Santa Has Landed: Light Decorations Across the Sound Shore [Video]

Whimsical or serene, religious or colorful, the holiday displays outside some Sound Shore homes can be seen—and in some cases, heard—well down their blocks.

Mamaroneck's Lucille Novotny was in front of Roy's Christmas Land at 65 Parsons St. in Harrison Monday evening. Viewing the lights, she enjoyed the various creatures and people that the property depicted, and said that the long icicle-like lights, which are used to depict falling snow, was a new item this year.

"It puts you in the mood of the holidays," she said of the display. "It is not tacky. They get the religious part in it also."

Without snow on the ground, the Christmas display outside of a home at the corner of Dixon and Highview St. in Rye Brook is more like a technicolor light show. A mostly melted snowman in the front lawn has a sign that reads, "Let it snow, please."

Much like with fireworks timed to music, this family has taken handmade wooden structures and characters, lights and holiday objects, and timed them to turn on and off with Christmas songs.

The secret? Drivers-by can tune in their car radio to 93.5 FM for a better understanding of what's going on. Otherwise, the various quickly blinking lights look like—at least to this reporter—something out of anime show. View the videos for a better understanding of what it looks like with and without music.

How much more would an electric bill be? Well this reporter asked just that of Tracey Schmaling at 1505 Halstead Ave. On the Mamaroneck/Harrison border, he gets a lot of driving traffic and a lot of slowing cars. This is because his house is covered with inflatables and lights. Starting the process on Black Friday, he has hung thousands of lights and expects to hang thousands more.

"This tree may have 5,000 lights on it when I'm done," he said.

He turns on the display from 4:30-10 PM and sees a $100 spike in his electricity bill.

"It's worth it because it makes people happy," he said.

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