Tourists love Brooklyn’s Christmas lights tour
Tony Muia was born and raised in Brooklyn and always loved the Christmas lights of Dyker Heights, an Italian-American neighborhood where proud locals cover their homes in twinkling bulbs and fill their front yards with life-size Santas and Nativity scenes.
Now he makes his living taking busloads of tourists from around the world to see these over-the-top holiday displays, playing Frank Sinatra on the bus and ending the night with a stop for cannolis and hot chocolate.
“Rockefeller Center, forget about it! Because I’m taking you deep in the heart of Brooklyn,” he told a bus departing from Manhattan’s Union Square on a recent night.