PHOTOS: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Big Apple

Yahoo News Photo Staff • December 19, 2018

Angels hold up trumpets in the garden at Rockefeller Center leading to the popular Christmas tree. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Every year at Christmastime, New York City transforms into a veritable winter wonderland with

charming and elegant decorations that outshine 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)

Photography by Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News

The Christmas tree made of lights is seen on the marquee of Radio City Music Hall as traffic moves up Sixth Ave. in New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Giant Christmas lights line the sidewalk near Radio City Music Hall in New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

A holiday season window display at the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Ave. and 57th St. in midtown Manhattan is designed for the kid in all of us. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Christmas lights reflect off rain-slick Park Avenue outside St. Bartholomew’s Church in midtown Manhattan. The church is a popular destination for visitors during the holiday season. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

A wooden soldier stands guard outside an office building on Park Ave. in New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Pedestrians walk past a Christmas tree on Broad Street and the seasonal lights illuminating the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Arguably the loveliest Christmas tree in New York City stands in the Lotte New York Palace’s courtyard in midtown Manhattan. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Beautiful Christmas lights cover the trees in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

A holiday season window display at the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Ave. and 57th St. in Manhattan is designed for the kid in all of us. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

The Christmas tree in Madison Square Park with the MetLife Building in the background. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

A large teddy bear and Christmas lights cover the exterior of a tavern in New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

A wreath hangs on the outer wall leading to the courtyard of the Lotte New York Palace in midtown Manhattan. (Photo: Gordon

Donovan/Yahoo News)

A Christmas tree in the Winter Village in Bryant Park in the heart of New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

The empty ice skating rink at the Winter Village in Bryant Park in New York. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Reindeer made of lights stand tall on a podium outside an office building on Sixth Ave. in New York City. (Photo: Gordon

Donovan/Yahoo News)

The Christmas light display on Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City is a popular destination for tourists. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo

News)

A Christmas tree stands near the Washington Square’s arch in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Giant Christmas ornaments rest in the fountain across the street from Radio City Music Hall. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

A woman takes a photo of a window display at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Crowds fill the sidewalks near Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

The window display for the holiday season at the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Ave. and 57th St. in midtown

Manhattan. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Christmas lights cover the trees on the Park Ave. mall in front of the Helmsley Building in New York City. (Photo: Gordon

Donovan/Yahoo News)