Every year around Christmastime, New York City transforms into a veritable winter wonderland, with charming and elegant decorations that outshine the typical holiday tinsel. Enormous red ornaments outside Radio City Music Hall, tall nutcrackers outside offices on Park Avenue and tastefully adorned Christmas trees throughout Manhattan lend world-famous sights the extra touch of magic that keeps visitors returning to the Big Apple each December. (Michael Walsh/Yahoo News)

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The Christmas tree made of lights stands on the marquee of Radio City Music Hall in New York City with Rockefeller Center illuminating in the background. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Probably the loveliest Christmas tree in New York City, the tree in the courtyard of the New York Palace. Rockefeller Center beams in the background. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) A woman walks in the snow past the Christmas tree inside the Washington Square Arch in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Huge crowds fill the sidewalks surrounding Rockefeller Center leading to the Christmas Tree. (Gordon Donovan/ Yahoo News)
Giant Christmas ornaments sit in the fountain across the street from Radio City Music Hall. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Christmas lights cover the trees on the Park Ave. mall in front of the Helmsley Building in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) A woman takes a photo of the window display with her mobile device outside of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People skate in the Winter Village in Bryant Park, New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Colored lights illuminate along the bridge above E. 42nd Street at Pershing Square Plaza across from Grand Central Terminal in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Christmas wreaths hang on the walls of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Angels hold up trumpets in the Garden at Rockefeller Center. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) The Christmas light display on the outside of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Probably the loveliest Christmas tree in New York City, the tree in the courtyard of the New York Palace. Rockefeller Center beams in the background. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Large crowds fill the sidewalks outside Radio City Music Hall in New York City for the annual Christmas shows, and shopping. Photo taken with a fish eye lens. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) A visitor takes a photo of the window display with her mobile device outside of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) A person takes a photo of the Christmas tree at the Bloomberg Tower in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A wooden soldier stands guard outside the Capitol One offices on Park Avenue in New York City. Image taken with an fish eye lens. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) The beautiful lights and decorations outside the luxury hotel, The Peninsula in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Diamond studded exterior of Tiffanys on 57th St. and Fifth Ave. in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Raindrops cover the ornaments in the Garden with a relection of Rockefeller Center. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Patience sits with a wreath around his neck on the south side of the main steps of the majestic Beaux-Arts building at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) The reflection of Madison Avenue from a Christmas ornament on a wreath attached to a fence outside the New York Palace. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A wooden soldier stands guard outside an office building on Park Avenue in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Reindeer made of lights stand tall on a podium outside an office building on Sixth Avenue in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Giant Christmas lights sit along the sidewalk down the street from Radio City Music Hall. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A Christmas tree in stands in the Winter Village in Bryant Park in the heart of New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Giant candy canes hang outside an office building on W. 57th St. in New York City. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Angels hold up trumpets in the Garden at Rockefeller Center. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

 

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Photos taken December 2016 using a Canon EOS-1D X DSLR with a EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Standard Zoom Lens and a Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM Lens.