#10 dec.

Christmas garlands of a different sort hang from buildings at the junction of Clay and Findley Avenues and 167th Street, in the Bronx, December 10, 1924.

Poster for the Broadway Festival, held on December 10, 1930.

These Brooklynites use a motor scooter for their transportation to work as a strike of subway employees continued into the second day, December 10, 1957. From left: Ronnie Harron, George Nicholson, Peter Garland, and John Avildsen (yes, the future film director). Instead of pushing into whatever subway trains were still running, the quartet squeezed onto the scooter for their above-ground ride.

Even before global warming, winter offered some unseasonably mild days. On December 10, 1946, the thermometer hit 68 degrees Fahrenheit (about 20 degrees Celsius) and New Yorkers headed for the parks. This is Central Park.

The cover of the December 10, 1955 issue of the Saturday Evening Post showed a boy offering his seat on the subway to Santa. Illustration by Richard Sargent.