Holiday Street Scene

Nighttime streetscape at Broadway near Union Square, Manhattan [NEX6-2312 acr(R)PScc]

'Tis the Season

Holiday street scene on Broadway near Union Square

Holiday Lights

Seasonal lighting is starting to appear around the city. This is a park at the East River co-op on Grand Street, Lower East Side.

Christmas at Stuyvesant Town

3 for 1: The Stuyvesant Town Oval on Christmas Eve

Menorah

Hanukah Menorah at Ahearn Park at the intersection of Grand Street & East Broadway

Mean Pumpkin

Halloween display, with a mean-looking pumpkin, at a favorite restaurant

Stuy Town Pumpkins

Pumpkins on the rain-soaked Stuyvesant Town oval

The Christmas tree at the Stuyvesant Town Oval. A resident told me that the star at the top is a hand-me-down that had been used on the Rockefeller Center tree in past years. Tishman-Speyer owns both properties, so, it may be true.

Selling Christmas trees on the Upper West Side (Broadway)

Looking across Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza from Central Park South towards Bergdorf Goodman and it's windows decorated with Christmas wreaths.

Friendly Santa greeting passengers outside the Transit Police office at the Columbus Circle subway station.

I took a slow bus ride down 5th Avenue this evening. Thanks to traffic, the bus stopped long enough for me to grab this shot of a couple gazing at one of the many holiday windows along the avenue.

I passed thru this park today, at Cortland St. & Broadway - just a block away from where I used to work. It's been quite a while since I've been here on a weekday.

2 for 1: Halloween on the Stuyvesant Town Oval

Urban pumpkin patch outside an office building in the Gramercy Park area.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, still decked out with Christmas wreaths - in the West Village
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

Yesterday was the last night this season for the Empire State Buildings Christmas colors (red, white & green). The top of the building is lit most of the year. The colors are changed for different holidays and events.
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

It may not be Saks Fifth Avenue, but, Frank's Bike Shop (a local Lower East Side business) puts on a wonderful Christmas display in their windows every year. This photo really doesn't do the display justice. But, while the photo itself may be unremarkable, it's special to me. It's my first done completely on a Mac (although I must admit that part of the workflow was done in a virtual Windows machine running on the Mac).
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

From this time last year, in the East Village (taken thru a bus window)
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

Radio City Music Hall 'tween the giant Christmas ornaments in front of the Exxon Building
Camera: Canon Rebel XT