Over-the-top NYC Christmas displays draw some bah-humbugs
NEW YORK — It’s a neighbourhood Christmas display with New York City attitude: big, brash, loud and over-the-top.
Blazing lights, giant toy soldiers, angels, snowmen, wise men, Santas and piped-in Sinatra caroling form an all-out barrage on the senses from nearly every house in the heart of Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighbourhood, an annual extravaganza that draws thousands of tourists every evening by the car and busload.
But all of it has some residents just wishing for a silent night.
“As pretty as it can be, it’s difficult,” says Linda Rebmann, 72, who has lived in Dyker Heights all her life and has only an unlit cranberry wreath on her home. “It’s a little out of hand. It’s gotten to be a bit much.”