Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
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#1Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:33am
My first trip to NYC during the holiday season Dec. 16 - 21. What holiday goings n do you suggest I not miss? Planning walk he window walk, RC Spectacular, and musical White
Christmas. Your thoughts? Plus seeing 8 broadways - that's a given!
#2re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 7:22pmDon't forget the Rockefeller Center Tree!
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#2re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:47pm
Bryant Park
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#3re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:49pmBe sure to catch the light show outside Saks. Quite cool, it is best if you wait until it is dark.
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#4re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:52pm
The area around the tree is a zoo & generally you cannot get anywhere near it.We still try though.
This year Christmas will be in Paris so it should prove to be a great Christmas with Midnight Mass @ Notre Dame..
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#5re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:57pmWhat's going on in Grand Central around Christmas, I was never there for it.
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#6re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 9:09pmI always found the windows at Lord & Taylor to be beautifully done. I was extra excited by the Rockefeller tree last year because it was from my town.
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#7re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 9:11pmI avoid RC at all costs at night during the holidays. It's a very unpleasant experience and I can't recommend it.
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#8re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 8:06amThanks, all, for the tips. I hope you have happy holidays in Paris or wherever you may end up. Do you think I'll be boycotted over the holdiay vs. Christmas thing?
#9re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 8:16amsomething about the tree makes me turn 6 years old again.
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#10re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 9:30amI love going to the Rockefeller Center tree lighting event.
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#11re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 9:36amWalking up 5th ave. looking at the store windows is always fun too.
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#12re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 11:07amWhen I was younger I used to love the lights of fifth avenue and the tree at Rock Center. Now that I am older, I guess living in NYC around the holidays has made me a jaded person. I don't think of it as exciting that the tree is there. I just tend to just shrug it off as no big deal.
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#13re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 11:20am
Grand Central has laser shows every half hour on the hour.
Also not to be missed, temporary Charmin bathrooms in Times Square that open today. I took my out-of-town visitors there last year and it was their favorite destination. And Duracell Lounge in the same location where you can generate some energy for the New Year sign by pedaling a bike.
#14re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 11:28amThe Saks light show is my favorite thing in the world to see. It's best if possible to get there late when the foot traffic has died down a bit and you can actually enjoy the tree and just take it all in. I could spend all night there.
#15re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 11:34am
Thank you for reminding me about the Charmin restrooms, siny. I'm going to have to visit there this year because I auditioned to be one of their ambassadors, but did not get chosen.
And thanks for mentioning Grand Central as well, whoever posted about it. I've never gone there because I figured it was just a train station and there is nothing worth looking at. Now I think I will.
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#16re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 11:43amSpend a little time browsing the arts & crafts booths - lots of them at both Bryant Park, and at the Columbus Cirlce entrance to Central Park.
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Posted: 11/23/09 at 12:30pmBryant Park and the Rockefeller Center tree. I saw both for the 1st time in 2007. I actually got teary eyed when I saw the tree. The store windows are always fun. We did a tour of them all on the night I saw the tree.
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#18re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 1:04pmLast year at Rock Center, some chick ran her damn baby stroller over my foot and then yelled at ME when I dropped the F bomb in from of her darling youngster. The tree is best from afar.
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#19re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 1:56pm
I love the giant snowflake suspended over the intersection of 5th Avenue and 57th street.
And as Eris pointed out, Lord & Taylor's windows. They are always nostalgically spectacular.
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#20re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 2:09pmMarianne - even off-season, Grand Central is much much more than just a train station!
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#21re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 2:14pm
The snowflake used to be my favorite, even more than the tree. But they changed it a few years ago.
It's still nice--nicer, I suppose--but I miss the old, low-tech one.
#22re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 2:16pmTrue, Reg - I agree. But I still like seeing it there.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#23re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 2:58pm
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#24re: Your favorite NYC holiday sights/sounds?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 3:04pmI can, and have, stood in front of the windows at Bergdorf Goodman for hours.
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