What: Holiday Window Viewing
Where: Various Locations
Who: All ages
Our view: If you live near or are visiting a big city for the holidays a fun thing to do is go and see the elaborate holiday window displays. One of the best places to do that is New York City. Holiday windows in New York are usually well worth seeing. They go well beyond your average lights, tinsel and trees. Each store's windows are decorated around a particular theme which varies from year to year and store to store, and they may even include such things as music, Disney like animatronic figures and other things. This year stores with windows worth viewing include the following:
Bloomingdales located at 1000 Third Avenue featuring holiday shopping around the globe.
Henri Bendel located at 712 Fifth Avenue featuring work of the great illustrator, Al Hirschfeld.
Lord & Taylor located at 424 Fifth Avenue featuring vintage New York City holiday scenes
Barney's New York located at 660 Madison Avenue featuring 3-D mapping,light projections, and performers from the Upright Citizens Brigade/
Macy's located at 151 W. 34th Street featuring the magic of dreams through the eyes of a young boy
Saks Fifth Avenue located at 611 Fifth Avenue featuring the Saks Fifth Avenue yeti
Bergdorf Goodman located at 754 Fifth Avenue featuring various holidays depicted in frozen dioramas of ice and snow.
Holiday displays run through early January. For more information about any of the specific displays call the specific store and/or visit their web-site. Remember that the lines to view the displays can be quite long and slow moving so you may not want to take very young children or children who are easily bored.
And that's our view. Tune in tomorrow for another Talking Topic.
