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This Year's Most Beautiful Christmas Windows in New York City

This Year's Most Beautiful Christmas Windows in New York City

Check out these elaborate and festive holiday and Christmas window displays in NYC's top department stores.


Every holiday season, some of the largest department stores in Manhattan unveil lavish holiday window displays. Viewing these department stores’ Christmas windows in NYC has become essential to the New York City holiday experience, whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Christmas. Seeing them is a great holiday activity for families to do in Manhattan. 

And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Manhattanite, suburbanite, or just in town for the holidays, the window displays are for everyone to enjoy. Kindra Hall, an author and Upper East Side resident, makes it a point to enjoy holiday windows with her family every year.

“Even though we are local, every year we take an evening—or five—to grab a hot chocolate from a street cart and stroll by the department stores to take in the window displays,” Hall says. “The ‘Frozen’ display in the Saks 5th Avenue window during the 2020 holidays was a welcomed sign of comfort. Yes, life was still so strange, but the windows offered a moment of normal and pure joy.”

In recent years, larger retail development sites such as Hudson Yards and Brookfield Place have been creating their own holiday window and walk-through displays, too. Shoppers from near and far can enjoy browsing for holiday gifts while taking in the beautiful luminescence that surrounds them. 

Here's what the biggest stores and shopping complexes in the borough are doing this year. Some displays are going virtual, but nonetheless the excitement and magic of the displays will still be delighting families all over New York.

The 9 Best Christmas Windows in NYC

1. Macy's Christmas Windows

151 W. 34 St., Herald Square
212-695-4400
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Macy's is always great to visit during the holidays, whether you're in town for the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony or in line to meet Santa at Santaland. Since 1874, Macy’s has created a destination with its iconic Holiday Windows, bringing the spirit of the season to life in animated fashion. This year’s window display theme is Believe. The display features the story of Tiptoe, a bright-eyed reindeer on the verge of realizing her ultimate dream to join Santa’s sleigh team and deliver magic around the world on Christmas Eve. On display through Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022.

2. Bloomingdale's Holiday Windows

1000 Third Ave., Midtown
212-705-2000
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Get your Little Brown Bag ready for holiday shopping and sightseeing! One of the most impressive department stores in the city, Bloomingdale's is not only a mecca for year-round shopping, but a great place to see a beautiful holiday-themed window display right in the heart of Midtown. This year’s holiday windows celebrate the retailer’s Give Happy holiday campaign with an explosion of colors in six holiday scenes that illuminate the store’s Lexington Avenue windows. On display through Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. 

3. Saks Fifth Avenue 

611 Fifth Ave., Midtown
212-753-4000
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Celebrate the season in style with this department store holiday window display. The windows are on display through the end of December for shoppers and passersby to see in person. And don’t miss the spectacular light show every 10 minutes starting as soon as it’s dark enough outside. 

4. Bergdorf Goodman Windows

754 Fifth Ave., Midtown
212-753-7300
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This year's holiday window theme is The Present Moment. It features colorful vignettes that depict joyous moments frozen in time where whimsical characters are seen living for the moment and in the moment. The department store also opened a holiday pop-up filled with exclusive New York-inspired novelties. A portion of proceeds from this shop will benefit City Harvest, an organization that helps feed hungry New Yorkers. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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5. Tiffany & Co. 

6 E. 57th St., Midtown
800-843-3269
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Tiffany’s is a gem of a store. While the shop is undergoing a renovation, passersby can still see a festive holiday display in the iconic jewelry store’s windows. 

6. Coach 

685 Fifth Ave., Midtown
212-758-2450
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Coach’s slogan of the season is Give A Little Love. Beautiful lights adorn the designer handbag shop’s exterior. Catch a glimpse through the windows of a heart-warming holiday animal display that features penguins and polar bears, all reminiscent of old-fashioned holiday ornaments. 

7. Prada

724 Fifth Ave., Midtown
212-664-0010
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This eye-catching window display features festive designs and products from the shop’s Glow holiday party collection. The fashion-focused display shows off crystal skirts, loafers, silver cross-body bags and many other accessories. Lots of sequin pieces are on display, too...very reminiscent of New Year’s Eve!

8. Brookfield Place Luminaries

230 Vesey St., Battery Park City
212-978-1673
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Luminaries, a mesmerizing display of colorful lanterns designed by the LAB at Rockwell Group, returns to Brookfield Place with a new experience called Maestro that allows visitors to conduct the canopy using a gesture-controlled instrument to display their own unique light shows in unison with holiday music. Maestro runs Dec. 4-7, 11-12, 16-19, from 10am-8pm. For added holiday fun, Luminaries features light shows set to holiday songs at the top of every hour, 8am-10pm through Jan. 2, 2022. Songs featured include “Silver Bells” by Tony Bennett and “Let It Snow” by Pentatonix.

9. Shine Bright at Hudson Yards

Between Tenth and Twelfth avenues from 30th to 34th streets, Hudson Yards
646-954-3155
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Presented by Wells Fargo, Shine Bright features more than two million lights illuminating The Shops, Public Square and Gardens, Edge, and Vessel. 

Main photo by Eugene Gologursky

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