JANUARY
4, 2007 --
The
week began December 18, when LPR noticed reindeer logs at a Columbus
Avenue Christmas tree vendor's corner on Manhattan's upper west side.
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Reindeer
logs (12/18)
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Next day, on West
57th Street, LPR saw its first Santa using a bicycle rickshaw instead
of a sleigh.
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Santa,
and rickshaw bike with one reindeer (12/19)
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The
morning of December 23, the top of the Empire State Building took
a break, by means of fog, before it again appeared as Christmas beacon.
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Empire
State Building in fog (12/23)
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But shoppers were
not taking a break, the afternoon before the day of Christmas Eve --
as this photo of the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the upper west side
indicates.
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Inside
Barnes & Noble (12/23)
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Apple
Fifth Avenue store Christmas Eve.
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Fifth
Ave on Christmas Eve, with Saks in the background
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Barnes & Noble
was closed Christmas Eve, but not the Apple store on Fifth Avenue,
filled with people, as noticed by LPR, heading to Rockefeller Center.
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Rockefeller
Center Christmas Tree, Christmas eve
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Rockefeller
Center ice-skating rink, Christmas eve
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"Matzoh
Ball" at a club on West 27th, Xmas eve
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From Rockefeller
Center, LPR took the the IRT west side subway to a "Matzo Ball" --
getting a photo of a Colorado billboard in midtown, before taking the
subway to 28th Street, which had a sign on the window of a "No Transactions" agent's
booth [for just Christmas eve?]
that reflected, more than five years later, post-9/11 security concerns.
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Seventh
Avenue billboard promoting Colorado-- Christmas Eve.
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Subway
notice -- Christmas eve
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A different message
-- "MERRY CHRISTMAS" -- was shown to LPR early Christmas morning
at the window of a Seventh Avenue bar.
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Six
people in Seventh Avenue bar, very early (1:20 a.m.) Christmas
morning.
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Christmas Day, LPR photographed
a person spending the afternoon in the doorway of a Duane Reade outlet
on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, covered by bags, container boxes
and what appears to be a baby carriage.
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Man
at drugstore entrance, Sixth Avenue, Christmas Day
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LPR concluded Christmas night with images of Lincoln Center, the New York Stock
Exchange columns and tree, the Gramercy Park Christmas tree and the
Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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Metropolitan
Opera, Lincoln Center Christmas night (Lincoln Center Christmas
tree, partially visible at
right.
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New
York Stock Exchange (right) and Stock Exchange Christmas tree,
Christmas night
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Gramercy
Park Christmas tree, Christmas night
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Port
Authority Bus Terminal, Christmas night
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The evening of December
26, LPR noticed a Christmas display -- in the courtyard of an apartment
building on Seaman Avenue in northern Manhattan -- featuring palm
trees, instead of snow. A Global Warming warning?
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Apartment
building courtyard, looking to Seaman Avenue, Inwood section
of Manhattan, night of December 26. (Inwood is at the northern
tip of
Manhattan.)
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