For some “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” while others are trying to get by the store windows and shoppers yelling “bah humbug!”

Hopefully this collection of events will help make your holiday season a bit more merry and bright!

Enjoy. Links and information below.

Holiday Markets
Bryant Park “Fete de Noel”
Bryant Park, 6th Avenue at 42nd Street
This Park will be transformed into a festive winter wonderland of shopping, family entertainment and seasonal dining delights. The outdoor market, known as “Fêtes de Nöel” (”the holiday shops”), echoes the French tradition of outdoor holiday season shopping. It will feature arts and crafts from more than 80 New York artists and artisans, as well as The American Museum of Natural History and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

Christmas in Little Italy
Mulberry Street bet. Canal & Broome Sts.

Union Square Holiday Market
14th - 18th Street and Broadway
Specialty merchants in this outdoor Holiday Market

Grand Central Holiday Fair
Grand Central Terminal, 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue
Specialty merchants in this indoor Holiday Market

Holiday Lights:

Bronx Zoo Holiday Lights
Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road
Bronx Zoo Holiday Lights sparkle once again with more than 140 illuminated animal sculptures plus snowflakes, star bursts, over eight miles of tree lighting, and more than two miles of architectural lighting.

Empire State Building
Fifth Ave. at 34th St.

Giant Snowflake at the corner of 57th St. and Fifth Ave.

Grand Central Terminal Holiday Laser Light Show
42nd St. and Lexington Ave.
A laser light show is projected on the famed Sky Ceiling 125 feet above the Terminal’s Main Concourse. These spectacular free shows bring the ceiling’s constellations to life in a celebration of winter, all choreographed to seasonal music.

Christmas Trees

American Museum of Natural History Tree
West 80th Street and Central Park West

Broadway Holiday Tree
Duffy Square - Broadway at 46th Street

Cathedral of St. John the Divine Peace Tree
110th St. and Amsterdam Ave.

Chorus Tree at South Street Seaport
South Street Seaport, Fulton Street

Lincoln Center Holiday Tree
Broadway and 63rd Street

Little Italy’s Most Precious Blood Church
109 Mulberry Street (bet. Canal & Hester Sts.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Christmas Tree
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road

Park Avenue Trees
Park Avenue from 97th Street to 48th Street

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
30 Rockefeller Center Plaza at 49th Street
The world’s most famous Christmas tree is a spectacular mountain of branches covered with 30,000 lights on 5 miles of wire.