Jim Dykes New York City Tours Blog

 Here's a random selection of Christmas pictures from 2023...just for fun. Bryant Park, Rock Center, SAKS Fifth Ave,, Radio City Christmas Show, Macy's, Times Sq, Grand Central, Wall Street, Washington Square, various trees.

 Spring in New York is full of school groups from all over-- East coast, west coast, midwest, south! Here are some of my happy groups at Grand Central, in Central Park and on the bus touring, St. Patrick's, the Little Island, FLAT STANLEY in the subway, etc.

 New York's dull, grey, concrete streets come alive in the Spring when the flowers and trees bloom and the fountains are turned on one by one. It adds just a bit of color to a city emerging from winter. The last few years, many hotels, stores and even churches are investing in large floral displays at their entrances. In many cases these flowers are not real but are beautiful and life-like nonetheless. For example St. Patrick's Cathedral joins the splendor of the Easter Parade and the annual St. Patrick's Parade by festooning the Cathedral's entrance with floral tributes. Last year they were a multi-colored flower display but this year's flower are all white artifucial lilies and roses and tend to go nicely with the real flowers inside the altar as well as outside decorating Rockefeller Center's gardens across Fifth Avenue. Also, the ice skating rink has been removed for the warm weather and the sunken plaza is now an open-air plaza to stroll and order food or t...