Friday, December 7, 2012

O Come, All Ye Faithful: Tree lighting at Tompkins Square Park is Sunday



From 4-5 p.m., per the sign. And don't worry — I'll have 79 more posts on the tree before the season is over...

Here are scenes from the ceremony in 2008 ... and last year .... And I made this terrible joke in 2010:

Meanwhile, this will be the last year for the tree lighting. On Jan. 3, workers will tear down the tree to make way for a new, 12-story tree. In three years, the current tree will be offered a space here, though at current market rates.

But we did almost lose the tree for real last year after Irene...

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4 comments:

  1. john penleyDecember 7, 2012 at 12:25 PM

    Question for neighborhood historians...Who were the persons who got this tree planted in TSP ? I know do you ?

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  2. blue glassDecember 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM

    A local political group at the time, the Democratic Action Club, one of whose members was a man named Albert Fabozzi; the tree was planted in memory of his lover Glenn, who died of AIDS in the early 1990s.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 7, 2012 at 5:02 PM

    i'm surprised the agnostic commie hippie crowd hasn't successfully lobbied to get the tree out of the park.

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  4. Dave on 7thDecember 7, 2012 at 8:18 PM

    @anon 5:02
    Bill O'Reilly, is that you?

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