Sandi Bachom

Filmmaker, Author, Digital Journalist

Once you get past the initial embarrassment of walking out of your apartment in a Santa Claus suit for the first time, and you get a "Hi Santa!" from a similarly clad New Yorker, the day gets progressively more magical.

Nancy Ruhling

Author, 'Astoria Characters'

I look left. I look right. Curiously, the carol isn't coming from a car stereo. Or a store. I'm not Dorothy, but I stare at my shoes; will Santa and his sleigh go away if I click my bronze MBTs three times?

Zagat

Zagat.com

Slaving over a hot stove for days doesn't seem like such a joyous way to spend your Christmas, does it? Instead, let these NYC restaurants do the work...

Melissa Berkelhammer

New York fashion and lifestyle writer

Members of the Friends Committee of New Yorkers for Children helped wrap presents for children in foster care at the non-profit's ninth annual "Wrap to Rap" event, held this year at the Ainsworth.

Lauren Elyse Matison

Co-founder/Editor, offMetro.com

While the holidays can create a happy sort of stress, no one looks forward to the barrage of email blasts, pop-up ads, tweets, commercials, magazi...