Tis The Season For Holiday Cheer and....

...Holiday Decorations in Your Lobby.

How big should the Christmas Tree in your lobby be? How big should it be in relation to the size of the Menorah? Should both the tree and the Menorah be lit at the same time? What about additional decorations? Who should make these decisions and since this is New York and no one is ever satisfied, who should deal with all the complaints?

Holiday decorations can easily become controversial because Christmas is both a national and religious holiday. People feel very strongly, pro and con, about all of this. There are many New Yorkers that can relay stories of screaming matches in the lobby of their buildings over the size, quantity and tone of Holiday decorations.

Some buildings have done away with it entirely, others form a committee to make the decisions and deal with the fall out.

New Yorkers are notoriously opinionated. But who knew that the holiday decor could be even more contentious than Yankees versus Mets or who makes the best bagel in town?

FYI....The Mets and H & H