NYC Holiday Decorations--More

All over the city we have found holiday decorations.  Here are some more photos.

Bvlgari

Tiffany's

Tiffany's at night

Radio City Music Hall, main lobby

At the American Museum of Natural History

At Madison Square Garden: Happy holidays from the Blueshirts

At Madison Square Garden:  Happy holidays from the Knickerbockers and some random hottie

Freezin' for a Reason--UPDATE

16 days and counting.  Tick, tock.

As of today, there are only 16 days until Greg takes the polar plunge in the Atlantic Ocean on New Year's Day.  Fortunately, Greg has acquired more essential pieces of his frosty finery, seen below.

By the way, to insure Greg does not wimp out, please consider donating $5 to Camp Sunshine for sick kids. 'Cause we are Freezin' for a Reason.  Or, to ensure Greg does not send you a photo of himself in his glacial garb, please consider a $10 donation.  Click here to ensure Greg takes the plunge and you avoid receiving a photo.

Arctic apparel for the polar plunge:  bear hat and paws

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What are you doing on January 1, 2016?

If you will be in NYC on January 1, please join Greg for the Annual New Years Day Swim hosted by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club.

That's right.  Greg has apparently lost what little of his mind he still had.  The water will be frigid, the wind will be blowing and perhaps the snow will be drifting.  

Greg already has his outfit ready.

Essential items:  Swim trunks and neoprene boots

The event is more than a great way to get the new year kicked off with a bracing Brrrrrr.  The event raises money to send families to Camp Sunshine in Maine.  

The goal this year is send more than 25 families to Camp Sunshine.

Camp Sunshine is a wish-fulfillment camp located on Sebago Lake.  It operates year-round and provides week-long, no-cost stays to families affected by life-threatening childhood illnesses.  The camp hosts families from around the U.S. and the world.  If you are familiar with the Hole in the Wall/Serious Fun Camps or Give Kids the World, Camp Sunshine shares the same important mission.  Camp Sunshine has a top overall Charity Navigator rating:  ★★★★.

Camp Sunshine:  Campers with their wish boats

Greg is not looking for donations.  However, if you want to make sure Greg does not chicken out and opt for the toes-only Chicken Dip instead of the Polar Plunge, then a small donation is welcome.

For a $5 donation, Greg promises to send you a post-plunge photo.  For a $10 donation, Greg promises not to send you a post-plunge photo.  Click here if you want to ensure Greg takes the plunge.
 

P.S.  Assuming Greg recruits a teammate, the team will need a name.  All suggestions are welcome.  The team name Major Shrinkage is already taken. 

Good morning!

Dawn today, December 16, 2015.

Sunrise.

Guerrilla Art--More

Wherever we venture in New York City, we see guerrilla art.  Here are some recent examples.

An outside elevator door on a SoHo street.  Graffiti and more.  From The Simpsons, Ralph Wiggum says, "Eat boogers, not animals."

A mural in Little Italy on a Mulberry Street wall:  Audrey Hepburn by Tristan Eaton (probably not true guerrilla art since it was painted with permission as part of the L.I.S.A. Project ("Little Italy Street Art"))

The base of a lamppost in Little Italy:  "And yet it moves", referring to the Earth after recanting the claim that the Earth moves around the Sun, not vice versa (also translated as the facts are the facts no matter what you say)

Holiday Windows: Macy's

Macy's knows holiday windows.  This year, Macy's is saluting the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas.  Check it out.

The Herald Square entrance to Macy's (complete with Charlie Brown's pitiful tree)

Winter fun

Lucy is ready to share her wisdom

Musical bedlam

The Ace scanning the skies for the Red Baron

The man in red and his all-Woodstock team

Snoopy and Friends decorating the tree

Charlie Brown and Company preparing for the big day

The pitiful tree in peril

A joyous ending:  A beautiful tree, a singing Beagle and glad tidings

NYC Holiday Decorations

From early November onward, NYC's appearance is spruced up, so to speak.  The city is adorned with, lights, trees and other sorts of seasonal decorations.  We have already seen many holiday windows and shared some photos.  Here are some other photos we want to share.  Enjoy!

Park Avenue, at 51st Street

Park Avenue at 52nd Street (Big Clay #4 by Urs Fischer)

230 Park Avenue, the Helmsley Building, bathed in red and green for the season

731 Lexington Avenue, the Bloomberg Tower (near our building)
Click here to see the tree really sparkle

Bloomberg tree at night

Bloomberg tree reflections

That is one big candy cane.  The tree must be huge!

More large candy canes at 9 West

Metropolitan Museum of Art--Holiday Decoration

Recently, we ventured to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and found a Christmas Tree decorated with all sorts of ornaments, #MetChristmasTree.  The exhibit is called the "Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche" and was first exhibited in 1957.  The website tells more of the story:

     "The Museum continues a longstanding holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a

     favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. The brightly lit, twenty-foot blue spruce

     features eighteenth-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs hovering among its boughs and groups of

     realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base."

The Met's Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche

Top of the tree

Ornaments on the tree (some are nearly 400 years old)

The Nativity