The Big Apple decked out for the holidays is always thrilling. There is a mixture of over-the-top showmanship, tasteful glamour and gritty neighborhood festivity that permeates the streets and sidewalks, along with the intoxicating warm smell of roasted chestnuts combined with steam pouring up from the street grates; the noise: horns honking, voices, music, people rushing past, Salvation Army Santas ringing bells, the bite in the air as the wind whips your scarf around. Christmastime is the essence of Manhattan: bold, loud, energetic, breathtaking, overwhelming and a giant rush to all the senses.
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- Wicked Willy’s, Bleecker Street. Time flies when you’re having rum!
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- NoHo Market
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- Trees and wreaths for sale on the Lower East Side
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- Washington Square Park arch and Christmas tree, with Empire State Building in the left background. View from inside the park facing north
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- That same view at night
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- View from the front, looking in toward the park. Okay, overkill; I like this park and arch
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- Flags and skating rink at Rockefeller Center, all dwarfed by its mammoth Christmas tree
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- Rockefeller Center tree!
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- Saks Fifth Avenue puts on a cool “Snowflake and the Bubbles” laser light show beamed onto the building
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- Atlas and wreaths
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- Cartier. The red ribbon twinkles and sparkles like DIAMONDS and RUBIES
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- For those about to Rockette … we salute you!
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- Massive balls on Park Avenue
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