a guy who roams the city impersonating a Christmas tree and an invasion of hard-drinking Santas. And she photographed some of the ways a New York Christmas is different, like carrying a tree home ...

and sold his so-called mountain oddities to citizens of New York City. (The rent he paid to do so? $1.) By 1871, Christmas had been declared a national holiday, and Carr was just one of many tree ...

In New York City, as the winter air turns ... there's one moment that signals the start of the Christmas season - the lighting of the Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree. This annual event ...