New Yorkers love a holiday tradition—how many times have you been to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular?—but every December, there’s always an event that feels lab-engineered to hit every nostalgic button at once. This year, it’s happening a thousand feet above Fifth Avenue, when the Empire State Building hosts screenings of two of the most beloved New York holiday movies ever made: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Elf .

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The screenings unfold inside the Empire State Building’s Observatory Experience, which already feels cinematic even without Macaulay Culkin running across midtown or Buddy the Elf sprinting through traffic. Home Alone 2 screens on December 5 and 13 at 5:45pm, while Elf plays on December 18 at 5:45p

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