The Christmas tree in front of Borough Hall is huge but not ginormous. Here in Brooklyn we don’t need a trillion twinkling lights. Cut-outs in the shape of stockings, stars, and moons are just right, a change from traditional ornaments, though I sincerely doubt whoever set up the tree was trying to reference Christmas’ origin as a pagan celebration.
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I watched them set it up.
http://whatyourdonotknowbecauseyouarenotme.blogspot.com/2009/12/nice-new-tree-going-up-in-front-of.html
[…] This gigantic, austere menorah, in front of the old supreme court building and next to the statue of Columbus, is named in honor of Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, radio interpreter and right-hand man to Rebbe Mechachem Schneerson, head of the Lubavitchers. Hecht died in 1990, four years before the Rebbe. There’s another, smaller menorah further down the plaza next to the Christmas tree. […]