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2. The Holiday
season is in
full swing. The
likelihood of
catching a
Christmas carol
hovers near 100
percent, should you
leave your Grinchy
lair.

4. Lights on the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree: 45,000.

5. Christmas trees sold in the city that were
grown in New York: weirdly, very few.
(Most come from Canada and North Carolina,
though upstate growers (my neighbors!) hope to
squeeze in next year.)

6. Number of tourists who will
take tour buses to Brooklyn
to see the over-the-top
Christmas displays of Dyker
Heights:
6,000.

7. Weight of the
New Year’s Eve
ball:
5,386 kg.
Millions estimated
in Times Square
to see it drop:
one.

8. What does Santa Claus and/or
Christmas look like in the
Basque Country?
What traditions do you
celebrate?
What do you do on New
Years?