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2012 A Visit with Santa Claus at Roosevelt Field Mall

A Visit with Santa Claus

From LONG ISLAND – by Ann Parry (ann-parry.com)
November 30, 2012

As the Roosevelt Field mall and the Long Island community it’s served since 1956 continue to grow and change, one of the mall’s enduring traditions is Santa Claus’s visit at the end of each year, when parents have their children’s pictures taken with him.

Nov. 21, 2012 - Garden City, New York, U.S. - Santa Claus gets a visit from PATRICK HERR, 3 1/2, from Hempstead, at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island. Parents JULIANA CARREON and ISMAEL CARREON took him to visit the jolly man at Roosevelt Field, one of the 10 largest shopping malls in the United States of America, and on the site where aviator Charles Lindbergh began his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris in 1927. (Ann Parry/Ann Parry, ann-parry.com)

Nov. 21, 2012 – Garden City, New York, U.S. – Santa Claus gets a visit from PATRICK H, 3 1/2, at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island.  (© 2012 Ann Parry/Ann-Parry.com)

This Thanksgiving week I took news photos of Santa’s visit with 3 1/2-year-old Patrick and his family. And it turns out my older daughter and her husband took their six-month-old son to visit Santa right there earlier that week.

UPDATE: This Long Island Weekly (publ. Anton Community Newspapers) cover photo is from my photo shoot of Santa and Patrick:

Cover Page Photo by Ann Parry; Long Island Weekly published by Anton News. Nov. 21, 2012 - Garden City, New York, U.S. - Santa Claus gets a visit from PATRICK HERR, 3 1/2, from Hempstead, at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island. Mom JULIANA CARREON and ISMAEL CARREON took him to visit the jolly man. (Cover photo © 2013 Ann Parry; Long Island Weekly published by Anton News)

Dec. 11-17, 2013 issue of Long Island Weekly| Garden City, NY, USA. Santa Claus gets visit from PATRICK HERR, 3 1/2, at Roosevelt Field Mall. (Cover Page photo © 2013 Ann Parry)

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2011 Flash Mob: Macy's on Long Island, NY

Flash Mob: Macy’s on Long Island, NY

From LONG ISLAND – by Ann Parry (ann-parry.com)
September 30, 2011

Music starting playing near the central cosmetics area of Macy’s in the mall, and a young woman and man rushed into an empty space in the aisle and started dancing.

The blond girl’s aqua shirt had Estée Lauder “Imagine having nothing to hide” on it, and the boy wore a white T-shirt, and after they did some particularly dashing jumps and lifts, several dozen dancers joined them.

Flash Mob dance event for Estee Lauder at Macy's in Long Island, New York, USA, on July 23, 2011. Teal shirts dancers wearing have "Imagine having nothing to hide" written on front. (Ann E Parry/Ann Parry, Ann-Parry.com)

Garden City, NY, USA. July 23, 2011. Flash Mob dance event for Estee Lauder at Macy’s. Teal shirts dancers wearing have “Imagine having nothing to hide” written on front. (© 2011 Ann Parry/ Ann-Parry.com)

So we had ourselves a flash mob, with dancers who ranged from amateurs to pros, and from a young girl around 10-years-old, to a very pregnant twenty-something, to those who were my age and beyond. They danced to Martin Solveig’s “Hello” which Flash Mob America choreographed.

And the Long Island, New York, shoppers loved it, many taking out their cell phones to photograph the 4-minutes of unexpected fun that Summer of 2011 afternoon.

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