Maybe this year we wish each other, "Okay Holidays!"
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Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, Christmas drenches New York in its festiveness; a lights-and-holly cityscape that recalls thousands of movies and makes everything you do outside feel a little unreal. This year, of course, it feels extra unreal. I couldn’t quite believe the gigantic trees being installed in the lobbies of empty office buildings around Wall Street. There were reindeer projections dancing across the floor of the Oculus that was so spookily empty I felt like the Christmas music should be playing at quarter-speed. Decorations always feel like party preparation, building up to some kind denouement, but this year the buildup has no drop.
Maybe this year we wish each other, "Okay Holidays!"
Maybe this year we wish each other, "Okay…
Maybe this year we wish each other, "Okay Holidays!"
Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, Christmas drenches New York in its festiveness; a lights-and-holly cityscape that recalls thousands of movies and makes everything you do outside feel a little unreal. This year, of course, it feels extra unreal. I couldn’t quite believe the gigantic trees being installed in the lobbies of empty office buildings around Wall Street. There were reindeer projections dancing across the floor of the Oculus that was so spookily empty I felt like the Christmas music should be playing at quarter-speed. Decorations always feel like party preparation, building up to some kind denouement, but this year the buildup has no drop.