Your Guide to Family-Friendly Day Trips in New Jersey, New York…and Beyond
If you are lucky or unlucky enough to be in NYC on December 13 this year, you can catch Santa Con. We’ve mistakenly been on NJ Transit the last few years on Santa Con day, not realizing what day it actually was. Women in micromini skirts in freezing weather dressed as an elf or Mrs. Claus (you go girl!) and men wearing onesies, you see it all.
The renovated new Tiffany’s store (aka The Landmark) reopened after extensive renovations in 2023. If you’re visiting during the holidays, do go in and look around. It is not a kid-friendly place, though, and can be tough to navigate in the crowds.
We always go into NYC the weekend after Thanksgiving. Here are some of the random things we saw.
After visiting the Macy’s holiday windows, we wandered into this Christmas carousel in Greeley Square on 32nd Street and Broadway.
There was a line waiting to get on but if you book online, there’s a shorter line. The carousel is there through January 6, 2026. It runs 10 am to 10 pm and costs $7/person.
Continue reading “Scenes from NYC during the 2025 holidays”I usually don’t love Macy’s windows, but I did this year. Macy’s 2025 holiday windows featured a lot of store firsts – the first store holiday windows, its first Santa, first Thanksgiving Day parade, and It’s A Wonderful Life being set at a (fictional) Macy’s.
Saks brought back the light show this year, and you can see the exterior covered in two-story gems. The Saks Fifth Avenue 2025 holiday windows featured both iconic designers (in single color themed rooms) and some holiday scenes that didn’t actually “sell” anything. Those holiday scenes did have moving features.
We had a good laugh at the two guys’ outfits, given the comments by our federal government, encouraging us this year to dress up for airplane travel. I don’t think either guy would qualify, even with designer sweats.
Continue reading “Saks Fifth Avenue 2025 holiday windows”This year, Bloomingdales teamed up with Burberry for their holiday windows. Even my husband could spot the store from a block away, with the big Burberry scarf (okay, it looked like a ribbon though there is a fringe at the end). Here are the Bloomingdales 2025 holiday windows.
Bergdorf Goodman has my favorite windows each year. This year did not disappoint. The theme? The Bergdorf Soirée. Each window featured a different kind of party. Here are the Bergdorf Goodman 2025 holiday windows.
We made our usual trek into NYC on Thanksgiving weekend to check out the 2024 NYC holiday windows. I have to say, other than Bergdorf Goodman, they were a disappointment. I’ll start with Bergdorf Goodman’s, and then share Macy’s and one from Bloomingdale’s. I’ll share at the bottom more about Sak’s Fifth Avenue’s windows.
AND, scroll down to see the Louis Vuitton scaffolding – which is UNREAL. A highlight of the day.
Something the kids and adults will all like: the New York Transit Museum holiday train show. It’s at Grand Central Station’s transit museum store through February 2024.
You’ll find a city within a city, with miniature electric railroads running over, through, and beneath some landmarks you’ll recognize. There are tracks at several levels, great for young kids who can see many of them from their own eye level.
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We did our annual NYC excursion on Black Friday to see the lights, the windows and the crowds. This post shares some random things we saw.
We headed to the Bryant Park Winter Village to see the holiday shops. They have a lovely tree. In addition to the skating rink, they have igloos you can rent out, and nearby curling as well (not on ice). In January they’ll have on-ice bumper cars you can rent! As always it’s crowded.
Continue reading “Holiday Scenes From NYC 2023”