Luminaries at Brookfield Place. There are three Wishing Stations located on the ground that allow visitors to send a touch-activated wish to the canopy of hundreds of suspended lanterns activating chsanges of colors.

New Year's Eve Wishing Wall in Times Square. Your wishes will be added to the confetti that flutters down in the heart of Times Square on New Year's Eve!

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree with 5 miles of LED multicolored lights and a 900-pound Swarovski crystal star.

Rockefeller Center Center’s Christmas Angels created in 1954 out of a mass of wire 76 miles long by Valerie Clarebout, American artist of British birth.

For the 11th year, Macy’s invites you to write a letter to Santa. Macy's Donates $1 to Make a Wish Foundation for every letter to Santa that you put in this big red mailbox.

Vintage bus ( 1959 ) is in service during the Holiday Nostalgia Rides on the M42 bus route, traveling both East Bound and West Bound along 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Seven-foot-tall numerals "1" and "9" on Times Square.

Saks 5th ave light show. 10-story-tall theatrical light show which lights up the entire side of the building.The show lasts a couple of minutes and happens every 10 minutes between approximately 5:00pm and 11:00pm between November 19, 2018 and January 2, 2019.

An exact replica of the Swarovski Star,designed by Daniel Libeskind specially for Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and created with 3 million Swarovski crystalsis on display

Rockefeller Center Wooden Soldier. The "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" has been in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular since 1933.

Holiday Market at the Oculus, open every day until December 31, 2018 Monday-Saturday, 10am-9pm; Sunday, 11am-7pm.

Star Boutique on Rockefeller Plaza, also designed by Daniel Libeskind.The 200-square foot shop is crystalline and star-like in form, with a faceted construction created from glass panels and video screens.

The Union Square Holiday Market in the morning. Market is open Monday - Friday 11am-8pm Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 11am - 7pm

A Callery pear,known as the "Survivor Tree" from the 9/11 Memorial. This extensively damaged tree was found in October of 2001 beneath the ruins and brought to the Nursery in the Bronx to be replanted.The tree was returned in 2010 to the National September 11 Memorial

Henri Bendel's Fifth Ave holiday window of 2018.

The Peninsula New York. The entrance to the hotel on 55th Street.The Spa at the hotel is one of the biggest in New York City and is one of only two Forbes Five Star-rated spas in the city.

Red-tail hawk in Central Park, near the Pond. December 6,2018. There are now at least 20 nests of hawks in Manhattan.

Union Square Menorah.The word “menorah” is Hebrew for “lamp,” and refers to the eight-flamed lamp that is lit on the eight nights of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. Hanukkah 2018 began in the evening of Sunday, December 2 and ends in the evening of Monday, December 10.

Christmas Holiday Decorations on Sixth Avenue.This larger-than-life-sized decoration was conceived by American Christmas CEO Fred Schwam and CCO Kent Fritzel. After the original was retired in the mid-2000s, 1221 Ave of the Americas commissioned a new display that was in line with their new green building initiative. The new LED light design debuted in 2009.

The Holiday Tree in Astor Hall at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue, New York Public Library

F.A.O. Schwarz, the famed toy seller that was founded in 1862, and closed three years ago, is now open at 30 Rockefeller Center

A snowman decoration inside the Oculus World Trade Center Transportation Hub

Diamond District, West 47th Street between Fifth and the Avenue of the Americas. US is the world’s largest consumer market for diamonds. Over 90 percent of the diamonds that enter this country go through New York City and most of them go through the Diamond District.

The Cartier Fifth Avenue Mansion, the last remaining Mansion in Midtown. In 1917 Cartier trades an exceptional $1 million natural pearl necklace for a grand neo-Renaissance style building.

The Loch in Central Park, mid-Park just north of 102nd Street. The Loch, Scottish for "lake," is partially fed by a natural watercourse, known in the 17th and 18th centuries as Montayne's Rivulet.

A Parade of twentу giant candy sculptures on view along Broadway from West 36th through West 39th streets. Candy Nations was originally created for display at the G20 Summit in Cannes, France in 2011.

Paparazzi Dogman and Paparazzi Rabbitwoman by artists Gillie and Marc installed near a 40-foot wide by 20-foot tall waterfall in McGraw-Hill Park, between 1221 6th Avenue, between 48th and 49th Streets.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sunny the Snowpal, a space-age snowgirl who helps her friends and makes sure Santa's sleigh travels safely on Christmas Eve. Sunny the Snowpal will debut as a balloon in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 22

Macy's Herald Square in New York City, one of the world's largest department stores with a turkey balloon at the 34th Street entrance.

After Ukrainian Memorial Service on November 18, 2018 at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. The weekend of Nov. 17-18 sees the culmination of events in the U.S. commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, the artificially-engineered famine which claimed the lives of millions Ukrainians in the early 1930s.

The Pool, West Side from 100th to 103rd Streets, is one of the most idyllic spots in Central Park. Central Park's designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, constructed the Pool by damming up a natural stream that was known as Montayne's Rivulet.

Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The house was built by a Dutch family in the 18th-century farming village of Flatbush.

A 10-foot-tall bear created by artist Tom Otterness hanging out in Rockefeller Center. It was auctioned at Christie's New York on yesterday as part of its 20th Century Week in New York

Mums (Korean Chrysanthemum, the latest blooming of all chrysanthemums) are blooming at Conservatory Garden, Central Park. November 7,2018

The Esplanade runs the entire length of Battery Park City, along the Hudson River from Stuyvesant High School on the north end all the way south to Historic Battery Park.

Greenacre Park, 6,300 square feet three-level vest pocket park in Midtown with a dramatic 25-foot-high waterfall was added a month ago to the National Registry of Historic Places.

Huddlestone Arch in Central Park. Built in 1866 by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. Built entirely of huge, uncut boulders, is was constructed without the use of mortar or other binding material. Only gravity and pressure keep the massive boulders in place

Carved pumpkin at Chelsea Market

The 1871 monument of Samuel F. B. Morse, by sculptor Byron M. Picket at Central Park, on Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park, surrounded by Central Park's super-popular jogging track is located between 86th and 96th and covers one eight of the park's surface.

A 26-foot-tall rose at Zuccotti Park, near 1 World Trade Center, by German artist Isa Genzken

Halloween celebrations in New York a year ago. A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a busy bike path along the Hudson River, killing eight people.It did not stop the Village Halloween Parade.

Halloween decorations on New York streets

Pumkins on New York City streets: Rockefeller center plaza, Channel Garden, Herald Square, Union Square Market.