HOLIDAY WONDER IN THE BIG APPLE.

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Like no other American city, New York dazzles and delights during the wintertime holiday season. In Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.'s Tis the Season New York, Betsy Pinover Schiff's fifth NYC-focused book, she offers an insider's view of the distinctive and unexpected ways that Christmastime is celebrated for the delight of residents and the millions of annual visitors to the city between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.

The photographs were taken mostly at night, across all five boroughs. Highlights include the familiar and the unexpected: from Rockefeller Center and the Metropolitan Museum's Neapolitan Christmas Tree, to the dinosaur topiary at the American Museum of Natural History, as well as beautifully decorated townhouses, family homes, and city parks, a New York Harbor tour-boat with live jazz and holiday garlands, and the Chanukah Festival of Lights at Grand Army Plaza on the Upper East Side.

The book also discovers the Winter Solstice Celebration at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Harlem, a horse drawn-carriage ride through Staten Island's historic Richmond Town, and a puppet procession at the Winter's Eve Festival on the Upper West Side of...