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Celebrate all that is festive about the winter holidays in New York City with over 170 sparkling night-time images that capture the holiday spirit of all the boroughs, from intimate bars to landmark buildings.

No other American city dazzles during the winter holidays like New York, with its magical store windows, larger-than-life street decorations, and brilliant, tree-lit plazas. New York City photographer Betsy Pinover Schiff has gone uptown to Harlem, downtown to the 9/11 Memorial, and to all the boroughson foot, by subway, by double-decker bus, and on a tour boat decked with lights and garlandsto capture the city’s creative spirit.

Photographed mostly at night, scenes range from Rockefeller Center’s ice rink and a Jewish Festival of Lights ceremony, to apuppet procession and elegantly decorated homes, offering a new, intimate, and heartwarming sense of the city. The book also contains a foreword by New York Times reporter James Barron, quotesfrom notable New Yorkers, and a map of the image locations.

‘Tis the Season New York is a beautiful keepsake of the Big Apple, burnished and bedazzled during the most festive time of the year.By Betsy Pinover SchiffBetsy Pinover Schiff is a noted photographer of landscape
architecture, gardens, and travel destinations. Her photography has been
the subject of four books about New York City, as well as several exhibits in New York and Mexico.
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