Javier Sanchez spends his days taking calls and parking cars at the garage he manages on the Upper East Side. But when he’s not doing that, he’s parked behind a curtain. His two feet are all you can see.

“If I have too much light in here, people start to get curious and ask questions,” he said.

What You Need To Know

  • Javier Sanchez has been creating holiday villages for 13 years in the garage he runs

  • He spends months preparing everything that goes into it

  • He will spend thousands of dollars to make it possible

Ask questions about what Javier Sanchez pours his heart into. Every year he transforms part of the garage just off 79th Street and 2nd Avenue, the Continental Towers Garage, into a holiday village.

“Everyone is welcome to visit Frosty’s Village,” he said.

Frosty’s Village began when Sanchez started working at the garage 13 years ago.

“One of my coworkers suggested a train going around the garage,” he said. “An electric train in the garage. I never had one when I was a kid.”

His time growing up has lit the fuel to his holiday passion. And without kids of his own, he brings smiles to the children and everyone else who uses his garage.

Santa may work on Christmas all year long, but Sanchez comes close. Work started all the way back in April, going to his north pole in between parking cars. In the fall, he starts coming in on his days off.

Each figurine placed with purpose. Each light glued with precision. And he sprinkles the snow over the entire village.

This takes time and money.

“$2500, $3,000 maybe,” he said, estimating what he spent for this year.

But he said you can’t put a price on what the village means.

“I just can’t wait to see the children’s face coming over and enjoying,” he said. “It’s beautiful. You’ll see.”

The first day of December may have been Christmas morning at the garage, as he unveiled his 13th village.  

Hundreds of figurines, each with a purpose that helps create a world, just for the holidays.

There are dozens of electrical wires needed to make the half dozen trains move, the waterfall function and two planes flying overhead.

“It brings tears to my eyes,” Laura Sachar said, who called her sister to tell her about the display.

“Every year it gets better and better,” Neil King said, who has been using the garage for many years.

Sanchez enjoys watching everyone take it in, especially the children in the neighborhood.

That is, until he has to get back to work.