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Theme: Holiday Sights. Notes by Mark Lentz.
These Nutcrackers are another long-standing Sixth Avenue Corporate Row* tradition.
The yellow ribbon was to keep people away from the base of the building, where snow from yesterday's blizzard was falling off the sides.
See also: Nutcrackers on my pBase site.
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*We define Corporate Row as the stretch of skyscrapers from 44th through the mid-50s, on the west side, created by urban renewal in the 1960's and 70's.
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