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Subject Number 187-1 2025 Legal Holidays and Board Closures

Board Bulletins and Subject Numbers

Supersedes Subject Number 187-1 August 29, 2023

October 4, 2024

The following is a list of New York State's legal holidays for 2025.

Adjournment requests for religious holidays must be received at least 10 business days before the hearing so that cancellation notices can be issued. The list below includes dates that all Board locations will be closed, as well as a list of days on which the Board will be open but some or all of the hearings (as indicated) will not be held:

Board Closed
New Year's Day Wednesday, January 1
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Monday, January 20
Washington's Birthday Monday, February 17 (Observed)
Memorial Day Monday, May 26
Juneteenth Thursday, June 19
Independence Day Friday, July 4
Labor Day Monday, September 1
Columbus Day Monday, October 13
Veteran's Day Tuesday, November 11
Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 27
Christmas Day Thursday, December 25
Board Open - No Hearings (Except as Indicated)
All Offices
Passover Monday, April 14
Good Friday Friday, April 18
Rosh Hashanah Monday, September 22 (no p.m. hearings)
Tuesday, September 23
Wednesday, September 24
Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 1 (no p.m. hearings)
Thursday, October 2
Day after Thanksgiving Friday, November 28
Christmas Eve Wednesday, December 24 (no p.m. hearings)
New Year's Eve Wednesday, December 31 (no p.m. hearings)
Floating Holiday (Board Open, Regular Hearing Schedule)
Lincoln's Birthday Wednesday, February 12

Clarissa M. Rodriguez
Chair