When asked not to travel, wealthy New Yorkers stayed home for the first time during the holidays, giving up their usual vacations in exotic places.
Luxury skyscrapers do not empty and for managers, financiers and families with children who live there, the administrators of the buildings have decided to surprise them by inaugurating new rites and habits for the upcoming Christmas.
To the traditional decorations, which for this Christmas are more sumptuous than usual, made on a theme or with evergreen trees that transform the lobbies into real forests, there are added new rituals and habits to be consumed in safety, or inside the buildings themselves. residence.
Common spaces, lobbies, wellness centers and condominium rooftops are transformed to celebrate in a 'Covid-friendly' way, i.e. without having to put your nose outside the security perimeter of your property, thus avoiding ending up in the most crowded shopping streets and still breathing the typical Christmas air in Manhattan style.
Manhattan luxury condo administrators are in great turmoil involving attendants, day and night doormen, administrative and lobby assistants, baggage handlers, porters, maintenance workers, security guards, consultants and party managers to impress the remaining condos. house due to force majeure.
The New York Times reports the new phenomenon, which lists the main and most surprising news ranging from the programming of a busy schedule of
mini jazz concerts
(limited numbers, by reservation of the condominiums) that the Gallants band will play in the gigantic lobby on holidays dominated by an imposing chandelier of the One Manhattan Square, a new 80-story glass residential skyscraper that overlooks the bay of Lower Manhattan.
In several lobbies of the most prestigious skyscrapers there will be areas dedicated to children residing in the buildings who will be able to drink hot chocolate, enjoy mini marshmallows and cookies while a real Santa Claus will deliver them bags full of sweets avoiding to let them go out into the street to meet him.
Masked skyscraper teams will make sure everyone has a good time by ensuring safe distance.
Moving to Midtown, the
rooftops
of the most luxurious skyscrapers, embellished with spectacular Christmas lights, will be open in the evening to condominiums
by reservation
(with one hour slots per family) to gaze at the stars and the city skyline while eating canapés and yes they toast with champagne and cocktails.
Some administrations have also organized cable lessons (exclusively for individual skyscrapers) of American-inspired dancing by the famous and former Radio City Rockette, Alyssia Epstein.
For the luxury skyscrapers of the Upper West Side, original cooking lessons are also ready via cable or with the presence of a live chef to teach how to bake traditional Christmas cakes (with weighed ingredients and ready-made bases shipped directly to the house).
Finally, the American newspaper also reports the new initiative born this month,
'meet your neighbor'
, launched in the more than one hundred luxury residences of the sinuous 21-story Hero tower on Long Island.
Residents can get to know their closest neighbors because those who participate fill out forms with their bio and tastes in order to make friends with those with common passions.
An initiative that says a lot about how much even the wealthiest feel alone and depressed in this uncertain period.