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The Holiday Spirit Around Town

A large building with many lights on the outside.
17
Dec

…and a few special links.  

The Solow Building, 9 W57th Street (the best surface for skating!)

A large building with many lights on the outside.
A group of people sitting on steps next to trees.

The approach…

The Exxon Building, 1251 6th Avenue

A fountain with red balls in the middle of it.

Trump Tower, 721 Fifth Avenue. 

A building with lights on it's side
A building with a large sign on it's side.

Barneys, 660 Madison Avenue, used celebrity chefs for their window dressing.  The men are in a food fight which Mario Batali appears to have lost, his head on a platter surrounded by orange crocs.

A group of people sitting around a table with food.
A group of people sitting in front of a window.

Here are the women, who display more decorum.  Though someone appears to be in the oven underneath Martha Stewart. Weird.

The Pulitzer Fountain in front of The Plaza, 768 Fifth Avenue.

A fountain with lights in the middle of it
A large nutcracker statue in the middle of a lobby.

Nutcracker on 6th Avenue

Bryant Park’s blue lighted tree…

A christmas tree is in the middle of an outdoor walkway.

Rockefeller Center

A christmas tree is lit up in the middle of a city.
A statue of a man in the middle of a circular area.

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The Snowflake hanging over Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, and the Crown Building

A building with a large yellow and white building in the background.

Midtown Lobby Trees

A tall christmas tree with red and gold decorations.

The Exxon Building
1251 6th Avenue…

A christmas wreath with gold and red decorations.

The Bertelsmann Building, 1540 Broadway

A christmas tree with red and white decorations.
A christmas tree with many decorations in the middle of a building.

The Millennium Hotel, 145 west 44th Street

The New York Public Library…

A large christmas tree in front of an archway.
A bird sitting on top of a christmas tree.
A bird sitting on top of a nest in the snow.
A large metal structure in the shape of a menorah.

Happy Hanukkah…

A building with the word " believe " written on it.

Macy’s dual holiday theme is Miracle on 34th Street and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus. Unfortunately, there was too much reflection in the windows to get good pictures… 

A christmas tree with a clock on top of it.

But I remembered last year that Justin Ferate, preeminent NYC tour guide and selfless clearinghouse of all the best information, had forwarded this video of Virginia O’Hanlon reading the response she received to the letter she wrote to Frank Church in 1897, the editor of The Sun.  She went on to receive her doctorate from Fordham University and wrote a dissertation on the importance of play in children’s lives. She eventually became a junior principal in Brooklyn at PS 401. Here’s the short letter she wrote that would elicit perhaps the most famous editorial of all time.

Dear Editor:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘if you see it in The Sun it’s so.’  Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
                                                                                                Virginia O’Hanlon
115 West Ninety-fifth Street

Virginia O’Hanlon herself, in her 70s, reading the letter Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus in 1961…(Vintage WTEN) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zUv0FRcBk>

A building with the word " believe " on it.

And, if you like Christmas music, more gratitude to Justin Ferate for sending this link via Patricia Myers.  O Holy Night, sung by Bryn Terfel. If you right click and open the the link in a new window you can then come back and look at the rose window (below) in Saint John the Divine.  They go well together…

<http://www.wqxr.org/articles/album-week/2010/dec/12/bryn-terfels-carols-and-christmas-songs/>

A stained glass window with jesus in the center.

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    Wow. Spectacular photos. And, I'd be lying if I didn't confess to shedding a tear or two listening to Virginia read the response she received to her letter.

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