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Monday, December 2 Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square : On Monday, December 2, 2013 the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and presenting sponsor Time Warner will host the Fourteenth Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square – New York’s largest holiday festival! Join legendary folk artist Arlo Guthrie, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Michael Bacon, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, and WABC-TV’s Sade Baderinwa as we welcome the holiday season and light up the Upper West Side with an evening of music, food, dancing and fun for everyone.Admission to Winter’s Eve is free, but event attendees are encouraged to bring and donate gently used or new coats of all sizes to Dante Park at 63rd Street and Broadway as part of the 25th Annual New York Cares Coat Drive. Holiday Train Show Where: The New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store, Grand Central Terminal When: 8am–8pm The New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store at Grand Central Terminal is back with its 12th Annual Holiday Train Show. The installation features Lionel trains traveling through a two-level, 34-foot-long miniature New York City and countryside scene, with the route going all the way to the North Pole, where a certain Mr. Claus is readying his holiday plans. Illustrations by artist Maira Kalman—showing characters from her book Next Stop Grand Central—will accompany the exhibition, in addition to vintage trains from the museum's collection, among them New York Central models. Kids will be doubly entertained by a visit here if they take advantage of the Grand Central scavenger hunt—pick up clues at the Transit Museum Gallery. Tuesday, December 3 Trend-ology Where: The Museum at FIT When: 8am–8pm Trends may come and go, but in the fashion industry nothing ever really goes out of style for too long. Trend-ology focuses on a 250-year old trend cycle—starting in the 18th century—and follows the emergence (and reemergence) of fads up to the present day. This exhibition features 100 influential and sometimes flash-in-the-pan pieces including a tartan dress made in the early 1800s, a chunky gold Chanel necklace inspired by late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop, and a Takashi Murakami–designed Louis Vuitton satchel that became a massive success and inspired numerous knockoffs. The show also explores how crazes develop in mediums such as art, music and film, and how fast-fashion stores like H&M and Zara have become a crucible for trends—catalyzing both their debut and demise. The exhibition runs until April 30.