Sunday, December 12, 2021

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

The Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting took place late this afternoon... and, as we're told, the Parks Department forgot to wire the tree... and so organizers had to scramble to hire an electrician at the last minute. 

Unfortunately, the tree was already lit up at the start of the ceremonies at 4 ... and they missed the bottom portion of the tree. Perfect! 

Regardless, there was a nice-sized crowd there and we all enjoyed being together after a year off from the ceremony... look for more crowd shots tomorrow...
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 12, 2021 at 8:24 PM

    Meanwhile, this afternoon, dozens of trees were chainsawed a few blocks away today in East River Park- despite a Temporary Restraining Order, issued by the NYS Appeals Court, against this work. Hard to get into the holiday spirit when our neighborhood's biggest park is being destroyed. Where are our pols who showed up to this? Why aren't you lending your voices and power to stop this illegal destruction of our park?

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  2. Eden BeeDecember 12, 2021 at 8:34 PM

    The more messed up the better! I was cracking up the whole time. It is Tompkins after all. Next time more sinkholes please.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 12, 2021 at 8:36 PM

    Poor little half-lit tree, we love you anyway.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 12, 2021 at 8:46 PM

    as the great thomas hanks once remareked: "it's phallic, no?"

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  5. AnonymousDecember 12, 2021 at 8:56 PM

    Still love this tree

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  6. ------------mDecember 12, 2021 at 10:21 PM

    thanks to dollar-bill blasé for the destruction of mature, resilient trees - his denial of the judicial decree once again proves how corrupt he is -- unconscionable action!

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  7. AnonymousDecember 13, 2021 at 12:19 AM

    This weekend the parks department also forgot to open up all three of the Tompkins playgrounds on Saturday. So able bodied parents were jumping the fences and tossing their kiddos and strollers in. They were still locked when we stopped by again at noon!

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  8. AnonymousDecember 13, 2021 at 9:06 AM

    Even though the NYC Parks Dept is LAME, glad the ceremony went down.

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  9. AnonymousDecember 13, 2021 at 10:11 AM

    well, tonight thank god it's them instead of you

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  10. anonymousDecember 13, 2021 at 11:22 AM

    It looks like the “Charlie Brown”🌲 tree all grown up!🤣😍🌲

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  11. Fairly RidiculousDecember 13, 2021 at 11:25 AM

    This is the greatest tree since Charlie Brown’s 😆🎄


    (A TREE… not a Festivus pole! hint hint)

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  12. Jose GarciaDecember 13, 2021 at 1:20 PM

    On a related note it seems the organizers responsible for the raffle drawing might have considered gift certificates for local merchants rather then gift cards to Gap. That was embarrassing, off brand, tin ear to local history, etc. Best, JG

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