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Ten Days in New York for Christmas with Two Children and a Working-Actor Husband: Part the Second

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Days 2 & 3: Rockefeller Center and NYFD It seems my days leading up to Christmas were a delicate balance between enjoying the very adult New York I remembered while searching desperately for the kid-friendly New York that would keep my children from throwing themselves in front of subway trains. Now, I'm not saying there isn't anything for little ones to do in the Big Apple, but when I typed children's activities NYC  (or some similar prompt) in the Google search box it seemed as if the same ten things kept popping up, most of which were seasonal, and I was in the wrong season.  The tree at the Americana in Glendale, CA with 15,000 twinkling lights, 10,000 ornaments and a superimposed Kringle Sebastian and Maxwell may have bah humbugged the Christmas tree at the Metropolitan Museum ( refer to last entry ), but it was a new day, the sky had cleared and I was determined to impress my kids with the Christmas tree of all Christmas trees. That's right, the