- Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: The iconic Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is typically over 75 feet tall and adorned with more than 25,000 lights. The tree lighting ceremony attracts thousands of visitors each year and marks the official start of the holiday season in NYC.
- Holiday Window Displays: Major department stores such as Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bloomingdale’s create elaborate holiday window displays that draw millions of visitors. Each store showcases unique themes and artistic designs, with some displays being in place since the early 1900s.
- Ice Skating Rinks: New York City features several popular ice skating rinks during the holiday season, including the rink at Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park’s Winter Village. These rinks provide a festive atmosphere and offer skate rentals alongside picturesque winter scenery.
- The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall: This annual show features the Rockettes and includes dazzling performances, elaborate costumes, and a live nativity scene. The production has been a beloved holiday tradition since it premiered in 1933.
- Dyker Heights Christmas Lights: The Dyker Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn is famous for its extravagant Christmas light displays. Homeowners go all out with festive decorations, attracting visitors who stroll the streets to admire the stunning and often competitive displays.
The big dream is always a trip to New York City. The dream becomes an unforgettable experience if you do it at Christmas. A set of magic in every corner will enthrall you, here is all there is to see…
As the two most settled years of our lives come to an end, we begin again to live lightly and happily theexperience of travel long-haul. Taking a plane and flying far away, overseas, is a common desire of almost everyone, because besides being a beautiful trip, it is also a way to completely unplug. There is one destination that never goes out of fashion, in any season is the BIG DREAM, that goal is undoubtedly New York, the big apple! At Christmas time New York has a charm all its own, no one can compete with it, we imagine it the way Christmas movies tell us about it, with the wonderful decorations, people skating on the artificial ice rinks, in the mad races of those who go in search of the last gifts for the children at Schwarz’s, or on 5th Avenue in the best boutiques with their steaming glasses of a hot take away drink and we really want to be there! Those who can, should not, really give up this trip if they have never done it, those who have already done it is the time to return. We took a virtual tour to visit New York at Christmas, here are the must-see stops…
Seeing the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
L’Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is a sight that is world-famous, a must-see attraction for those who go to New York City, but also for those who love the city and ask for all the info on the web. This tree is more than 20 meters and 7.5 meters wide and starts being prepared in mid-November. Ben 8 kilometers of lights, with 50 thousand LED lights, cover it and are lit on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving and turned off in January. The tree is lit from 6 p.m. to 0 a.m. and on Christmas Day for 24 hours, while on New Year’s Eve the lights are turned off at 9 p.m. Consider that for this dinner comes a gala dinner whose tickets all sell out in a very short time.
Ice skating at Rockefeller Center
Under theRockefeller Center Christmas tree. a beautiful ice skating rink is set up every year. The ice skating is really a very New York thing in winter, think of it as starting in October. Rockefeller Center will give you a magnificent experience where you can skate, especially during the holiday periods of November through January. Here you will not only be able to feel the most beautiful holiday atmosphere, but also see New Yorkers how they experience the holidays. It must be said, this rink is certainly not the cheapest, but if you are the one who loves everything glamorous this stop is really a must.
Stroll down 5TH Avenue in search of the most beautiful storefront
A world of wonder, the magic of Christmas shopping can all be found there, on the most glamorous and elegant street in New York, we are talking about 5TH Avenue. As soon as you set foot there you will realize that you are immediately in the right place to shop, especially when you look around. From the gilded, super-decorated antique-style storefronts by Bergdorf Goodman to the actual performance of Saks Fifth Avenue. Here it stages a veritable light show that is projected annually on one side of its main store on 5th Avenue, between 49th and 50th Streets.
Attending the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
An unfailing experience in your new york Christmas tour is undoubtedly to attend the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. This is a Christmas-themed Musical that takes place every year in New York City at the Radio City Music Hall, one of the Big Apple’s most famous theaters across from the Rockefeller Center. It is an event that has a very long historical tradition think back to 1933 and over the years has become a Christmas tradition of New Yorkers and tourists. Just think that every year they come here over a million spectators and is considered a dream for many artists who dream of being able to take part in the show. The show involves more than 140 performers, whose main characters include the female dance troupe of the Rockettes, 36 dancers who are the real stars. The entire musical runs 90 minutes, and the performers bring to the stage wonderful performances that combine singing, dancing and humor with traditional scenes.
Attend the Dyker Heights light show.
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New York City like all cities has its luminaries and those in Brooklin are really an unprecedented sight because you know Americans love to go big! In particular, there is the Dyker Heights, prestigious and elegant Brooklyn residential neighborhood, inhabited mostly by wealthy Italian-Americans, which is overrun with many visitors at Christmas in December for the famous Christmas light show. This show dates back to the 1980s when Lucy Spata decorated her house with wonderful, eye-catching luminaries. From there first her across the street then the whole neighborhood, thus began to compete by adding more and more Christmas lights, huge toy soldiers, nativity scenes, Christmas decorations, turning the whole neighborhood into a magical branch of the Santa Claus’ country! La home of Lucy Spata is still there, at 1152 84th Street is still very famous with lots of lighted angels, toy soldiers, motorized dolls and thehuge Santa Claus waving to passersby. The home of Alfred Polizzotto is located across the street, at 1145, recognizing it is easy: another giant Santa Claus, with 2 ‘toy soldiers’ about 9 meters tall moving their arms, amidst a twinkle of lights and other decorations will really make you go wow!
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