Dyker Heights Christmas Lights in Brooklyn, New York Residents of this Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood decorate their houses in over-the-top light displays and life-size characters every holiday season. Decorations usually go up the weekend after Thanksgiving. Anyone can view them between dusk to...
As such, Christmas 1945 remains one for the history books as stores stocked up, and communities ensured returning soldiers would receive gifts for the holidays. Rationing was beginning to ease, holiday lights were permitted once more, and the mood was hopeful as people started looking toward the ...
"It's always a nice show. It brightens up the avenue," Brooklyn resident Shane Williams said. "For it not to happen this year, it's a downer." "You have the tree, you have the Rockettes and then you have the Saks lighting," Midtown resident Lexi Barten said. "I ...
Read. I simply have not read enough. Don't get me wrong. I have read a lot of great books in the last couple of years--many forthcoming that I blurbed and many that hit the shelves in bookstores and I had the pleasure of interviewing the authors. But I haven't been reading writing...
So when we first subscribed to Netflix, and I spent some time searching for things that were too obscure to have been available in video rental stores, this was one of them. I found it and put it on my list, but it went into the “not currently available but one day it might be...
If you STILL haven’t done your Christmas shopping at this point, then your best best might be a gift card (and a promise to do better next year). But if you reckon you can still find what you need in the stores, head to one of theseLondon stores that have gotten all dressed up ...
Leroy and Eleanor moved to New York City where they lived at 19 Parade Place in Brooklyn in an apartment that had been rented by Eleanor’s uncle who had recently died. Leroy Anderson completedSleigh Ridehere in February of 1948. Arthur Fiedler conducted the premiere of Sleigh Ride with the...
Painter Ruth Light Braun was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1906. After graduating from high school with honor's in art, she enrolled at the Cooper Union Art College for Women in New York, where she took classes in painting and costume design. She worked as a...
Holiday shopping in New York City There are a plethora of shopping destinations New York City during the holidays, but here are my top suggestions if you’re looking to be selective! 1. 5th Avenue Start at 5th Avenue and 57th Street, working your way South. High end stores like Tiffany ...
I have to admit, if I had been hiking alone, I would have been rather intimidated by the sight of the rushing river. In my head it was a wide, lazy river I had to cross – this looked entirely different. My dry bag backpack was left home in Brooklyn, and of course camera gear an...