WINDOWS INTO ♥ OF NYC XMAS

Best holiday displays and light shows

Macy’s

34th Street at Herald Square

Macy’s theme of “Give Love” is centered on its lovable reindeer, Tiptoe, celebrating the holidays with her friends, Polar Bear and Penguin. Tiptoe has been a signature character for the store since her debut at the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

All windows are 3D sculptures made of acrylic and mirrored materials and individually hand-painted. There are interactive windows with lights, face filters, ornament windows, piano buttons and karaoke.

Nordstrom 225 W. 57th St.

Nordstrom is going “Home for the Holidays,” celebrating with loved ones and embracing traditions. Decorations will be bright and sparkly, including 95,000 strings of twinkling holiday lights — with each string 50 feet long and 100 lights on each, that’s 9.5 million lights.

“If you put the strings end to end it would be 4,750,000 feet or 900 miles (about the distance from New York City to Jacksonville, Fla.),” Paige Boggs, vice president of store environment at Nordstrom, told The Post. “We really get into it!”

Saks Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue and 50th Street

Saks and Dior partnered for this year’s campaign, “Dior’s Carousel of Dreams at Saks” — which they’re calling the “most ambitious holiday windows and light show in Saks Fifth Avenue history.”

The windows portray Christian Dior’s dream journey from Paris to Saks’ hometown of New York City, featuring scenes and landmarks from both cities — including a miniature Saks Fifth Avenue building, Andrew Winton, SVP of Creative at Saks, told The Post.

The show, featuring nearly 300,000 LEDs and a medley of songs, runs daily from Nov. 21 through Jan. 5, 2024, every 10 minutes between 4:35 p.m. and 10:35 p.m., lasting three minutes and 30 seconds.

Bloomingdale’s Lexington Avenue and 59th Street

For its 92nd year of presenting holiday window displays, Bloomingdale’s is celebrating the “Best Holiday Ever” with The Carousel @ Bloomingdale’s: Wonka — inspired by the new film “Wonka” and presented in collaboration with Warner Bros.

Passersby can expect to see a chocolate fountain, trapeze movements and costumes designed by local costume designers from Broadway.

Bergdorf Goodman

754 Fifth Ave., corner of 58th & 5th streets

This year, Bergdorf is celebrating “all things bright and beautiful” with its “Isn’t it Brilliant” campaign. There are seven major window displays, each with a “different kind of brightness.” One contains six neon signs custom-made for the display.

“We never stop working on Christmas. We work on it all year,” said David Hoey, senior director of visual presentation for Bergdorf Goodman.

Hudson Yards 20 Hudson Yards, at 33rd Street and 10th Avenue

Hudson Yards will have a 32foot hot air balloon centerpiece to convey a “sense of wonder” and promote “a larger sense of exploration and discovery,” Stephanie Fink, senior vice president of marketing, partnership and events for Hudson Yards, told The Post.

“Hot air balloons symbolize a lightness often garnered from an aerial perspective,” Fink said. “As we drift off into the holiday season, there is a light, celebratory mood captured by the adventurousness of a hot-air balloon journey.”