Santa Claus is coming to town. Dec 19, 2010. Photo © Bruce Handy/Pablo 57 via flickr
Santa has already arrived in Coney Island! Photographer and ATZ contributor Bruce Handy spotted him on the Boardwalk on Sunday. “Not often I ask a person to pose, but hey, Santa can’t say no, that would make him a grinch,” writes Bruce. Speaking of grinches of Christmas past and present, rumor had it that Santa was holding Joe S’s piece of coal behind his back.
After attending the Salt and Sea Mission’s Christmas gathering on Stillwell Avenue, Santa returned to the North Pole to get ready for the big sleigh ride on Christmas Eve. Happy holidays, dear readers!
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Amusing the Zillion 
Left Brooklyn in 1998 ,I Regret it every day…Merry Christmas Fellow Brooklynites !!!
I’ve heard about clubs for Brooklynites who moved to Calif, Fla and elsewhere! Brooklyn is the country’s 4th largest city, so there are a lot of people from here! Merry Christmas, Rich
Now yer talkin’-
Merry Christmas everybody
(like that picture, Bruce)