownie, mango sticky rice, Thai tea and pandan. The venue also serves smoothies, coffee, fruit teas and matcha.
El Camarón Peludo | West Village, Manhattan | Opened August 2026
Chefs Giovanni Cervantes and Tania Apolinar, from the team behind Taqueria Ramirez, have opened a wine bar serving Mexican seafood on Cornelia Street.
Straker’s | Soho, Manhattan | Opened September 2026
Following the success of its Notting Hill location, London chef Thomas Straker’s restaurant has also opened in New York.
Tracks Raw Bar & Grill | Midtown, Manhattan | Opened September 2026
Tracks Raw Bar & Grill has reopened in its original Penn Station location after seven years of closure during the station’s redevelopment. The restaurant serves seafood dishes, including raw preparations and American culinary classics.
Café Charmant | West Village, Manhattan | Opened September 2026
Eugene Remm, co-owner of The Corner Store, has opened Café Charmant, a new French seafood brasserie led by chef Jake Tyler Brodsky.
Retail
Fishs Eddy | Chelsea, Manhattan
New York homeware brand Fishs Eddy has opened its third store at Chelsea Market.
The Goods Mart | South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The Goods Mart, a convenience store with a carefully curated offering, has opened its Brooklyn flagship at Williamsburg Wharf, offering more than four hundred products from emerging and established food, beverage and lifestyle brands.
La DoubleJ | Upper East Side, Manhattan
Italian fashion brand La DoubleJ has opened its first US flagship inside a five-storey Upper East Side townhouse, featuring clothing, accessories, homeware and spaces devoted to wellness.
House of Spells | Times Square, Manhattan
The store features celebrated franchises including Harry Potter, Stranger Things, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, KPop Demon Hunters, Super Mario and Jurassic Park.
Marfa Stance | Upper East Side, Manhattan
The London brand has opened its first permanent New York store on Madison Avenue, an interactive shop where customers can explore and personalise the brand’s modular collection.
Róhe | Soho, Manhattan
The Amsterdam-based fashion brand has opened its first New York store in Soho, bringing its ready-to-wear and accessories collections to the neighbourhood.
Hermès | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Hermès has opened its first permanent boutique in Williamsburg.
Coming in 2027/2028
Sport
New York City Football Club Stadium | Willets Point, Queens | 2027
New York City FC is building Etihad Park, New York City’s first professional football stadium, scheduled to open for the 2027 MLS season. The 25,000-seat venue will include 3,700 square metres of public space, a fan area, food outlets and the Five Boroughs Food Hall, showcasing small businesses and cuisines from all five boroughs. From 2028, the stadium will also host Gotham FC.
Arthur Ashe Stadium Renovation | Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens | 2027
The US Tennis Association is self-financing an $800 million investment, the largest in US Open history, to transform Arthur Ashe Stadium and create a state-of-the-art $250 million Player Performance Center. The three-phase transformation, to be completed in time for the 2027 US Open, will include a new main entrance, renewed dining and hospitality spaces, additional courtside seating and high-end facilities for training, wellbeing and relaxation.
Art and culture
The American LGBTQ+ Museum | Upper West Side, Manhattan | 2027
The museum will be housed within The New York Historical and will be dedicated to LGBTQ+ history and culture at global, national and local levels.
The Bronx Museum Newly Renovated South Wing | South Bronx | 2027
The significant renovation undertaken by The Bronx Museum is supported by more than $42.9 million in public funding and designed by Marvel. The project will create a world-class facility to expand access to the museum’s free arts programmes.
Casa Belongó | East Harlem, Manhattan | 2027
Belongó has secured $9 million in funding from the New York State Council on the Arts to create Casa Belongó, a new East Harlem cultural hub dedicated to performance, education and community activities.
Arts of Africa Collection Renovation at Brooklyn Museum | Prospect Heights, Brooklyn | 2027
Brooklyn Museum is undertaking a $13 million renovation to create new permanent galleries for its Arts of Africa collection, transforming unused spaces into an installation of more than three hundred works from antiquity to the present. The new galleries, planned for autumn 2027, will enter into dialogue with the Egyptian collection to offer a broader, integrated view of African art.
National Black Theatre | East Harlem, Manhattan | Late 2027
The National Black Theatre has launched a major redevelopment project that will transform its current home into a new 2,300-square-metre multidisciplinary cultural facility within a mixed-use complex, dedicated to promoting Black culture through theatre.
Irish Arts Center | Midtown Manhattan | 2028
Irish Arts Center is continuing the second phase of its campus redevelopment, focusing on restoring the historic building and its wood-panelled, hundred-seat theatre. Work is expected to begin in early 2027 and finish by the end of 2028, transforming the West 51st Street building into a flexible seventy-five-seat performance space.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan | Upper West Side, Manhattan | 2028
Children’s Museum of Manhattan will relocate to the former Church of Christ, Scientist building on West 96th Street and Central Park West, in a major expansion that will almost double the museum’s floor area. The new home is expected to welcome up to 750,000 visitors annually, significantly increasing its capacity for exhibitions, educational programmes and community engagement activities.
Dominican Center for the Arts and Culture | Washington Heights and Inwood, Manhattan | Ongoing
Dominican Center for the Arts and Culture represents a $12.5 million investment to create Upper Manhattan’s first centre dedicated to Dominican culture. In collaboration with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, the project will include a museum, theatre, children’s library and exhibition spaces.
Neighbourhood investments
Gansevoort Square | Meatpacking District, Manhattan | Ongoing
Gansevoort Square envisages affordable housing, the expansion of the Whitney Museum with new spaces, improvements to the High Line and a new public space of approximately one thousand square metres.
Fifth Avenue Expansion | Midtown Manhattan | Ongoing
NYC is investing more than $400 million, including an additional $250 million, to transform Fifth Avenue between Bryant Park and Central Park into a more liveable, pedestrian-friendly boulevard, with wider pavements, shorter crossings, improved lighting and more urban greenery. The redevelopment will almost double pavement widths, reduce traffic lanes from five to three, introduce more than 230 new trees and significantly expand public spaces. Estimates suggest the investment could pay for itself within five years through increased economic activity and new jobs.
Park Avenue Redesign | Midtown Manhattan | Ongoing
NYC has unveiled an urban redesign for Park Avenue to create a greener, pedestrian-friendly avenue between East 46th and 57th Streets. The plan includes wider planted medians, new street features, greenery, pedestrian crossings and cycle lanes, with one traffic lane removed in each direction. The project integrates with the MTA’s redevelopment of the railway tunnel beneath it.
East Side Coastal Resiliency Project and Floating + POOL at Pier 35 | Lower East Side, Manhattan | 2027
NYC will open a filtered floating swimming pool at Pier 35 as part of a $1.4 billion waterfront redevelopment between East 25th Street and Montgomery Street. Works include new sports courts, playgrounds, a water play area, an amphitheatre and improved accessibility through the reconstruction of Corlears Hook Bridge and new cycle lanes.
Vale Restoration in Prospect Park | Prospect Park, Brooklyn | 2027
A $37.5 million restoration of the Vale area in Prospect Park’s north-east quadrant, marking the first major intervention in more than fifty years.
New York City Tourism + Conventions
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Sources and images: New York City Tourism + Conventions / AIGO press release. Complete editorial text in English translation; photographs supplied with the release.
