Celebrate Christmas in New York Old School with Sinterklaas
Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam and before Santa Claus was Santa Claus, he was Sinterklaas. In the Netherlands, children leave their shoes out on the night of December 5th for Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) who comes to their houses and fills the shoes with chocolates and candies (or bundles of sticks for the naughty) in celebration of St. Nicholas’s Day on December 6th.
Celebrate Christmas in New York the old school way by adding a little Sinterklaas to your Holiday mix. All you really need are shoes and chocolates (traditionally, chocolates in the shape of the first initial of your name, but really any chocolate will do). Add some gingerbread or other ginger based cookies and you are most of the way towards a traditional celebration. It is a good way to start the holiday season with a celebration that brings gift giving to a smaller scale, letting you concentrate on your family and friends and reconnect with our city’s past instead of just having another weekend’s worth of shopping to do. You can even incorporate with your children the Dutch tradition of writing poems about each family member for Sinterklaas, whether the poems are silly or sincere.
Or, if you would prefer to see Sinterklaas in person and celebrate your new found holiday with others (while exploring New York’s colonial past), here are some Sinterklaas events going on this weekend:
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