December 24-25 – Yo Santa, nice sleigh! And your elf is pretty hot! Forget reindeer, chimneys and that open-air unheated sleigh; at Brooklyn’s Marcy Homes, they do Christmas with style. Santa arrived in a shiny black Bentley and handed out toys to the kids. Oh, and Santa’s little helper was Beyonce Knowles. Rapper Jay-Z, who grew up at the public housing complex, spent a good chunk of Christmas day there - expecting only to make a quick stop, he and girlfriend Beyonce ended up staying for three hours, talking and joking with the kids, and making sure that everyone got a gift. (We were hoping he'd give us that Bentley.) The visit was Jay-Z’s idea, and Beyonce tried not to upstage him, staying quietly on the sidelines. We barely noticed her….

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani is so much more organized than Jay-Z that he didn’t need to bring along any superstar helpers on Christmas eve, when he read to kids at Hale House, an organization for children whose parents cannot care for them. The program was Twas the Night Before Christmas, natch.