{"id":81194,"date":"2025-12-26T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81194\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:06:10","slug":"a-different-kind-of-holiday-hustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81194\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of holiday hustle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Christmas Day in the city doesn\u2019t always have to look like a scene from a movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">People are still on the move around the region. Transit workers, first responders, and emergency crews are on the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PIX11 News spoke to people on the holiday and found folks on a mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At Rose &amp; Joe\u2019s Bakery on 31st Street in Astoria, people stop in and find Santa Bread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201dWe do a turkey at Thanksgiving. I\u2019d say it\u2019s four or five loaves of bread,\u201d said Joe Porretto, with the third-generation family business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the Ditmars Station on the bakery block, riders were out and about for all kinds of reasons.\u00a0Hugo says he will be wearing the Santa hat for a few more days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Decorations blink from buildings as a slower-paced crowd moves. FDNY firefighters rolled on the avenue with holiday lights on the truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Along Third Avenue in Manhattan, pizza is perfect for a holiday dinner and lunch break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Christmas night falls, talk turns to leftovers and the weather headed in on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Christmas Day in the city doesn\u2019t always have to look like a scene from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38729,40114,40113,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-81194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-christmas-day","tag-emergency-crews","tag-joe-porretto","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}