See the Holiday Windows in New York City

Only a handful of department stores in New York City still create them — but the ones that do go all out.

It was go time.

Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday night, security teams raced across Fifth Avenue with police barricades, closing off one of New York City’s main arteries to traffic. A grand piano was wheeled into position in front of the dark Saks Fifth Avenue facade between 49th and 50th Streets.

And then: Elton John.

Dressed in a teal jacket, red track pants and his signature red-tinted glasses, he waved to the crowd thronging the barricades from the passenger seat of a glowing purple golf cart as it conveyed him

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