PhotoSanta Claus has a home in New York, in a colonnaded building across from Pennsylvania Station that is the city’s main post office. Every Christmas season, kindhearted New Yorkers enlist as surrogate Santas. The Studio School, as it is called, has an official address of 117 West 95th Street, but its building also encompasses No. Dr. O’Hanlon had an 8-year-old daughter who, troubled by the skepticism of her “little friends,” asked about Santa’s existence. Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services.

Source: New York Times December 25, 2017 01:18 UTC