Seasonal & Holidays
Santa Claus Is Coming To Dyckman Street: Parade, Tree Lighting, Toys
Quisqueya Plaza on Dyckman Street will host Santa and a tree lighting on Sunday. Here is what to know.
DYCKMAN, NY — Santa Claus is coming to Dyckman Street.
A holiday parade will take place in Upper Manhattan on Sunday, along with a tree lighting ceremony in the neighborhood's largest public plaza.
A Santa parade with floats will kick off at 3:30 p.m. along Sherman Avenue. The procession will be followed by a tree lighting ceremony in Quisqueya Plaza at 224-238 Dyckman St. from 5 to 7 p.m.
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The tree lighting itself will take place at 6:30 p.m.
There will also be a free toy giveaway during the ceremony.
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After temporarily being called Quisqueya Plaza during the summer of 2021 and then switching to the Dyckman Plaza that fall — the plaza on Dyckman Street between Broadway and Seaman Avenues was permanently renamed as Quisqueya Plaza by the City Council last December.
Quisqueya Plaza hosts seven different restaurants on a single block.
Quisqueya is one of the names in the Taino language for the island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is also the name of a municipality within the Dominican Republic.
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