During the Christmas holidays the area around Rockefeller Center is even more crowded than usual. Years ago when I worked at Liberty of London as a sales lady, I worked at Rockefeller Center. It is very beautiful at night with the tree and lights. I remember my friend and I used to take our children ice skating at Rockefeller Center on occasion and I tried to teach the kids to skate holding them up with a scarf wrapped around them.

Anyway normally I don’t enjoy going into the busiest areas of New York anymore, particularly at the busiest time of day, right around 5pm. I really wanted to see the windows at Saks Fifth Avenue though and take pictures so that any readers of this blog from out of town could enjoy seeing the windows! New York does have some lovely windows during the holidays. It is always a treat to enjoy them.

Saks really did a wonderful collection of Art Deco windows. I am thrilled to be able to share this with others. I took so many photos I think first I will post the Art Deco ones from Saks. They also had several windows with fairy tale themes geared towards young ones. I will save those to combine with other fairy tale theme windows I see later on. I also saw some lovely windows at smaller stores in Soho or the West Village. Next week I am going to go to the 59^th Street area and take photos of the windows at some shops up there. Saks had a wonderful light show going on on the front of the building. After an hour of being amidst the crowds I was eager to go downtown to my favorite stomping ground and relax a bit! I do want to go back and focus on seeing that light show since the few seconds I focused on it I noticed it was quite shimmering and exciting.

I wanted to walk over to Anthropologie and see their windows while I was there as well. I found the jeweler’s shop Louis Martin and took a picture of pearls for the last post before I went to the train. There were numerous decorations all around the area and it was fun to act like a tourist for just a bit. Walking and enjoying the free sights is one of the more economically sound ways to entertain one’s self while living in NY. There are always a zillion sites to see and things to experience so that is one of the best things about New York City.

I hope you enjoy the pictures and I will take more soon and share them as well!

All material written and photos taken by: © Marilyn Lavender, 2014.  “All Rights Reserved.”