Things to do on a Sunday in New York

New York City Restaurant Week is among the five boroughs’ best food holidays. Traditionally, New Yorkers (and a few lucky tourists) clear their dining schedules and make reservations at the city’s best special occasion spots, high-profile newcomers and all-time favorite restaurants for deals unseen the rest of the year. Hundreds of destinations participate citywide, with menu prices below their typical tabs. (This winter's price tiers are set at $30, $45 and $60 price tiers for two- and three-course specials during Restaurant Week Winter 2026.)

The campaign will run from Tuesday, January 20 to Thursday, February 12, 2026. That's nearly a month to choose from oodles of NYC classics and recent culinary additions. Don't feel like thumbing through 600-plus restaurants? Check out our top picks here.

Squash's most iconic professional tournament is back for its 28th edition at Grand Central Terminal. From January 22-29, the world's top players (including men's no. 1 Mostafa Asal and women's no. 1 Hania El Hammamy) will compete on a portable glass-walled court in Vanderbilt Hall for the chance to win a PSA Platinum Title and the Frank Stella Tournament of Champions trophy. For those unfamiliar, the tournament's a great way to catch up on the sport before it makes its big Olympic debut at the Los Angeles games this year. 

It’s a bonafide holiday for theatergoers when NYC Broadway Week rolls around. Broadway Week in NYC is a ticket deal offered twice a year by Broadway producers and the municipal marketing bureau New York City Tourism + Conventions. From January 20 through February 12 this year, it lets you buy two tickets to Broadway shows for the price of one—including the best Broadway shows and many Tony Award winners. The program is designed to stimulate sales during weeks when Broadway attendance traditionally dips, so everybody wins: The productions get full houses, and savvy audiences get cheap Broadway tickets.

The most popular shows sell out fast, so the earlier you buy your seats, the better chance you have of seeing your first choices. Visit the Broadway Week website to buy tickets and peruse the list of participating shows. Aim for 10am on the first day if you can, and make sure your accounts are up to date on Telecharge and Ticketmaster are up to date to make the process as fast as possible. You’ll need to use a special code to get the discount; the Broadway Week website has FAQ guidelines on exactly how to enter your discount code with each ticket vendor.

A wide variety of documentaries, narrative films and shorts awaits you at this packed festival. The 35th edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival will run from January 14 through 28 at Film at Lincoln Center, showcasing nearly 30 films via both in-person and virtual offerings that explore the Jewish experience around the world. Among this year's powerful titles: The First Lady, a daring profile on pioneering trans activist Efrat Tilma; Charles Grodin: Rebel with a Cause, a documentary on the life of the titular comedy mainstay and social activist; and Orna and Ella, Tomer Heymann’s portrait of the two women behind the landmark Tel Aviv restaurant. 

The Broadway production of Liberation, the acclaimed memory play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, is offering a family-friendly twist on one of its upcoming performances: a special Broadway Babysitter matinee on Sunday, January 25, that includes free in-home childcare for select families.

In partnership with the Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts and Media and Broadway Babysitters, attending families can apply for up to five hours of complimentary childcare for up to three children, a rare incentive for Broadway audiences that aims to make seeing theater more accessible to parents. Requests must be submitted in advance via a dedicated form, with successful applicants alerted by confirmation email and given next steps for arranging care. Availability is extremely limited and interested theatergoers are encouraged to apply quickly for a shot at the spots. 

Don't expect Bryant Park to virtually shut down once the holidays are over—at least not this year. Post New Year's, the park is shifting into full-on winter Olympics mode as Bank of America Winter Village becomes a hub for Winter Olympics–inspired fun.

Bumper cars on ice return from January 9 through February 28, letting visitors bump, spin and slide across the rink in 10-minute sessions that feel more like a carnival ride than a traditional skate (plus you're already seated, so no embarrassing tumbles).

If you ever lost an afternoon chasing ghosts, the Paley Museum has your next field trip lined up. The midtown mainstay is celebrating one of gaming’s most beloved icons with a new exhibit, “45 Years of PAC-MAN,” opening Friday, January 16 and running through May 31.

The show traces how a simple yellow circle dreamed up in Japan in 1980 by designer Toru Iwatani grew into a global pop-culture heavyweight. From early arcade cabinets to living room consoles and far beyond, PAC-MAN redefined what video games could be, while still welcoming in first-time players.

At the exhibition, visitors can jump straight into the action with classic Pixel Bash arcade cabinets, competitive rounds of PAC-MAN Battle Royale Chompionship and newer titles like PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC. There’s also a chance to tackle what the museum bills as the world’s largest PAC-MAN.

Trains and heroin. There are moments when you have to remind yourself that it’s Nia DaCosta (director) and Alex Garland (screenwriter) behind this quick-fire 28 Years Later sequel and not Danny Boyle and John Hodge reimagining that heady slice of ’90s pop-culture in a bled-out Britain. Here, though, it’s the English who are blissed-out on junk and the Scots who are the wankers. The trains are a bit more overgrown, too.

The zombies are thinner on the ground in this instalment, presumably biding their time for Danny Boyle’s threequel, and that’s okay. There’s still some hyper-kinetic action – DaCosta (Candyman) and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, mix visceral GoPro sequences with stately long shots to deliver the best-looking film in the franchise – but most of the horror plays out with sticky intimacy here as the focus switches to two humans and an Alpha. 

A fabulously malevolent Jack O’Connell is Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, introduced by 28 Years Later as a Scottish preacher’s son narrowly surviving the zombie apocalypse and as a Jimmy Savile-styled cult leader in its jarring epilogue. He roams the land with a gang of wig-and-tracksuit-wearing acolytes, executing Satanic violence on anyone they come across in the name of ‘Old Nick’. The infected aren’t the source of the greatest cruelty here. Like Christopher Ecclestone’s soldiers in 28 Days Later, humanity has reclaimed that crown. 

In cinemas worldwide Fri Jan 15.

MoMA is opening a grocery store where absolutely nothing is edible—and that’s the point. Launching on January 7, 2026, MoMA Mart is a limited-time pop-up from the MoMA Design Store that turns the mundane task of grocery shopping into a visual prank. Shelves are stocked not with snacks, but with objects that look like food at first glance and then reveal themselves as lamps, clocks, candles, stools and sculptural décor.

MoMA Mart will run from January 7 through March 29 at both MoMA Design Store locations—SoHo (81 Spring Street) and Midtown (44 West 53rd Street)—and will also be featured online, where people will be able to shop for the various items. Consider it grocery shopping for people who already have snacks—and could use a tomato lamp instead.

Oedipus is not really about the fall of a great man; rather, it’s about a great man coming to realize that he has already fallen. It is election night, the TV screen blinks with news, and Oedipus (Mark Strong) is surrounded by his family: his studious daughter Antigone (the lovely and sympathetic Olivia Reis); his twin sons, the sweet Polyneices (James Wilbraham) and the rakish Eteocles (Jordan Scowen); his sturdy old mum, Merope (Anne Reid, tasty as a crust of bread), whom Oedipus keeps blowing off. And above all there is his wife, Jocasta, who—as played by the great Lesley Manville—is a creature of effortless fascination: confident, worldly, intelligent, practical, passionate, sexually frank and a touch narcissistic, with a hint of Sphinxlike inscrutability to shroud the trauma behind her drive. Oedipus seems untouchable. But as an onstage clock ticks down to his landslide win, the earth gives way beneath him.