There’s even a section for cat lovers, with statues inspired by Instagram-famous felines. There’s a pathway of illuminated discs that change color as you walk along it, and you can ride on a “moonbeam” swing. Chinese lanterns are scattered throughout.
LuminoCity is actually three cities in one: Winter Fantasy, which features a 13-foot-tall frozen unicorn and a nearly 30-foot-high twinkling castle Wild Adventure, with animatronic dinosaurs and lush, prehistoric-looking greenery and the sugar-themed Sweet Dream, which boasts a doughnut tunnel Homer Simpson would love.
She says that while she found the south Brooklyn display “joyous,” she couldn’t help but recall the annual light festivals she’d grown up with. “During my first holiday season in New York, I went to check out the Dyker Heights lights,” Xiaoyi Chen, the Chinese-born Pratt graduate, tells The Post. And nearly all of it is handmade, by 43 artisans flown in from Zigong City, who spent three months hand-dyeing and gluing the installations.
Inspired by its 29-year-old co-founder’s memories of the lantern festivals in her Zigong, China, hometown, this interactive attraction covers nearly 700,000 square feet of Randall’s Island. More than 10,000 LED light bulbs make up the LuminoCity Festival. A few miles north of the holiday madness of Midtown comes a dazzling new light show.
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