Mount Sinai Gets 'Christmas' Back
MOUNT SINAI, NY (CBSNewYork) - The holiday tree in Mount Sinai will once again be called the Christmas tree, beginning next year.
Last week, WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs and CBS 2's Ann Mercogliano reported on the controversy over changing the name to "holiday."
The holiday tree lighting has been a tradition in Mount Sinai since 1996, and it's always been called just that.
"A Christmas tree is a Christmas tree," said David Black of Port Jefferson Station. "I want it to be called a Christmas tree. Yes, that's what it is!"
"Christmas is for everybody," a man told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs.
At last night's lighting ceremony in Heritage Park, the Heritage Trust, the group in charge of it, announced that 80 percent of the people it surveyed wanted the tree to go back to being called a Christmas tree.
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