Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Solving the Great Santa Claus Mystery of Tompkins Square Park

Late last night, the rando Santa Claus looked all aglow in an upright position under the holiday tree in Tompkins Square Park, as these photos by EVG reader Jake Bowling show...
As we've been noting this week (here and here), someone brought this Santa figure to the tree in the park sometime Sunday night or Monday morning. 

At one point, Santa was standing proudly... other times, he was flat on his back, per hijinks. 

And through some detective work (our fee: $200 per day plus expenses) and some reader comments, we learned how Santa came to town to the park. (Early reports that Santa was nabbed from a lobby turned out to be incorrect.) 

This Santa had been holding forth outside East Village Social on St. Mark's Place this past holiday season. 

On Sunday night, someone from the bar transported SC to his new resting place... here's a video via Instagram showing Santa on the move (to the gentle strains of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."


Sadly, the trail ends here. Steven, our secret Santa correspondent, reports that there's no sign of the Claus in the Park today...
Hopefully, he'll be back again some day (or is that Frosty?).

8 comments:

MrNiceGuy said...

PLOT TWIST!!! it was EVS all along!!!!

What a fun ending to a really funny story that was a joy to follow all week long! This is the type of lighthearted story we need more of EVGrieve, thank you!!

(I also loved the accompanying George Harrison song... and I need to get as drunk as the camera man who took the video one of these days!)

Anonymous said...

I love it!
it warmed my heart when Santa got closer and closer to the illuminated tree awwww!!

Anonymous said...

But was this a set? Why was the park so empty?

ck said...

Love the video he should be a permanent fixture under the tree thanks guys for doing that!

Anonymous said...

Fun, sweet little mystery. I love our neighbors. I love our neighborhood. I love this blog. Please pray no more fires.

Anonymous said...

Maybe EVS Santa has gone north with Rite-Aid Santa?

Anonymous said...

Nice Rockford Files reference!

Trixie said...

Yes! @anonymous at 9:47am, $200 a day plus expenses, in this day and age? Such a deal!