Christmas in New York
By: Daniel Pool.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Christmas -- New York (State) -- New York; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
Description: In Christmas in New York, Daniel Pool takes the reader on a tour of present-day New York Christmas attractions (the Rockefeller Center tree, Fifth Avenue holiday windows, the shows, the sidewalk Santas...). He also tells little-known stories about Christmas in New York (how Maurice Sendak decades ago worked on F.A.O. Schwarz window displays; why - via Guy Lombardo - "Auld Lang Syne" became the official New Year's song; and the history of that venerable Manhattanite, Santa).

And, finally, there is a section on "The Ghosts of Christmas Past" - New York Christmas traditions of years ago. A marvelous mingling of the now and then, Pool's book conveys the true New York Christmas spirit.