Holiday Guide
Storied ‘Seddio house’ holiday display to
go on in Canarsie despite pandemic
BY JESSICA PARKS
There’s one beloved holiday
tradition that the COVID-19
pandemic will not stop: former
Democratic party boss Frank
Seddio’s holiday light display
in Canarsie, which will go on
with social distancing guidelines
in place, he told Brooklyn
Paper.
“It’s time to bring some
good cheer,” Seddio said.
“This is the time to have hope
that things will turn around
and that we will be able to not
just celebrate the holiday or
celebrate our lights, but celebrate
life again.”
The lifelong Canarsie resident
and former chairperson
of the Kings County Democratic
Party has been lighting
up his Flatlands Avenue home
for over three decades — continuing
a tradition his uncle
began that is said to have inspired
the famous “Dyker
Lights” display in Dyker
Heights.
“There is no place else that
can have this kind of animated
display,” Seddio said.
The $350,000 array near
the corner of on E. 93rd Street
will mostly be left unchanged
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since last year, with 100,000
lights and over 200 animated
fi gures to see, he said.
“We pretty much kept everything
the same because of
the virus this year,” he said.
“The display is as it usually
was.”
The Seddios are dedicating
this year’s display to Frank
Scollo — the late owner of beloved
Pizza D’Amore, which
has multiple locations across
southern Brooklyn — and all
of the many New Yorkers who
have died from COVID-19.
Because of the pandemic,
the Seddios will not host an
opening ceremony or any live
performances this year, but
members of the public are
still invited to check out the
lights — as long as they social
distance and wear masks, according
to the politico.
“We have invited people to
come asking that they wear
masks,” Seddio said. “We
won’t have any of the normal
performances we have.”
After over a month of set up,
the Seddio family holiday will
turn on the light display on Dec.
6 and keep them on through
the holiday season, which will
hopefully mark the beginning
of the end of COVID-19.
“I am especially hopeful
that this will be the start of
the end of this pandemic,” Seddio
said.
A large crowd gathers at the Seddio house for the opening night of the annual light display in Canarsie in 2019.
File photo by Caroline Ourso
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